Cabernet Sauvignon
SAVE 26% 92pts Wine Spectator
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 [...]
2015 Ixsir Red Grande Reserve 2015 Ixsir Red Grande Reserve A complexity of aromas with red fruits, blackberry liqueur, touches of incense, and notes of mint and cedar sap. The palate of this 2015 vintage is enriched by a suave and intense nose of rich mineral tension that is characteristic of limestone terroirs. A fresh [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
2019 Joseph Drouhin Beaune Greves 2019 Joseph Drouhin Beaune Greves A slightly more complex if less elegant nose presents notes of both various red berries and plenty of floral elements. The delicious, generous and mouthcoating medium-bodied flavors of this 2019 wine possess focused power on the compact, firmly structured and mildly austere finale. I very [...]
2019 Joseph Drouhin Chambolle-Musigny 2019 Joseph Drouhin Chambolle-Musigny Fine lace and silk are the words most often associated with this wine. Bright, intense colour and complex aromas evoking violet, black cherry and damp earth. According to the vintages, there are also notes of truffle and game. Refined tannins coat the palate. Good balance between texture [...]
2013 Quinta Dos Murcas Reserva 2013 Quinta Dos Murcas Reserva Aroma of great complexity and elegance, the result of its evolution in the bottle. Dominated by ripe black fruits, balsamic aromas, such as rockrose, and spicy notes, from its aging in barrel. Firm and concentrated, with a present and balanced acidity, it has ripe tannins [...]
2015 Allegrini La Poja 2015 Allegrini La Poja Made from 100% Corvina, this structured, velvety red opens with enticing aromas of black-skinned berry, cedar and tobacco. The full-bodied, balanced palate offers blackberry jam, Morello cherry, licorice and black pepper alongside fine-grained tannins and bright acidity. Drink through 2031. Allegrini The Allegrini Family has been producing [...]
2013 Canneto Filippone 2013 Canneto Filippone Aromas of fruit, herb spice and earthy tones. On the palate cherry and dark berry flavors with oak and sweet spice. Fine soft tannins, lingering, good balance ending with earthy mineral character. Canneto During the mid-70s a few friends from the Zurich area, with a common passion for wine, [...]
2017 Mastroberadino Taurasi Radici 2017 Mastroberadino Taurasi Radici Straw-yellow in color with aromas of pear, pineapple, acacia, toasted nut, honey and spring flowers. On the palate, this 2017 wine has excellent acidity, yet fine smoothness, with a hint of toasted almond in the finish. This wine is fine as an aperitif, especially with toasted nuts, [...]
2018 Ch Moulin D Duhart Pauillac 2018 Ch Moulin D Duhart Pauillac Beautiful deep, glittering colour surrounds this 2018 wine. The nose is already expressive, offering aromas of cherries and ripe blackcurrants, with a hint of vanilla. On the palate, the attack is soft and full-bodied. The fruit from the nose reappears, with a deliciously [...]
2018 Harris Cabernet Indulgence 2018 Harris Cabernet Indulgence In the glass this wine displays a regal dark purple hue with a violet halo. Aromatic notes emerge from the glass suggesting kirsch, macerated boysenberry, crushed rock and a faint trace of spearmint oil. The decadent palate is sleek, layered with notes of cassis reduction, dark chocolate [...]
2017
2017 Verite La Joie 2017 Verite La Joie The Cab Franc was quite spectacular in 2017. There is a bit more in the blend this year,” Pierre Seillan told me during the tasting of the 2017s with his daughter and one day successor, Helene. A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc, 10% Merlot [...]
2018 Bouchard Vosne Romanee 2018 Bouchard Vosne Romanee From a parcel that the Bouchard team farms and harvests, the 2018 offers up a fragrant bouquet of raspberries, spices and rose petals, Weber observing that there is a lot of Pinot Beurrot planted among the Pinot Noir in this old-vine plot. On the palate, it’s medium [...]
2018 Bouchard Chambolle-Musigny 2018 Bouchard Chambolle-Musigny Attractive aromas of raspberries, red berries, cinnamon, warm spices and woodsmoke preface this 2018 vintage, a medium to full-bodied, lively wine with good depth at the core and refined structuring tannins. Around half of the cuvée derives from Bouchard’s own holdings, the balance provided by purchased grapes. Bouchard Père [...]
The 2017 Valmaggiore is characterized by a nose of red fruits with licorice and cola. The wine is delicate and shows great typicity of the vine. In the mouth there is an initial burst of sweetness framed around the expressive red fruit. Excellent tannin and acidity help balance the vibrant and ripe red fruit flavors [...]
