2020 Beringer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Estates Selection Knights Valley 2020 Beringer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Estates Selection Knights Valley This approachable and delicious Cabernet Sauvignon is a generous Bordeaux blend, with soft and silky tannins and a plush, full mouth-feel. Although this wine is built to age and develop further complexity, the generous and juicy upfront [...]
2018 Domaine Huet Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Vouvray 2018 Domaine Huet Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Vouvray Offers a big, broad feel, with layers of glazed pear, apple and peach falling over each other, backed by fresh ginger, honeysuckle and quince notes. Everything pulls together through the finish, with green tea accents and racy minerality providing the foil. [...]
2018 Chateau Gruaud-Larose Sarget De Gruaud-Larose Saint-Julien 2018 Chateau Gruaud-Larose Sarget De Gruaud-Larose Saint-Julien Red colour with purple highlights, limpid and brilliant. The nose is very open, precise, with notes of blackberries, black fruit jelly, elderberry juice, fresh oak and spices. On the palate, the attack is frank. The 2018 wine offers fresh fruit and [...]
Champagne Laurent-Perrier Champagne Brut La Cuvee Champagne Laurent-Perrier Champagne Brut La Cuvee The wine from France comes from the purest grape juice and it alone allows Laurent-Perrier to craft ‘La Cuvée’, a champagne of great finesse and a beautiful freshness obtained after a long ageing process in our cellars. Pale gold in color. Fine bubbles [...]
With a brilliant red colour slightly amber with time exuberant in its fragrance of fruit and spices of great body full and velvety with a long final taste of goudron and spices.
2020 Cline Cellars Pinot Noir Fog Swept 2020 Cline Cellars Pinot Noir Fog Swept; Sonoma County, California Winemaker Notes; The 2020 Cline Pinot Noir has sumptuous flavors of raspberry, lilacs, and dark chocolate, with subtle hints of vanilla and toasted oak. This wine makes an ideal companion to foods like lamb, braised meats, or duck. [...]
Tasting notes : The particular mineral component of the Bussia terroir gives the wine great structure and intense color clean and enveloping tannins with a long and consistent a ertaste. On the nose the scents of red fruits such as raspberry and very ripe pomegranate blend well with spicy and balsamic notes.
Soft gentle and rich this is made for drinking now with Cabernet-friendly foods. It offers blasts of blackberry and cherry pie currant licorice and sweet cedar flavors wrapped into fine tannins. The blend is made from all five classic Bordeaux varieties based on Cabernet Sauvignon.
The nose is exceptionally perfumed with an abundance of complex red and dark berry fruit violets and intense aromas of white pepper. Dark brooding fruit follows through onto a structured opulent palate with notes of cardamom cumin cloves and black pepper. The midpalate is rich textured and balanced with integrated acidity cocoa powdery tannins and [...]
2018
2018 Faust The Pact 2018 Faust The Pact This 2018 wine comprises carefully selected fruit some of the best parcels across our Coombsville Estate. The position of these sites within the caldera play an essential role in shaping the highly nuanced character of this wine. The polished expression of black currant and blue fruits are [...]
2019 Joseph Faiveley Gevrey-Chambertin 2019 Joseph Faiveley Gevrey-Chambertin The old vines are over 35 years old and produce an exceptionally intense and aromatic wine that reflects the unique character of its terroir. With its deep, clear ruby red hue, this 2019 wine reveals notes of black fruits and excellent strength and concentration. As with all [...]
2017 Artesa Pinot Noir Estate Reserve 2017 Artesa Pinot Noir Estate Reserve Delicate, crunchy red fruit is lifted by a floral accent in this estate-farmed 2017 wine. Crushed rock and iron components add complexity and texture to a rounded, rich and balanced expression of the variety. Artesa Over 25 years ago, Spain’s oldest winemaking family, [...]
Complex ruby red color limpid and brilliant. On the nose scent of small fresh fruits and light morello cherry together with hints of blackberry and black cherries followed by a pleasant hint of vanilla. Good intensity and fragrance. On the palate it is warm soft with medium structure and balanced tannins. The wine is harmoniously [...]
