Careful handling throughout the wine growing season ensured optimal grape flavors. Low-yields, hand-tending and careful cluster selection maximized concentrated ripeness and complex flavor development. Grapes were gently crushed and destemmed before entering stainless steel tanks for a long, cool fermentation, focusing the intrinsic brightness and vibrant strawberry and plum flavors. Keeping...
Gerard Bertrand Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Speciale 2009
This Cabernet Sauvignon is rounded, intensely fruity (cassis, red currant, plum) and subtle spices. It offers a perfect balance and a long finish. Best served at 64F with roast beer, poultry, or mature cheeses.
Dry, toasty, smooth and clean Saint Hilaire truly captivates with an attractive yeasty aroma and luscious creamy texture. The palate is light and crisp with citrus and apple flavors and the body is just hefty enough.
Many people are surprised to find that this microclimate is created by the influence of the distant Atlantic Ocean. Less well known than Burgundy and Champagne, it is similarly characterized as being a perfect climate for cool-weather varietals such as Pinot Noir. Delicate spice, exotic aromas with strawberries, sandalwood and vanilla,...
Grapes for the 2004 Red Bicyclette Syrah were sourced from the rocky, windswept southern French regions of the Aude, Minervois, Corbieres and Hersault. These areas are characterized by warm weather, which is particularly beneficial to Syrah, allowing it to achieve optimal ripeness, producing highly concentrated, full-flavored grapes. The 2004 harvest yielded...
Methode Ancestrale results in a lightly sparkling, medium-sweet wine. It involves bottling young wines before all residual sugar has been fermented into alcohol. Fermentation continues in the bottle and gives off carbon dioxide. The wine is designed to be sweeter and less fizzy than a champagne method sparkling and no dosage...
Domaine Terlato & Chapoutier Shiraz-Viognier 2009
A spicy Shiraz from the vineyards of Central Victoria brightens with a boost of Viognier for aroma and balance, as often practiced in France’s most highly regarded appellation of the Northern Rhone Valley, Côte Rôtie. The grapes grown in this Austrialian vineyard were planted on 19th century French rootstocks, another nod...
Louis Jadot Pouilly Fuisse 2010
The communes comprising the appellation of Pouilly-Fuissé lie in the south-central part of the Mâconnais district about twenty miles to the west of the village of Mâcon, and are clustered in a roughly contiguous area of about 1,400 acres; they are Pouilly, Fuissé, Solutré, Chaintré and Vergisson. Prior to the official...
