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2023 Chateau La Tour Figeac St. Emilion (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
The 2023 La Tour Figeac is a gorgeous, super-complex wine. Dried herbs, incense, licorice, spice, crushed flowers and mocha lend notable aromatic complexity. Deep and virile, with tons of depth and fine balance, La Tour Figeac is shaping up very nicely. T...
2023 Chateau Talbot - St. Julien (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
The 2023 Talbot is another strong wine for this re-emerging estate. Powerful, deep and impressively resonant, the 2023 is striking. Dark-toned fruit, new leather, lavender and dried herbs build over time. There's terrific depth and intensity here, with fi...
2023 Remhoogte - Chenin Blanc Simonsberg Honeybunch
Only the exposed bunches on the morning sun side of our 35 year old Chenin Blanc vineyard are selected for this wine, they turn gold in colour as a result of their exposure giving the wine a unique honeyed character. This wine is fermented with the wild/indigenous yeasts in older French oak barrels giving it an incredible complexity showing rich, honeyed fruit with a bright acidity leading into a delicious savoury finish.
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2020 Pira, Enrico (Chiara Boschis) - Barolo Cannubi Boschis
The E. Pira e Figli - Chiara Boschis 2020 Barolo Cannubi is a fine and delicate wine, although there is a little more grit and richness in this warm vintage. The quality of the fruit is exceptional, especially its crisp ripeness. Dark cherry, blackcurrant...
2021 Alexana - Pinot Noir Willamette Valley Terroir Series
Vivacious and expressive, with sleek raspberry and cherry flavors laced with rose petal, orange peel and hints of forest floor as this sails on the long, supple finish.
2020 Burlotto - Barolo
The Comm. G.B. Burlotto 2020 Barolo has delicate floral aromas with almond blossom and red fruits. To the palate, the wine shows a very tight and compact texture, tonic and polished, with lingering lavender bud, some grilled herb, sour cherry, tart flavor...
2022 Walter Scott - Chardonnay Willamette Valley La Combe Verte
2023 Chateau de Segries - Tavel Rose
Beautiful ripe cherry and red berry aromas with floral scents. Good concentration on the palate, flavorful and perfectly balanced. Good acidity and mineral backbone make it a great match with Provencal or Asian cuisine, grilled meat, fresh fruit salads
2004 Lopez de Heredia - Rioja Vina Bosconia Gran Reserva
The 2004 Viña Bosconia Gran Reserva is very open, expressive and aromatic right away—as soon as it was poured into the glass—while the Tondonia took time to open up. This has a very elegant nose, and despite having less Garnacha than the Tondonia, it has ...
2004 Lopez de Heredia - Rioja Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva Blanco
I was very much looking forward to the 2004 Viña Tondonia Blanco Gran Reserva, the next vintage of this wine after the spectacular 2001. 2004 was a perfect climate year. This is a developed white that was matured in well-seasoned, neutral American oak bar...
2004 Lopez de Heredia - Rioja Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva
The 2004 Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva didn't stop growing and changing in the glass for the good three hours that lasted the tasting of the portfolio. I had tasted this wine on my previous visit (they don't usually open future Gran Reserva vintages), and I ...
2023 Chateau L'Evangile - Pomerol (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
A fascinating exercise in terroir, as this shows the same alcohol as the Blason, but the density, fruit character and even the IPT (tannin) count are very different. You see the impact of clay soils in the building of the powerful architecture and the plu...
2023 Chateau Carruades Lafite - Pauillac (Bordeaux FUTURE ETA 2026)
A savory and juicy Carruades with softness and notes of ripe berry, cedar and dried tobacco. Like Lafite from the 1980s but more precise. Round and pretty. It really grows on the finish with such sweetness of fruit and length. Pointed, fine tannins at the...
2023 Chateau Lafite Rothschild - Pauillac (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
The finest of the first growths this year appears to be the 2023 Lafite Rothschild, a terrific effort that unwinds in the glass with deep and incipiently complex aromas of cassis, pencil shavings, lilac and violets mingled with hints of cigar wrapper and ...
2023 Chateau Duhart Milon Rothschild Pauillac (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
Inky plum, far deeper in texture and intensity than the Moulin de Duhart (in contrast to 2022, when both 1st and 2nd wines were intensely coloured). Classical Duhart on the attack, reserved and a little subdued, then in comes the waves of cassis, liqouric...
2019 Bootleg Wine Works - Red Blend Napa
The 2019 Bootleg Red Blend pours an inky black hue and offers up aromas of pencil shaving, boysenberry preserve, and sweet tobacco. Full-bodied, with full, ripe tannins, it reveals notes of preserved black plum, crushed purple flowers, and turned soil.
