After pressing dried grapes from making Amarone, Valpolicella wine is passed over the still warm skins of Amarone for 2nd alcoholic fermentation, increasing the alcoholic content, aromas and color. Blend of 85% Corvina, 10% Rondinella, 5% Oseleta. Deep Ruby with aromas of sweet dried berry fruits and pepper spice. On the palate ripe blackberry, currants and sweet cherry with complex spice. Well balanced with acidity and alcohol, full-body with soft tannins on long finish. Nice value. — 2 days ago
Last had 2 years ago and the extra time has been good to this. Really a lovely burgundy with some rotisserie chicken on the first snowy day of the season in New York. Red fruit, light earth, and minerality all in balance and expressing very nicely. Finishes with good acid and a real lift. Delicious. — 2 days ago
Delicious — 2 days ago
Delicious. Light and fruity but with some depth. — 2 days ago
Only 1911 bottles made!
100% Pinot Noir!
This is Bottle 1483 de la Cuvée 87, Dégorgée à Bouzy, le 01-07-2020
50% from the 1996 harvest, 25% from 1995 and 25% from 1997 harvest.
Paired with Oysters 🦪 “oesterij specials”
On the nose apple, pear, hazelnuts, brioche, honey, toast, Full bodied palate with lovely fruit flavors, chalky mineralty, crispy and complex, fine acidity, roasted almonds, refined mousse. 94 DSP
— 2 days ago
This is an oddball from the Gaia team and quite $$$. The half empty wine- bottle gained weight and flavor in my fridge door over a full week. Touch bitter, apricot, stone fruits, still very fresh and alive, citrus notes, touch honey 🍯 and some sprinkles of nuttiness. I wonder how this will evolve over the next five to ten years? It certainly has the stuffing to do so - kind of a sleeper wine. Given its evolution in the fridge, (shaken but not stirred à la James Bond). — 2 days ago

Iwan
A little bigger than I would hope for from a Cab Franc but delightful nonetheless. — a day ago