Fattorie Romeo del Castello ‘Allegracore’ Etna Rosso 2013, Sicily, Italy (£19.50 Tanners) Intriguing wine, gently spicy with a hint of smoky bacon – oak or not? – alongside the warm, plummy red cherry and strawberry flavours. Lovely violet fragrance too, but there’s also a whack of tannin for a backbone. […]
Grapes
Khareba Mtsvane 2013, Kakheti, Georgia (£9.95 Tanners) Not huge amount of aroma initially but opens up to show some citrus and pear notes, plus a pine-like aroma and touches of honey and walnuts. Maybe not as crisp as it could be, but I like the rounded texture. B(-) Khareba Saperavi […]
Two wines from Georgia
Find myself enjoying Errázuriz whites more than the reds at the moment… Errázuriz Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay 2013, Chile (£16.15 Noel Young, Stone Vine & Sun, Hailsham Cellars, Kingsgate Wines, North & South Wines, The Wine Reserve, DeFINE, Beaconsfield Wine Cellars, Whalley Wine Shop, Dike & Sons, Peake Wine Associates, Village […]
Errázuriz Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay 2013, Chile
Does just what it should do – as I have to say a lot of supermarket Chablis does at the moment Asda Extra Special Chablis Domaine de la Levée 2013, Burgundy, France (£11 Asda) Classic Chablis combo of leanness and fatness, with the tense (but ripe) citrus and greengage flavours […]
Asda Extra Special Chablis Domaine de la Levée 2013, Burgundy, ...
The last of the catch-up-on-tasting-notes posts (see intro HERE if that doesn’t make sense) Blind Spot Chardonnay 2014, Yarra Valley, Australia (£7.95 The Wine Society) Dry, crisp, tangy young wine, lots of taut apple and lemon flavours balanced by leesy richness, pure and clean, but not lacking depth, brilliant value. S- […]
Five Chardonnays from Australia, New Zealand & France
… all of them excellent. The penultimate of the catch-up-on-tasting-notes posts (see intro HERE if that doesn’t make sense) Viña Real Rioja Reserva 2009, Spain (£17.99 Berry Bros & Rudd, Wimbledon, Partridges, DeFINE, Tanners) Relaxed, open-hearted wine, with sweet berry flavours, meaty/earthy overtones and fine tannins, gentle but persistent, hard to ignore now, but […]