AOP – Vin D’Alsace Grape – Gewurztraminer Tasting Notes Golden shiny yellow Candied, lychee, aromas and rose perfume. Rich, very well balanced body supplanted by intense flavours, spicy. Excellent with foie gras, spicy, exotic dishes, soft and washed rind cheeses, desserts like pies and crumbles. -by Official Website
AOC – Saint Julien Cru Bourgeois Superieur Grape 65% Cabernet Sauvignon30% Merlot 5% Cabernet Franc Rating & Awards Rated 4 stars, highly recommended by DECANTER 89 points by Guide des Vins Gilbert & Gaillard 2010 Tasting Notes The 2006 vintage still turned out very well, as timely leaf-and bunch-thinning enabled all the grape varieties to… Read More »
IGT – ToscanaGrape 100% Cabernet SauvignonRatings & Awards Robert Parker 94 Wine Spectator 90 Tasting Notes Lots of vanilla and currant character on the nose and palate. A very New World style. Full and soft. Long finish. A little one-dimensional now, but a fun and flavorful wine. Cabernet Sauvignon. Best after 2009. -by Wine Spectator… Read More »
Grape Shiraz Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Excellent – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 87 Jeremy Oliver 88 James Halliday 94 Wine Spectator 94 Tasting Notes Colour : Magenta with a deep purple core. Nose : An archetypal refined Barossa Shiraz nose with liquorice, blackberry and plum aromas over a tar… Read More »
AOC – Margaux Grand Cru Classe – 3eme Grape Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot , Petit Verdot Ratings Robert Parker 90Wine Spectator 94 Tasting NotesThe inky color has purple highlights.Aromatically it explodes with blackcurrants, blackberries, figs, prunes, gingerbread, sandalwood, mint, cedar, leather, and truffle?-The attack shows a flamboyantly gothic architecture: opulent fruit, an elegant tannic structure, ideal… Read More »
Grape100% ShirazRatings & Awards/ Gold Medal – Challenge du Vin France 2009/ Rated 4 stars by WINESTATE/ Silver Medal – Finger Lake International Wine Competition 2009Tasting NotesColour: Intense red purpleBouquet: Huge lifted fresh flavours of spice and pepper with ripe cherry berry fruit balance with cedar oakPalate: Big long intense mouthful of ripe berry fruit,… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This hedonistic, luscious, sexy, opulently-textured Pichon-Lalande is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. Exhibiting a dark ruby color with purple nuances, it is open-knit, with plentiful quantities of roasted herbs, smoky oak, vanillin, and creamy black currant fruit. A… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 94? Tasting Notes Another prodigious, but brutally tannic, offering from the affable Anthony Barton, the inky/blue/black-hued 2005 Leoville Barton exhibits a sensational perfume of charcoal, burning embers, underbrush, cedar, creme de cassis, and subtle toasty oak. Painfully concentrated (much like the 2000 was at the same stage), with full body, admirable… Read More »