DO – Bierzo Grape 100% Godello Tasting Notes Clean pale yellow color. Nose fruity, persistent and elegant aromas. Good backbone on the palate. -by Official Website . Alvarez de Toledo’s new releases include one white wine, the 2010 Godello. This unoaked beauty delivers a lovely perfume of baking spices, melon, peaches, and mineral. Round, spicy,… Read More »
AOC – PomerolGrape 80% Merlot 20% Cabernet FrancRating & Awards Robert Parker 83 ~85Rated top 40 in Pomerol by various wine critics. Tasting Notes Licorice and berry aromas and flavors follow through to a medium body, with chewy tannins and a medium finish. Turns austere on the finish. Little too much. –by Wine Spectator *Owned… Read More »
DO – Vinos de MadridGrape 90% Tempranillo10% Syrah and Cabernet Ratings & Awards "100 Best Buy" by WINE ENTHUSIAST Tasting Notes Bright cherry red, nose expresses with notes, fruity aromas of wood and with hints of spices. The palate is meaty and structured. *20,000 bottles produced -by Official Website
Grape Cabernet Sauvignon Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Jeremy Oliver 95Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Colour : An opaque mauve, with a black centre and dark crimson rim. Nose : Varietal notes of blackcurrant and a hint of leaf are immediately apparent, with black olives and… Read More »
Grape 100% Shiraz Ratings James Halliday 90Tasting Notes Deep red in colour, with bright blackberry/liquorice fruit, spice and pepper notes with integrated vanillin oak. The palate is medium weight with complex flavours of dark berry and earth giving a long peppery finish with firm tannins. Particularly well balanced and perfumed typical of the 2006 vintage.… Read More »
AOC – Pomerol Grape 80% Merlot 20% Cabernet Franc Ratings & Awards Robert Parker 83 ~85 Rated top 40 in Pomerol by various wine critics. Tasting Notes Licorice and berry aromas and flavors follow through to a medium body, with chewy tannins and a medium finish. Turns austere on the finish. Little too much. –by… Read More »
AOC – Paulliac Grand Cru Classes – 1 eme Ratings Robert Parker 98+ Wine Spectator 94 Tasting Notes A sensational effort, the 2006 Mouton Rothschild exhibits an opaque purple color as well as a classic Mouton perfume of creme de cassis, flowers, blueberries, and only a hint of oak. Dalhuin told me that in whisky… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 96 Tasting Notes Sitting next to my former colleague, Pierre Antoine Rovani, at one of the tastings, he commented that he didn’t detect at all, and a subsequent bottle at another tasting did not reveal it either. I do think there is a hint of bay leaf and a meatiness to… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes Typically extracted and powerful (which is atypical in a vintage such as 2008), this offering may lack charm, but it is ????locked and loaded?? with plenty of background oak, huge black cherry and black currant fruit, medium to full body and a boatload of tannin. Forget it for… Read More »