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Wakefield Estate PROMISED LAND Unwooded Chardonnay Clare Valley South Australia |
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Where it's from:
Australia, South Australia, Clare Valley
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£97.61
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12 x 75 cl |
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Rich Dry Whites |
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Really lifted fruit character on the nose moving one to a palate full of honey dew melon and a buttery yeastiness. (12 x 75 cl)
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Australia, South Australia, Clare Valley |
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Wakefield Estate |
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23236 |
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NSG Boudots
Description: NSG Boudots from Burgundy by Tardy J Fine Wine (12 x 75cl)
Price: £404.20
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Chateau Bouscasse Madiran
Description: The history of winemaking in Madiran goes back to Gallo-Roman times. They have had the same soil for a period of 40,000 years! Alain Brumont started winemaking over twenty years ago with his father. Today he owns 10% of the total vineyards in Madiran. Alain Brumont took up the challenge of placing Madiran on the map of renowned wines. His defence of the Tannat grape is passionate while the rest of the world seems content with just a few well-known grape varieties. With tenacity, he took the best terroir of the region for the Tannat grape, which makes up the majority if not 100% of his blends. The excellence that Alain Brumont has achieved with his wines has been the result of observation, reflection and, ultimately for all great wines, a sacrifice of high yields. His yield is limited to between 30 and 40 hectolitres per hectare (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £94.86
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Climens
Description: Climens from Bordeaux by NA Fine Wine (12 x 75cl)
Price: £1292.50
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Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint Julien 4eme Cru Classe OWC
Description: Branaire-Ducru's vineyards are planted with Cabernet Sauvignon 70%, Merlot 22%, Cabernet Franc 5%, Petit Verdot 3%. The wine blend has even more Cabernet Sauvignon, up to 85%, is incorporated reflecting one of the highest Sauvignon blends in the Medoc. The wines are matured in oak barriques 35% new each vintage. This is a deep red/purple-colored stylish sexy concotion of raspberries, graphite, smpke, minerals and flowers. The complex aromatics are followed by a medium to full-bodied, seamless St.Julien displaying velvety tannin, medium body and sweet concentrated fruit in a well-constructed elegant style. The tannin is unobstrusive and well-integrated. Available in the original wooden case. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £502.71
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Chateau de Fuisse St-Veran
Description: Rich, full and concentrated with super balance, minerality and freshness, showing the amazing quality that Jean Jaques Vincnet now attains at Chateau de Fuisse. The Chateau de Fuisse is located in the heart of the Maconnais vineyards in southern Burgundy. In this famous region, the Vincent family , produce wines of an exceptional quality thanks to the estate's outstanding location. Jean-Jacques Vincent, the current owner since 1966, is the worthy heir to this proud family heritage, as an agricultural engineer and oenologist, he has dedicated his life to the running of the family estate. He ensures that the authenticity of the product is constantly respected through a judicious combination of new technology and traditional methods. The majority of the estate's 30 hectares of vineyards are located in the districts of Fuisse and Pouilly , halfway up the hillsides with a south-south-easterly aspect. The argilo-calcareous soil with its variable proportions of clay and chalk give the wines both structure and elegance. Of varying ages, the vines are harvested separately and manually according to the 'climats' concerned. The Chardonnay grapes are transferred whole to the estate where they undergo slow pneumatic pressing to gently extract all the goodness of the juice. The vines are cared for using traditional methods, applying sustainable viticulture and totally organic fertilizer, thereby safeguarding the future of the plots farmed, while at the same time respecting their individual characters. The soil is always farmed in parcels in order to limit erosion and guarantee authenticity. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £133.88
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Chateau Potensac Cru Bourgeois Medoc
Description: Chateau Potensac is owned by the Delon family, owner of the illustrious estates Leoville-Las Cases, in St Julien, and Nenin, in Pomerol. Like Sociando-Mallet, Potensac is yet another chateau which illustrates the defunct nature of the 1855 classification of Bordeaux. Potensac regularly turns out wines of classed growth quality, but has only a Cru Bourgeois designation, although in the most recent Cru Bourgeois classification, in 2003, it was accorded Cru Bourgeois Exceptionel status. The vineyards of Potensac are located in Ordonnac in Médoc. The blend is predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon, with approximately 40% Merlot and Cabernet Franc combined. Production from just over 120 acres of vineyard amounts to 25000 cases per year. There are many reasons why Potensac is so successful, but like all great wines the success has its roots in the vineyard. Restricted yields of approximately 35 hl/ha, however, is just the start of it. Temperature controlled fermentation and rigorous selection for the 'grand vin' are other important factors. Michel and Jean-Hubert Delon eschew filtration, although they do fine the wines using egg whites, an acceptable and widely used practice. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £289.64
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Cline Cellars RED TRUCK California
