Region Moonambel Grape Cabernet Tasting Notes Medium red-purple; the bouquet is quite scented, with sweet cassis/currant/blackberry fruit. The palate opens with abundant dark berry fruit, but then moves through to all pervasive tannins which need to settle and soften, and there has to be a question about the long-term balance of the wine. -87 pts… Read More »
Region: Toro DO Grape -100% Tinta de Toro (Tempranillo) Ratings & Awards: 91 pts by Wine Spectator Tasting note: From 50 years old vines Aged 12 months in new French oak Highly concentrated dry red wine, notable fruit flavours, full of wood and spicy overtones. In the mouth it is muscular with mature, polished tannins… Read More »
AOC – Bordeaux Grape 50% Sauvignon Blanc 50% Semillon Tasting Notes Colour: some golden glints On the nose, aromas of grapefruit, white peach and orange blossom. In the mouth, the attack is straight and full. The aromas of Sauvignon are very expressive but we also feel the strength of the Semillon that is going to… Read More »
DOC – DouroGrape90% Touriga Franca (Old Vin) 10% Tinta RorizRating & Awards 90 points by WINE ENTHUSIAST Rated 4 stars and 1 bottle by PERSWIJN17 / 20 by Vinhos de Portugal Tasting Notes Nose: Very aromatic and elegant with a delicate woodland and notes of red fruits such as the griotte or black cherry. Palate… Read More »
Grape Shiraz Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 92 Jeremy Oliver 94 James Halliday 95 Wine Spectator 94 Tasting Notes Colour : Impenetrable deep red/purple. Nose : Blackberry and blueberry fruit interwoven with perfectly tuned, malty, savoury oak, with liquorice and anise notes hovering above.… Read More »
Grape 100% Chardonnay Rating & Awards – James Halliday 94 – The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2009 94 Tasting Notes Employing wild yeast ferments in French oak, the 2008 vintage is a classically elegant Chardonnay with the ability to age gracefully. –by Winemaker Andrew Pirie Mid-gold, vivid green hue; restrained pear and almond bouquet,… Read More »
AOC – PaulliacGrand Cru Classes – 1emeRatings Robert Parker 93 Wine Spectator 91Tasting Notes Dense purple to the rim, this wine exhibits the classic cassis aroma that is so characteristic of Mouton. Medium to full-bodied, tannic, powerful, and cut somewhat from the 1988 mold, this is a backward, chewy, well-endowed Mouton-Rothschild that will require considerable… Read More »