Dense purple in colour with a cedary, blackcurrant nose with graphite and herbal notes; full-bodied, richly extracted fruit flavours, medium- to full-bodied, dry, blackcurrant flavour.
Pale lemon colour with orchard-fruit aromas of peach and apple with a floral grace note; good tension between sweet fruit and citrus acidity with a long, mouth-freshening finish.
Sourced from multiple vineyards throughout the Peninsula, and aged in 20% new barrels, this wine is a chorus of plums, black raspberries, violets¸ spice and vanilla. The palate is graceful, but still a little disorderly, so let it sit in the cellar until the end of the year and then drink it until 2014.
Zorzal’s top-tier wine offers up Malbec in its purest and most thrilling expression. An enthralling nose of cherry, summer raspberry, boysenberry, toasted oak and concentrated currants. This is a beautifully poised and balanced wine in the mouth with layered spices of clove and nutmeg, fine oak vanilla and cocoa, and a plethora of ripe currants, red fruits and firm tannins. A true beauty that will improve for 5 or more years in the cellar. Pair with grilled beef or lamb.
Comfortably worn leather, dried raspberry and dried cherry pervade this Barolo from the commune of La Morra. Worn leather, worn cherry, ripe and savoury and finely salted on the mellow palate, showing much more age than its age. Tannins are softly buggy, and dried rose petals linger on the finish. This is from Ciabot Berton’s 8 ha of hillside Nebbiolo on sandy, marl and calcareous clay soils. After maceration on the skins for 16 days in concrete, this spent 18 months in Slovenian oak casks, followed by a tightening 6 months in stainless before bottling.
Hand-harvested, fermented and aged in mainly French plus some American and Hungarian oak for 18 months. Blue and black fruit on the nose with a hint of violet and sage precede a ripe and rounded palate of blackberry, plum and cassis notes supported by approachable tannins and moderate acidity with a good finish.
Pale yellow. Light, delicate nose with a mineral, limestone accent. Pleasant on the palate, delicate acidity, its taste is clean. Finishes a bit short.