DO – ToroGrape 100% Tinta de Toro Ratings & Awards Robert Parker 94 Wine Spectator 9192 points by WINE ENTHUSIAST Tasting Notes The fruit of their partnership is the rich and smooth Campo Eilsero DO Toro, made from 100% Tinta de Toro, a variant of the classic Spanish variety Tempranillo. –by Official Website The 2004… Read More »
Grape Shiraz Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Excellent – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 95 Jeremy Oliver 95 James Halliday 96 Wine Spectator 93 Tasting Notes Colour : Deep, dark magenta. Nose : Dark spices and saturated fresh regional Shiraz fruits – tell-tale wafts of blueberry, blackberry, liquorice and black olive.… Read More »
Grape 100% Cabernet Sauvignon Ratings & Awards– Rated 4 stars "Best Buy" by CUISINE, New Zealand– Rated 4 stars by WINESTATE – Silver Medal – San Francisco Wine Competition 2008 Tasting Notes Colour: Intense red with purple hues Bouquet: Fresh, complex cassis and mint fruit flavours with some well integrated vanillin oak. Palate: Full bodied… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 94 Tasting Notes As usual, this superb Pauillac possesses an inky/blue/black color in addition to a big, sweet nose of graphite, charcoal, burning embers, black currant liqueur, and toasty vanillin from new oak casks. Full-bodied with high but sweet, well-integrated tannins, the 2005 Pichon Baron is more backward than the blockbuster… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Dry tannin and a backward, austere, muscular, brooding personality characterize Leoville Barton’s 1999. However, it is packed with grip, body, and depth. Give it 5-6 years of cellaring and hope the tannin melts away sufficiently for the fruit to come forward. It should last for two decades, but… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 By This blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc offers complex aromas of mint, black currants, cherries, underbrush, and forest floor. Deliciously ripe with a soft texture, medium body, and considerable seductive powers, this beauty should be enjoyed over the next 7-8 years. (Wine Advocate #188Apr… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes Fully mature, the 2000 D??Issan is a quintessentially elegant, yet concentrated, aristocratic Margaux that defines the appellation. The wine has a dark ruby/purple color just beginning to lighten at the edge. Notes of charcoal, acacia flowers, black raspberries, and blue fruits are followed by a medium to full-bodied… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes An amazing success in this vintage, the dark ruby/purple-hued 2008 reveals its noble terroir in its complex aromatics of spring flowers and burning embers/charcoal. A medium to full-bodied mouthfeel displaying no hard edges and a seamless integration of acidity, tannin, alcohol and wood result in an approachable, already… Read More »