2019 Capuano-Ferreri Chassagne-Montrachet Cuvee Prestig 2019 Capuano-Ferreri Chassagne-Montrachet Cuvee Prestig Precise, crisp, ripe citrus fruits and a nice contrast of spice and cream. French toast and buttered peaches, this is a flavoursome and nutty white Burgundy. Fresh style with excellent length. White Wine The white wines that are made in Central Italy are not flashy [...]
2016
2016 Ixsir Rouge El 2016 Ixsir Rouge El Clean and elegant. Bold fruit (cherry, blueberry), black pepper, cinnamon, herbaceous mint note, high acidity, firm tannins and a good finish. Solid, and built to last. Look forward to revisiting in 5 years. Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon is the world’s foremost red wine-grape variety. Though widely cultivated [...]
2017 Chateau Doisy-Vedrines Barsac 375ML 2017 Chateau Doisy-Vedrines Barsac 375ML A nice, unctuous version in the making, with apricot, melon and peach flavors laced with hazelnut and almond cream notes. A flash of green tea adds intrigue. Barrel Sample: 92-95 94 James Suckling: Wow. This is really energetic and lively with a spicy and smoky [...]
2019 Colin Barollet Savigny-Les-Beaune 2019 Colin Barollet Savigny-Les-Beaune; Cote de Beaune, France A wine of elegance, finesse, and balance. Pinot Noir is the dominant red wine grape of Burgundy, now adopted (and extensively studied) in wine regions all over the world. The variety’s elusive charm has carried it to all manner of vineyards.These extend from western [...]
Brilliant golden robe. Attractive complex nose of acacias white flowers lemon and a touch of honey. Light fruity mouth with flavors of candied fruits and dry apricots. Long on the palate with backbone reflecting good acidic balance. Excellent ageing potential.
2018 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Roche Roulee 2018 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Roche Roulee Intense yellow colour, indicating some ripeness. Fully open, it is clear that this wine benefits from more bottle age now. The nose shows nice ripe Riesling aromas, honey, white fruits and citrus. These vineyards produce a generous style of wine, clearly demonstrated in the 2018 [...]
2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Franca 2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Franca One of a series of single-varietal wines from this producer, this wine celebrates one of the essential grapes of the Douro region. It is a balanced, rich, black-fruit dominated, while also succulent wine. Generous tannins have been softened by the wood aging into [...]
San Valentino has always aimed at the quality of its products and today produces excellent and completely organic wines.
2018 Antinori Toscana Tignanello 3.00L 2018 Antinori Toscana Tignanello 3.00L The 2018 (made with Sangiovese and smaller parts Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc) is a dark, exuberant and inviting wine. I tasted my sample after a double decanting and was pleased by the profound nature of the wine and the immediate openness of the aromas. [...]
2017 Iron Horse Classic Vintage Brut 2017 Iron Horse Classic Vintage Brut This 2017 vintage is considered the “flagship” of the Iron Horse bubblies as it shows everything the family strives to accomplish, striking memory bells that say “champagne” in quality and finesse, but with flavors that are unmistakably Sonoma County, Russian River, Green Valley [...]
2019 Joseph Drouhin Volnay Clos Des Chenes 2019 Joseph Drouhin Volnay Clos Des Chenes This 2019 wine is one you don’t see very often – and really that’s no surprise as they own only 0.2 hectares, but this is a wine every bit as good as its better-known stable-mates. The vines are 30 to 45 [...]
2018 Flowers Chardonnay Camp Meeting Ridge 2018 Flowers Chardonnay Camp Meeting Ridge Vibrant aromas of lemon peel and orange blossom highlight the season maintaining the focus on fruit purity of the 2018 Camp Meeting Ridge Chardonnay. The palate is rich, full-bodied yet elegant with beautiful hints of fresh lemon, orange blossom and dried lemon peel. [...]
With a brilliant red colour slightly amber with time exuberant in its fragrance of fruit and spices of great body full and velvety with a long final taste of goudron and spices.
2018 Les Cailloux Chateauneuf-Du-Pape 2018 Les Cailloux Chateauneuf-Du-Pape A floral scent which is both fruity and honey-like, a mineral taste with viscosity in the finish, this wine will surprise you by its complexity and evolution of these aromas all throughout the tasting. The 2018 vintage with exceptional climatic conditions, allowed the Roussanne to fully express [...]