Alpha Domus AD The Aviator 2007, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand (~£30 McKinley Vintners) Complete, complex wine, with deep, dark berry, plum and blackcurrant flavours enhanced by an earthy, tobacco leaf character and a dense, almost savoury finish. Great combo of plushness with freshness, fine-grained tannins and great length, served the […]
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Niepoort The Senior Tawny Port (£18.99 Lea and Sandeman, Bottle Apostle, Butlers Wine Cellar, Duncan Murray) Hovering at a very attractive stage between freshness and maturity, this combines lively fresh red berry flavours with more relaxed caramel, raisin, walnut and mellow old wood characters. Very tasty S(-) Taylor’s 10 Year […]
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El Esteco Tannat 2011, Calchaqui Valley, Argentina (£7.49 Marks and Spencer) Plush, chocolatey and fleshy, offers New World sweetness and ripeness of fruit with Old World earthiness, just on right side of raisinny, with a meaty edge to its plummy blackberry flavours. B+ Domaine Chiroulet Côtes de Gascogne Grande Réserve […]
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The Exquisite Collection Gavi 2012, Piedmont, Italy (£4.99 Aldi) Slightly nutty with a soft, gentle, peachy character, a touch of cooked apple and a crisp finish. Simple but quite tasty. B- Le Vaglie Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi 2012, Marche (~£13 Penistone Wine Cellar) Shows notes of nutmeg and cinnamon […]
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Château Patache d’Aux Médoc 2006 (£12.95 The Wine Society) Starts off showing savoury notes (brett), but as the wine comes out of its shell, the juicy blackcurrant and berry fruit emerges, along with a slightly salty tang. The fruit flavours are mellowing, but this is still chunky chewy wine. B+ […]
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Knightor Madeleine Angevine 2011, Cornwall, England (£12.50- £13.99 Ellis Wharton Wines, Wadebridge Wines, Knightor Vineyard, Wine in Cornwall) Combines a ‘green’ grassy nettle and floral character with a softer richer ripe apple and even nectarine note, and adds in a touch of icing sugar – think of the dusting on […]