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 »
VDT – Castilla y Leon Grape 100% Mencia (old wines with an average age of 50 years) Tasting Notes Beautiful straw yellow colour. On the nose fruity, persistent and elegant aromas. -by Official Website . The 2008 Lagar de Robla Premium Mencia spent 18 months in American oak. It is the most complex of these… Read More »
Grape 100% Mencia Tasting Notes Ochreish red colour, strong and thin aromas, elegant and thin harmonious tannin, well-balanced with grape and mature fruit hints. -by Official Website The 2008 Flavium Premium Mencia spent 20 months in French and American oak. Opulent, rich, and lengthy, it has the balance to drink well for 6-8 years but… Read More »
Rasting Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes Our wine stands out because of its marked fruity character which brings out all the qualities and characteristics of the Mencia variety. Its time in the barrel accentuates these qualities by providing subtlety, elegance and complexity. In mouth is silky, fruity, with persistence and great kindness. -by Official Website… Read More »
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, and pleasure-bent, this smooth-textured, impeccably balanced… Read More »
Tasting Notes 3 Stones Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay is a fruit driven wine with zestys flavours of white peach, tropical fruit and a delightful hint of lemon citrus. We have crafted the wine to mazmise the stunning fruit character, making it ideal as an aperitif, or matched to pan-seared chicken, fish, or pork. -by Official Website
Grape 65% Corvina 20% Rondinella 15% Corvinone Ratings & Awards Commended – International Wine Challenge 2009 Tasting Notes colour: intense Ruby Red Bouquet: combinations of red fruits, spicy and vinous. taste: well balanced, full-bodied, velvety and with the right acidity to balance the tannins. -by Officoal Website *Amarone skins added for a second fermentation or… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Cantemerle tends to produce somewhat understated and restrained, but finesse-filled wines. The medium-bodied 2008 offers elegant notes of raspberries, red currants, crushed rocks and oak backed up by good concentration, sweet tannin and no hard edges. Drink it over the next 10-12 years. (Wine Advocate #194 May 2011)… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes A beautiful wine of elegance and intensity, this medium-bodied, dark plum/purple-hued 2007 possesses a floral-infused bouquet, sweet, plush, red and black fruit flavors, and an endearing, silky texture. Drink it over the next 10-12 years.(Wine Advocate #188 Apr 2010) By Robert Parker