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A good rest on lees in the cellar through to May 2015 has seen this salmon-colored rosé develop a wealth of dried...
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The 2005 Barbaresco Santo Stefano is striking in its beauty. This firm, structured wine bursts from the glass with...
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Red garnet in color. Intense and fine aromas of fresh red fruit. The palate presents good freshness, excellent...
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Pale in color, but rich in texture and fruit, this wonderfully mature rosé is structured from 70% Pinot Noir in the...
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I believe that the 2005 DP is the best since 2002, which remains the best recent vintage and is probably only...
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A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows...
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This rose Champagne is rich and vinous, offering smoky minerality up front, expanding to show dried raspberry,...
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Disgorged in July 2014, Francis Egly's 2005 Brut Grand Cru Millésime is a brilliant wine in this middling vintage,...
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The recently-bottled 2005 Barolo Cascina Francia is, as expected, somewhat closed down at this stage from an aromatic...
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The 2005 Barolo Monprivato is a very pretty, harmonious wine endowed with tons of purity in its fruit. All of the...
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Rich hints of baked plum and marzipan are enlivened by sleek, well-knit acidity in this harmonious Champagne. The...
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Intense ripe berry and dried fruit on the nose, with rose petal. Full-bodied, with silky tannins and a mahogany,...
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Fabulous nose with great blood orange intensity neatly framed by brioche. On the extravagant and concentrated palate...
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Rocche dell’Annunziata is all about finesse, details, weightless elegance. It’s a symphony of ethereal aromas...
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In 1833, Annonciade, the daughter of a winemaker from Bouzy, married Auguste François Bara, a young cooper from the...
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A truly special site, this is a majestic Champagne that has superb darker notes of brulée, roasted almonds and...
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Champagne Blend Nebbiolo 2005 2023

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.

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.