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Tasted single blind against its peers. This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod...
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Barrel sample. Impressively balanced, with the fruit rich, intense with a golden glow. The acidity is as important as...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $120.79
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COLOR: Intense ruby red with orange reflections. NOSE: Intense bouquet of ripe fruits, such as currants and...
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The 1990 Barolo Villero emerges from the glass with a seductive, exotic array of perfumed red fruits. The 1990 offers...
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The 2008 Barbaresco Rio Sordo is a bit more forward than the Tre Stelle. It is a precise, delicate wine laced with...
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Tasted single blind against its peers. This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod...
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750ml - Case of 12
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An extraordinary effort, Yquem's 1990 is a rich and fabulously superb, sweet wine. This wine also possesses lots of...
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Pale orange-gold. Tangy aromas of peach, tangerine and honey are pure but a bit youthfully subdued; this reminded me...
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92-94 Barrel sample. Rich rather than sweet, this is stuffed full of botrytis. The wine is powered through with this...
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750ml - Case of 12
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The 2008 Barolo Sori Ginestra is the most complete of these 2008s. An exotic melange of plums, black cherries,...
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The 2008 Corton-Charlemagne comes across as super-classic in its chiseled fruit. Today the 2008 is holding back much...
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#59 Top100, 2010. Aromas of citrus blossom and chalk dust lead into lemon, vanilla, peach and mineral in this...
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Chardonnay Nebbiolo Semillon/sauvignon Blanc 1990 2008 750ml

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.