2018 Freemark Abbey - Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford
Blended from portions of Sycamore, Bosché and another vineyard, Freemark Abbey's 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford features scents of cassis, plum and hints of dark chocolate on the nose. A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Petit Verdot and 4% Caberne...
2021 Hartford Court - Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills Warrior Princess
Medium ruby, the 2021 Pinot Noir Warrior Princess is lifted with wild herbs and spiced with clove, raspberry, and orange oil. Medium-bodied, it has fine tannins and fresh acidity throughout, with a bright and ripe nature, including notes of fresh herbs, g...
2020 DeLille Cellars - Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Metier
Appealing, direct aromas of blueberry, plum, green pepper and cumin lead to plump, accessible blue-fruit flavors. Soft tannins back it all up. It brings a whole lot of undeniable appeal, made in a forward, accessible style. Editors Choice
2021 Ron Rubin - Pinot Noir Russian River Valley
Elegant, lifted, and balanced, this self-assured Pinot has a satiny, sophisticated finish of baking spice. Tasting Panel
2021 DeLille Cellars - Red Blend Columbia Valley D2
The 2021 D2 is mostly Merlot but includes 36% Cabernet Sauvignon and splash of Cabernet Franc. Named after the well-known route in the Médoc, it has a terrific bouquet of currants, lead pencil shavings, spice, and a touch of flowers. This carries to a med...
2020 Clos Henri - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough Clay
A special cuvée launched in honor of this top biodynamic winery's 20-year anniversary, Clay is, as the name suggests, from vines with feet in the estate's Broadbridge clay soils. Native yeast, lees and old Austrian oak barrels all contribute to this prist...
2020 Clos Henri - Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough Stones
This new special cuvée, launched for this biodynamic winery's 20th anniversary, is a finessed and beautiful bottling from vines on the estate's Greywacke river stones. Wild fermented, with time on lees in old Austrian oak and minimal sulfur, it's bright, ...
2023 Ameztoi - Rose Getariako Txakolina Rubentis
The iconic Ameztoi Rubentis rosé is a field blend of the local, indigenous hondarrabi zuri and hondarrabi beltza varieties, grown on traditional trellises high on the slopes rising above Getaria, an ancient Basque fishing village on Spain’s rugged northern coast. In the 2000s, when almost all of the other local wineries gave up on the indigenous red hondarrabi beltza vines, the Ameztoi family retained their old vines, in turn, lending their rosé such exceptional vibrancy and complexity. Rubentis, the region’s first pink wine, was inspired by the historic claret style wines which were once produced in the area long before the current global craze made rosé famous. The backbone of the blend comes from an old hondarrabi beltza vineyard planted in 1840, preserved by the Ameztoi family for generations. Ameztoi Rubentis is an authentic original, a wine that is often imitated but never replicated.
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2023 Ameztoi - Txakoli
Ameztoi’s Txakolina is the wine that has come to define the traditional style of txakolina from Getaria. Light, crisp, refreshing, and low alcohol, Ameztoi Txakolina is bottled with a touch of residual carbon dioxide gas to give it its natural, signature, spritzy style. It is produced exclusively from indigenous hondarrabi zuri grapes at the Ameztoi estate, grown on traditional trellises high on the slopes rising above Getaria, an ancient Basque fishing village on Spain’s rugged northern coast. A joyful wine with signature salty and briny notes, crisp acidity, low alcohol, and refreshing spritz naturally complements the region’s exquisite seafood.
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2021 Leone Castris - Primitivo di Manduria DOC Villa Santera
2023 Chateau Pontet Canet - Pauillac (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
With the 2023 vintage, this estate has crafted a wine of unprecedented aromatic intensity and precision that marks a significant evolution. Revealing an elegant, fresh bouquet of mulberries and cassis mingled with notions of violets, gentian and menthol, ...
2023 Chateau Leoville Las Cases - St. Julien (Bordeaux Future ETA 2026)
The 2023 Léoville Las-Cases was picked from September 9 to October 2 at 43hL/ha and matured in 80% new oak barrels. This has a very precise bouquet, and, like the Clos du Marquis, it is imbued with an attractive estuarine element—aromatics that transport ...
2022 Henri Germain - Beaune Bressandes (PRE ARRIVAL)
The 2022 Beaune 1er Cru Les Bressandes is very pretty, exhibiting aromas of orange zest, raspberries, rose petals and spices, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and supple palate that's fine-boned and mineral.
2022 Henri Germain - Meursault (PRE ARRIVAL)
The 2022 Meursault Village is ample and generous, wafting from the glass with notes of pear, clear honey, green apple and bread dough. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, with a rich core of fruit girdled by lively acids, it concludes with a saline...
