Ratings by Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes While not at the level of the phenomenal 2005, Grand-Puy-Lacoste has produced another classic wine with the creme de cassis fruit that I often find in both Mouton Rothschild and Pontet-Canet, yet both of those vineyards are closer to the Gironde River. This wine has a pure personality,… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes A dense purple color is followed by layers of concentrated blackberry fruit intertwined with damp earth, mushroom, and sweet, toasty barrique smells. With ripe tannin, medium to full body, a layered texture, and a concentrated, impressively endowed finish, this is the finest Du Tertre since their 1979. This… Read More »
Grape 100% Chardonnay Tasting Notes Gleaming straw-green; a complex wine in mainstream Margaret River style, with a mix of white flesh stone fruit, grapefruit, fig and cashew; good balance and length. – by James Halliday Barrel fermented in French oak barriques, 40% new, and aged for 10 months, the 2008 Chardonnay gives toasty apple tart… Read More »
Region Tasmania Grape Chardonnay Tasting Notes Light to medium yellow-green; the bouquet has some slightly herbal overtones – typical of very cool grown chardonnay – to the citrus and melon fruit, nuances of almond/cashew, and balanced and integrated oak. The palate is very subtle and sophisticated, again with those nutty cashew characters, and brisk acidity.… Read More »
AOC – Pomerol Grape 90% Merlot 10% Cabernet FrancRatings Robert Parker 89Wine Spectator 9116 / 20 by DECANTERTasting Notes A sleeper of the vintage, this impressively run, small Pomerol estate has turned out a fruit-driven (loads of black cherries and cassis) 2005 revealing notions of smoke, licorice, and wood. It is a plump, corpulent, fleshy,… Read More »