The red blend 2019 Cyclo was produced with Tempranillo and some10% between Garnacha, Cariñena, Viura and Albillo. It fermented with full clusters in concrete and indigenous yeasts, foot trodden, and it matured in oak barrels . It's quite ripe and heady at...
This is the domaine’s horse, a wine that never fails to make the cut for Bettane & Desseauve’s annual Guide des Vins, France’s most serious guide. The Guide notes the "perfect maturity" the Natters obtain from their grapes, and that maturity, coupled with native yeast fermentation in foudre, accounts for the intense aromas and rich texture of the wine. It spends a minimum of six months aging in the big casks. Production averages 8,500 cases.
Another great, great Lauer Kupp Kabi; soaring citrus and stone fruit, a muscular ten grams of acidity slicing open the wine to reveal a super-polished mineral core, salty like an ocean breeze. This is the Saar at its best.
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From the estate's beautiful property on the volcanic island of Santorini, the unoaked Gai'a 2023 Santorini Assyrtiko Thalassitis shows crisp aromas of star fruit, quince, caper leaf and crushed stone. Proprietor Yiannis Paraskevopoulos says that the 2023 ...
The Ciro Picariello 2022 Fiano di Avellino is an elegant and silky expression from a hot vintage. High-elevation vines at 650 meters above sea level on clay volcanic soils serve to protect this wine against any excessive ripeness. Instead, this unoaked wi...