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Lots of ripe black cherries, mulberries, Christmas spice, incense, and dried flower notes emerge from the 2019...
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This is intense with tons of tar and cloves against the well-defined cassis fruits and lovely vibrant violet edging....
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Juicy and flush, with steeped red and black currant and plum fruit flavors, this has a generous edge from start to...
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Coming from depressingly low yields of just 26 hectoliters per hectare (the lowest since 1991), the 2020 Château...
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Wood aging has smoothed the fruit and shows the potential that awaits when the wine's still young tannins soften....
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Black-plum, dried-herb, tobacco and some meaty aromas. It’s medium-to full-bodied with firm, fine tannins. Savory...
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The aromas here are so spellbinding with shitake mushrooms, wet earth and moss, as well as tree bark and, finally,...
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This is a wine that is showing lots of structure with tightly wound tannins that spin through the center palate....
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Coming from an incredible terroir on the Côte Pavie, which is a south-facing hillside of clay and limestone soils,...
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Showing beautifully, the 2018 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion sports a dense purple hue as well as a ripe, concentrated,...
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The 2020 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion is a gorgeous, incredibly satisfying Pessac, and it's certainly up with the...
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Dark in color, with an impressive nose of licorice, toasty oak, chocolate and blackberry. Full-bodied, with silky...
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Another beautiful Pessac from 2020, the 2020 Château Latour-Martillac has a textbook bouquet of smoky red and black...
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Beautiful plums and ripe cherries with dark chocolate and hazelnut undertones. Full-bodied, juicy and tannic with...
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This estate has been on fire in recent vintages, and the 2018 Château Léoville Barton is up there with the best of...
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The flagship from this great château, the 2020 Château Léoville Barton checks in as 85.5% Cabernet Sauvignon and...
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Extremely lively palate, really quite bright, bold, powerful, chewy tannins fill the mouth but you get such power and...
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Every bit as good as the 2009, and I think better than the 2010 and 2016, the 2018 Château Léoville Poyferré is a...
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The flagship 2019 Château Léoville Poyferré is based on 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, and the balance Petit...
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The 2020 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a total stunner. For the first time I can remember, Les Carmes Haut-Brion marries...
Petite Sirah Pinot Gris Red Bordeaux Rapid Ship
Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.
By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.
There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.
The Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris grape varietal is now one of the most widely grown vines in the world, due to the surge in popularity of Pinot Grigio wines over the past twenty years or so. These grayish-blue fruits, which hang in their distinctively conical bunches, are responsible for a very broad range of wines famous for their variety of color tones and flavors Pinot Grigio varietal grapes are highly influenced by terroir, climate and particularly the skill and expertise of the vintners who process them. As such, there are full bodied, amber colored wines made from this grape, and there are equally delicious yet far leaner, paler, lighter bodied and crisp white wines made from the same species in other parts of the world.
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.