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Slowly and confidently inching towards its drinking window, but needs another three to five years before it gets...
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Slowly and confidently inching towards its drinking window, but needs another three to five years before it gets...
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Plenty of tannins still in play, and it is dense, powerful and reserved even at 15 years old. The tertiary notes of...
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Beautiful, rich and incredibly softly textured, this is still very young. Also supremely measured and stately, with...
750ml - Case of 3
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At the time it was shown as a barrel sample in early 2007, this was the best wine of 2006. That accolade remains. It...
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Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Château Pape Clément has an intense...
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A rather solar expression suffuses the complex nose mingling notes of prunes, spices, and forest floor. This is not...
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Tight and unyielding at the moment, but with great pedigree, great texture and definition, this has lots of life to...
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This is an impressively complete wine, the fruit right in context with the dark, dry tannins. All the elements are in...
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This is showing really well right now with an exuberance and richness that verges on extravagance. It's full body,...
750ml
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12 bottles:
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These wines demonstrate how Bordeaux somehow straddles the midpoint between Burgundy and the New World, and you see...
750ml
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A wine that succeeds in combining great depth of flavor and structure with an impressive array of flavors. On top of...
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Offers violet and blackberry on the nose, with tar. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins and a fruity, minerally...
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Rich dark classic claret in colour, a sweetness to the palate and the layers and complexity on this are excellent. On...
375ml
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Good deep red. Redcurrant and smoke on the nose. Silky and suave for a second wine, with a juicy quality and good...
Chenin Blanc Red Bordeaux Sangiovese 2006
Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.
There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.
The name of this grape, meaning 'blood of Jove' conjures up evocative images of long dead civilizations, and gives the Sangiovese varietal a sense of the holy, the sacred, the special. Indeed, this particular type of Italian grape has been cultivated and processed for thousands of years, and is said to be the original favorite grape varietal of the Romans, and the Etruscans before them. Throughout history, vintners have continued to plant this varietal, and they continue to produce wonderful wines to this day. The long bunches of very dark, round fruit are treasured by fine wineries in Italy and a few other places around the world, and when young, these grapes are lively – full of strawberry flavors and a little spiciness. However, it is when they are aged in oak that they take on some truly special flavors and aromas, as seen in some of the finest wines of the Old World.