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$32.61
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Firm tannins are holding everything in place right now. There's a tiny dip through the mid-palate before the fruit...
750ml
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$41.74
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$40.91
Very aromatic and bright with currants and orange peel on the nose. Full body, velvety tannins and a delicious...
750ml
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A silky and very polished Barolo with cedar and floral character, as well as plenty of strawberries. Medium body and...
750ml
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Wild aromas of dried fruit, fresh herbs, rosebushes and thyme. Medium body and soft, silky tannins. A delicious...
750ml
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$120.79
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$120.00
Aromas of chocolate powder, orange peel and dried strawberry. Medium body, intense and silky tannins and a flavorful...
750ml
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Aromas of cedar with flowers and dried strawberries following through to medium body. Fine tannins and a fresh, solid...
750ml
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$194.00
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$192.80
Luminous bright red. Perfumed aromas of red cherry, red rose, violet and minerals are complicated by delicate hints...
750ml
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Exotically perfumed, with ripe, lushly textured fruit. A complete and showy example of great, polished modern claret...
750ml
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Effectively half-and-half Merlot and Cabernet Franc, this is a tremendous wine. With very fine tannins, spice from a...
1.5Ltr
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$205.00
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$200.90
Fantastic aromas of crushed plums and blackberries. Perfumed! Full-bodied and very silky with stone undertones. Best...
750ml
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Barrel Sample. While this powerful wine does have considerable over-extraction, it also has swathes of ripe berry...
750ml
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$97.50
While I wasn’t able to taste the 2015, the 2014 Château Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse is fabulous stuff and well...
750ml
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$23.94
12 bottles:
$23.46
A gorgeous bottle of Bordeaux from a great vintage! This is a "can't miss" for the table or the cellar... Big and...
1.5Ltr
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$316.20
6 bottles:
$312.00
93-95 Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant...
750ml
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$154.94
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93-95 Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant...
750ml
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$70.56
$78.40
Barrel sample. Full of ripe Cabernet tannins, this is a structured wine that's chunky in character. It elegantly...
750ml
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$57.61
Spicy, rich and full of ripe fruit, this wine has great potential. It is structured and dense while bringing out a...
750ml
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$77.95
This is a complete wine, full of both tannins and great swathes of ripe fruit. It has a serious side as well in its...
750ml
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$163.83
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$160.55
This is real powerful and sexy with a voluptuous style of ripe fruit, mushrooms and wet earth. Leafy. Full and...
750ml
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$95.29
Barrel Sample. Superripe fruits dominate this wine. It is generous and full in the mouth, the tannins and structure...
Cortese Nebbiolo Red Bordeaux 2012 2014
The Cortese white wine grape varietal has been grown in and around south Piedmont, Italy, for at least five hundred years. Its delicate nature and moderate acidity have made it a favorite with people around the world, and it is most commonly served alongside the excellent seafood and shellfish dishes of the part of Italy it is traditionally grown in. Cortese grapes are easily identifiable by their lime and greengage flavors, and their generally delicate and medium bodied character. Cortese wines are also notable for their freshness and crispness, again, making them an ideal match for seafood. Whilst colder years often produce harsher, more acidic Cortese wines, practices such as allowing malolactic fermentation can solve any such problems and still produce delicious white wines made from this varietal.
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.
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.