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2005 TRIAL HILL SHIRAZ Maverick
Barossa Valley South Australia Australia
Typically rich and full bodied in classic Barossa style,with dark chocolate and blackberry fruit and yet fresh and savoury on the palate, making it very drinkable.
Barossa Valley South Australia Australia
Typically rich and full bodied in classic Barossa style,with dark chocolate and blackberry fruit and yet fresh and savoury on the palate, making it very drinkable.
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2007 BARBARESCO Cotta' Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
So, so aromatic and packed with rich dried fruit flavours, this is hard not to drink immediately from a large bowled wine glass, but this will so obviously be magnificent with more time in bottle.
Alba Piedmont Italy
So, so aromatic and packed with rich dried fruit flavours, this is hard not to drink immediately from a large bowled wine glass, but this will so obviously be magnificent with more time in bottle.
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2007 BARBARESCO Curra' Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
The Curra' 'cru' produces wines which are powerful and richly textured. The 2007 needs time in bottle as it is still tight and compact, but so well structured with a fine line of finesse throughout that this will make for gorgeous old bones.
Alba Piedmont Italy
The Curra' 'cru' produces wines which are powerful and richly textured. The 2007 needs time in bottle as it is still tight and compact, but so well structured with a fine line of finesse throughout that this will make for gorgeous old bones.
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2007 BARBARESCO Fausoni Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
The Fausoni 'cru' produces wines with a fine balance of elegance, bouquet and concentration. Licorice, mint and balsam. The 2007 is high toned, finely textured, concentrated and has fabulous length.
Alba Piedmont Italy
The Fausoni 'cru' produces wines with a fine balance of elegance, bouquet and concentration. Licorice, mint and balsam. The 2007 is high toned, finely textured, concentrated and has fabulous length.
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2008 BARBARESCO Fausoni Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
Complex, rich and tight, this is wonderful but will need a lot of time to show at its best.
Alba Piedmont Italy
Complex, rich and tight, this is wonderful but will need a lot of time to show at its best.
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2008 BARBARESCO Cotta' Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
These are the oldest vines (50 to 60 year old) and produce the most powerful of the 'crus'. Richly textured and powerful this is the wine that most easily impresses, and will do so for a decade and more.
Alba Piedmont Italy
These are the oldest vines (50 to 60 year old) and produce the most powerful of the 'crus'. Richly textured and powerful this is the wine that most easily impresses, and will do so for a decade and more.
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2006 BARBARESCO Pajore Sottimano
Alba Piedmont Italy
Pajore is a fifty year old vineyard, at 420 metres, grown on limestone and one which Sottimano belives combines all of the bset of the other vineyards, creating the most classical and elegant of all the wines. The 2006 vintage was given twenty months in French oak, of which 25% new, and the wines are serious and beautiful, but require patience too!
Alba Piedmont Italy
Pajore is a fifty year old vineyard, at 420 metres, grown on limestone and one which Sottimano belives combines all of the bset of the other vineyards, creating the most classical and elegant of all the wines. The 2006 vintage was given twenty months in French oak, of which 25% new, and the wines are serious and beautiful, but require patience too!
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2009 PENFOLDS Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz
Barossa Valley South Australia Australia
Another of Penfold's muliti-vineyard blends this is often cited as the 'poor man's Grange'. A blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, from the cooler coastal vineyards, with 49% Shiraz from the warmer sites including Barossa, this is aged in a combination of new and used French and American oak casks. Intensely mint and rich on the nose, the palate follows through with sweet chewy fruit, with spices and herbs and tremendous length. (Tasting older vintages... (more info)
Barossa Valley South Australia Australia
Another of Penfold's muliti-vineyard blends this is often cited as the 'poor man's Grange'. A blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, from the cooler coastal vineyards, with 49% Shiraz from the warmer sites including Barossa, this is aged in a combination of new and used French and American oak casks. Intensely mint and rich on the nose, the palate follows through with sweet chewy fruit, with spices and herbs and tremendous length. (Tasting older vintages... (more info)
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2003 SAGRANTINO DI MONTEFALCO 25 Anni Arnaldo-Caprai
Montefalco Umbria Italy
First produced in 1993 as a celebration of the estate's jubilee, the '25 Anni' is a selection of the estate's best Sagrantino. Aged for 24 months in new barrels, it is a hugely impressive wine, packed with rich-berry fruit and beautifully integrated oak, and powerfully dense with very lovely tannins. A wine that will age magnificently over the next two decades
Montefalco Umbria Italy
First produced in 1993 as a celebration of the estate's jubilee, the '25 Anni' is a selection of the estate's best Sagrantino. Aged for 24 months in new barrels, it is a hugely impressive wine, packed with rich-berry fruit and beautifully integrated oak, and powerfully dense with very lovely tannins. A wine that will age magnificently over the next two decades
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2007 CHÂTEAU LÉOVILLE BARTON 2ème Cru Classé Saint Julien
Left Bank Bordeaux France
More closed on the nose than the Langoa, tighter and dryer, firmer style. Reasonable fruit but surprisingly firm. The fruit stays on the finish. Very classical, very Barton. At the Chateau it showed differently, crushed raspberry and blackberry, smooth texture but with grippy but non-violent tannins - the fruit more on the ascendant, and the tannins not so obvious.
Left Bank Bordeaux France
More closed on the nose than the Langoa, tighter and dryer, firmer style. Reasonable fruit but surprisingly firm. The fruit stays on the finish. Very classical, very Barton. At the Chateau it showed differently, crushed raspberry and blackberry, smooth texture but with grippy but non-violent tannins - the fruit more on the ascendant, and the tannins not so obvious.
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