Total: 19 items
Aalto Ribera Del Duero Red
A glass-coating opaque purple color, it is already displaying a complex aromatic array of sandalwood, smoke, espresso, lavender, Asian spices, and assorted blue and black fruits. Smooth-textured, succulent, and structured, it will evolve for 2-3 years and o...
Spain • 2008 • 750 ml
Basciano Chianti Rufina
Dark mulberry and black cherry notes are supported by well-integrated oak in this dense red. Hints of licorice and tobacco reveal more of its sense of place, and this finishes fresh and long. Best from 2013 through 2020. 18,000 cases made 90 Points Wine Sp...
Italy • 2009 • 750 ml
Burgans Albarino
The Burgans Albarino is a perennial Best Buy in these pages. The 2010 Burgans Albarino delivers notes of lemon, peach, mineral, and a hint of tropical fruit aromas. Round, ripe, and savory with a slightly exotic personality, it is a nicely textured effort t...
Spain • 2010 • 750 ml
Chateau Chateau Grenache
The lovely aromatics deliver aromas of cedar, spice box, leather, cherry, and strawberry. Forward, succulent, and complex, this friendly effort is all about immediate gratification. Even so, its harmony and elegance will preserve it for another 6-8 years. ...
Australia • 2007 • 750 ml
Clarendon Hills Hickinbotham Syrah
The 2004 vintage is a dense ruby/purple-tinged color and is made in a firm, muscular, meaty style with lots of cassis, roasted herb, asphalt, and subtle oak characteristics. This powerful offering requires 1-2 years of cellaring, It should age for two decad...
2004 • 750 ml
Clos de la Roilette Fleurie Beaujolais
Delivers a succulently stimulating abundance of freshly ripe dark berries, licorice, and nut oils tinged with nutmeg as well as with smoky suggestions of peat and tobacco familiar from wines of this property. This is another of those 2010s managing to sooth...
France • 2010 • 750 ml
Clos Des Papes Chateauneuf-Du-Pape
I tasted through various foudres of the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape and it is unquestionably a top-flight wine for Clos des Papes that is seductive and forward by the standards of this estate. It reminded me of the precocious style of the 2003, and Avril told ...
France • 2009 • 750 ml
Cobos Bramare Malbec
Inky, dense violet in color, this Malbec offers a fine balance of poise and power. The nose brims with raspberries, anise, cherries and black pepper notes while in the mouth, the full-bodied impression carries flavors of cassis, red licorice, figs and hints...
Argentina • 2009 • 750 ml
David Arthur Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 Vintage
These Pritchard Hill vineyards have produced an opulent, fleshy, divine 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon. This deep, concentrated, full-bodied effort is extraordinarily young, but loaded with blueberry and black currant fruit intermixed with hints of camphor and inc...
California • 2007 • 750 ml
Domaine de Andezon Cotes Du Rhone
A blend of 90% Syrah and 10% Grenache. While there are critics of Syrah grown in the southern Rhone, even the cynics agree that the old-vine Syrah from the Gard has a special character to it. This wine comes from 40+-year-old Syrah vines and 60+-year-old Gr...
France • 2010 • 750 ml
