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Château Laplagnotte-Bellevue St. Émilion Grand Cru 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Maison Verget Pouilly-Fuissé 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
West Cape Howe Book Ends Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 |
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- Country: Italy
- Wine Vintage: 2010
- Serving Temperature: 60º-65ºF
- Grape Varietals: Barbera
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
Sergio Gomba’s scented, seductive 2010 Querciola Barbera d’Alba clearly expresses the hedonistic side of Barbera and highlights the tender qualities of this classic red wine from Piedmont. It comes across as scented and savory, like the Barbera wines of yesteryear. The ruby robed 2010 Querciola Barbera d’Alba bears the scent of ripe Bing cherries, violets, and lush woodlands. It is medium-bodied and gracious on the palate, so that one gets a full taste of Barbera fruit and spice, without a tannic after burn.
- Country: France
- Wine Vintage: 2011
- Serving Temperature: 40° F
- Grape Varietals: Chardonnay
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
In two decades of tasting Gilles Noblet’s wines, we have never tasted anything less than classic, elegant Mâcon-Fuissé and Pouilly-Fuissé. His 2011 Mâcon-Fuissé is no exception, offering an elegant, savory, fresh bouquet reminiscent of acacia flowers, apple blossoms, and minerals. On the palate, it follows through with gentle fruit, pinpoint minerality, and laser like precision that provides eminent drinkability. All this adds up to an elegant, nuanced, refreshing glass of Chardonnay.
- Country: Chile
- Wine Vintage: 2010
- Serving Temperature: 62º-66º F
- Grape Varietals: Carmenère
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
The flamboyant 2010 Casa Silva Reserva Carmenère is just one more example of the acumen of Mario Geise and Casa Silva. A deep purple wine with ruby highlights, their latest Carmenère offers up a heady bouquet of ripe blackberries, red bell pepper, woodland herbs, and delicate spices. On the palate, the essences of forest berries mingle with subtle earth tones, delicate notes of coffee and dark chocolate, all atop a layer of soft tannin which defines and frames the wine’s many flavors without overpowering them.
- Country: New Zealand
- Wine Vintage: 2010
- Serving Temperature: 40º F
- Grape Varietals: Gewurztraminer
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
The 2010 Lawson’s Dry Hills Gewurztraminer is in our experience the winery’s finest Gewurztraminer to date. It’s packed with a cornucopia of scents and savors: rose petal, lichee fruit, oriental spice tones, and ripe exotic fruits mingled with cinnamon and cardamom. The complexity and supreme balance of this ebullient, racy wine are impressive. The wine lingers on the palate with a bright, balanced acidity long after it has been swallowed, a quality that we found nearly irresistible.
- Country: France
- Wine Vintage: 2010
- Serving Temperature: 60°-65° F
- Grape Varietals: Cabernet Franc, Merlot
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
Deep in color and rich in flavor, this exceptional offering exhibits all of the attributes of the very best St. Émilion Grand Cru. In short, it walks the fine line between opulence and power. Rich red fruit and woodland scents well back up again in the mouth from a dense core of ripe fruits and fine tannins. Furthermore, cassis, dark chocolate, and subtle spice tones from a 15-month hiatus in mostly new Sequin-Moreau barrels make this young wine simply hard to resist. It’s drinking beautifully now, but should age well for at least a decade more.
- Country: France
- Wine Vintage: 2011
- Serving Temperature: 40°-50° F
- Grape Varietals: Chardonnay
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
Jean-Marie Guffens’ 2011 Maison Verget Pouilly-Fuissé is undoubtedly a reference point for the appellation. As it is endowed with an alluring bouquet reminiscent of spring flowers, crushed rock, and ripe citrus, one could almost forget to take a sip, but what a shame that would be. In the mouth this elegant Pouilly-Fuissé presents polished fruit and layers of nuanced flavors infused with a subtle minerality. A touch of oak adds additional body and complexity without overpowering the wine’s freshness, vigor, or individuality.
Read More- Country: Australia
- Wine Vintage: 2010
- Serving Temperature: 60°-65° F
- Grape Varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
Rare is the premium Cabernet Sauvignon that can be thoroughly enjoyed at a tender age, but just open a bottle of the 2010 West Cape Howe Book Ends and enjoy the aromas and flavors that flow from the bottle: scents of ripe blackberry, currant, and cedar, and rich flavors reminiscent of fresh crushed berries, cassis, eucalyptus, and plum that meld with elegant tannins honed by deft touches of French oak. Persistent, yet charming to the finish, Book Ends will surely gain even further complexity in the bottle over the next 5-8 years.
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