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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 2008 Barolo Margheria opens with a sweet, inviting bouquet redolent of hard candy, flowers, mint and licorice....
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Intense garnet color with orange highlights. Notes of red fruit and roses are found on the nose. On the palate, good...
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Amazing nose of chocolate, orange peel, plums and hazelnut. Full-bodied, with super fine tannins and a long finish....
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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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The 2008 Barolo Sori Ginestra is the most complete of these 2008s. An exotic melange of plums, black cherries,...
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Vintages of this wine between 1996 and 2013 are labelled Langhe Sperss.
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The 2008 Barolo Cascina Francia possesses gorgeous inner perfume, layers of sublime fruit and fabulous overall...
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The 2008 Barolo Cascina Francia possesses gorgeous inner perfume, layers of sublime fruit and fabulous overall...
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#6 of Top 100, 2013. Detailed and fragrant, offering floral, strawberry, cherry, licorice and spice flavors, this is...
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The 2008 Barbaresco Vigneto Gallina bursts from the glass with a rush of dark fruit. This is one of the more...
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The 2008 Barbaresco Vigneto Starderi is the biggest, most powerful and also most complete of the 2008 Barbarescos...
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Good full red. Ripe strawberry and rose petal on the perfumed, slightly liqueur-like nose, with a peachy nuance...
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A strong and chewy wine with polished and rich tannins. Cedar and mushrooms. Full and intense. Goes on for minutes....
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Compared to the cru of Baudana, Cerretta is much better known, as it is a fairly large cru (by Serralunga standards)...
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The 2008 Barolo Riserva Vignarionda was held back at the winery to be released commercially ten years after the...
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Japanese Whiskey Nebbiolo Red Blend White Blend 2008

Whisky might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Japanese fine produce, but over the past one hundred years, this fascinating and multi-faceted country has diligently forged a unique whisky identity which is growing in popularity, and which is entirely its own.

The story of Japanese whisky begins in 1918, when Masataka Taketsuru was sent to Scotland to undertake a tour of single malt distilleries in the Highlands, and bring home a knowledge of whisky and distillation skills. He returned full of inspiration, helped no doubt by his new Scottish wife, and alongside his friend, Shinjiro Torii, set up what would become a successful whisky industry.

Today, the Japanese whisky industry is spread over a relatively small handful of distilleries, which continue to use Scottish techniques and recipes, but with a hefty dose of distinctly Japanese experimentalism. This is displayed most obviously in the barrelling techniques the Japanese use - to create a distinctly Oriental set of tasting notes, native Japanese oakwood casks are used for ageing, alongside casks taken from plum wine producers, which impart a beautiful set of floral flavors to the whisky.

While some distilleries produce some excellent single malts, the majority of Japanese whiskies are blended, which reveals a unique set of flavors and aromas ranging from honeysuckle and orange blossom, to toffee and acetone.

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.