Description: At the turn of the 20th century, Oakley was home to a number of Portuguese and Italian immigrants who found many similarities to the Mediterranean climate they had left behind. They planted thousands of acres of orchards and vineyards. Today, a century later, due to the devastation of phylloxera and the encroachment of commercial and residential development, only 600 acres of vineyards remain in this evolving community. Cline Cellars owns and controls 300 of those acres including some of the oldest surviving vines in California. Cline Cellars began when Fred Cline's maternal grandfather, Valeriano Jacuzzi lived in Oakley and inspired him to go on to to U.C. Davis to study agriculture management. After attaining his degree in 1982, Fred returned to Oakley and founded Cline Cellars. There he started producing wines and restoring his grandfather’s ancient vines: today the Zinfandel, Carignane and Mourvedre produced from these vines are some of the most unique and historic wines made in California. In 1991, the winery relocated from Oakley to the Carneros region of Sonoma County. Here Fred pioneered the planting of Rhone varietals including Syrah, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne. This red is a blend of 37% Syrah, 27% Petite Sirah, 23% Cabernet Franc and the balance is Grenache and Mourvedre. The grapes were picked and then gently crushed and pumped to the stainless fermentation tank. The wines received pump-overs thrice daily to aid flavor extraction. The free run juice was then drained from the tank to another settling tank and the grapes were pressed and re-combined. The wine settled for about two weeks and then racked to a combination of neutral oak barrels and temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. The Syrah saw a mix of both French and American oak. Great care from the vineyard to the winery has produced a deep red coloured wine that is showing medium-bodied and delicious flavours of dark berries, licorice and chocolate with smooth tannins and enjoyable finish. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £116.52
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Concha y Toro TERRUNYO Sauvignon Blanc Casablanca Valley Chile
Description: 'Terrunyo' is the Spanish word for the French 'terroir', carrying all the same implications of micro-climate, soil and exposure to sun. The Sauvignon Blanc is grown in the sandy soil of Concha y Toro's El Triangulo vineyard, with a cool climate moderated by the Pacific breezes. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £61.69
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Domaine du Jas d'Esclans Cotes de Provence Blanc AC
Description: Organic, vegetarian. A classy Provencal white with elegance and poise that can't help but please with its fine features and Gallic charm. Fresh and clean with delicate pear and apple flavours on the nose and a sherbetty, fresh finish. A classic blend of C (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £116.11
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Thelema Mountain Vineyards Merlot Stellenbosch RSA
Description: In July 1983 the McLean Family Trust bought the old fruit farm Thelema, situated on the top of the Helshoogte Pass about 6 kilometers outside of Stellenbosch. This purchase was the culmination of a long search by Gyles and Barbara Webb for that rare location where exceptional wines could be made. The farm comprises 157 ha of land on the slopes of the Simonsberg. The elevation ranges from 370 to 640 meters above sea level of mainly south-facing slopes, making Thelema one of the highest and probably coolest wine farms in the Stellenbosch area. The Merlot grapes are de-stalked, crushed, pumped into stainless steel tanks and pumped over for 6 days & left for 5 days before pressing. The wine is then aged 20 months in French oak, 20% of which is new wood. This wine has a deep red colour with lovely berry fruit flavours and a fine woody structure. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £104.68
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Citran
Description: Citran from Bordeaux by NA Fine Wine (12 x 75cl)
Price: £182.13
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Concha y Toro EXPLORER Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley Chile
Description: Bright, deep red in colour. With cherry, chocolate and a smoke led prescence. The oak and core still cloaks its aromas, but in time all the firm fruit should evolve from straight on power to more complexity. A smooth almost silky texture masks the firm tannic structure beneath, which really comes to the fore at the beginning of the long finish. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £81.27
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Fleur de Lys French Medium Dry White Vin de Table
Description: This wine sourced from the Gascony area of south-west France, is typically aromatic using the Ugni Blanc and Colombard grapes.
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Familie Saahs Nikolaihof Gruner Veltliner im Weingebirge Federspiel
Description: At Nikolaihof the Saahs Family cultivates 20 hectares of vineyards in the best locations on mineral-rich, steep-sloped, sunny terraces of granite, gneiss and mica . Some 55% of the vines are Riesling, about 35% Grüner Veltliner and the remaining 10% are divided between Neuburger, Weiburgunder, Fruhroter Veltliner and Chardonnay. To achieve higher quality the annual quantity of grapes harvested is very strictly limited. In the Nikolaihof vineyards harvesting is carried out by hand and to maintain the quality standards of Nikolaihof great attention is paid to the ripeness of the grapes. The grapes are pressed straight away and then, without any additives or treatment, using only the grapes' own yeasts, the fermentation takes place in a huge wooden vat at the natural temperature without any cooling or computer-calculated fermentation techniques. The great differences between day and night temperatures in the last weeks before the harvest produce a unique range of fruit flavours and bouquets, perfumes and aromas coupled with the very finest acidity. The Saahs family operates in accordance with the regulations of the Demeter Association, one of the strictest control systems of organic agriculture. Its principles may be very roughly summed up as follows: to get as much power and energy as possible into the wine whilst interfering with nature as little as possible. In the Nikolaihof vineyards no herbicides, pesticides, artificial fertilisers nor synthetic sprays are used, but stinging nettle manure, valerian drops, valerian tea and other specially produced preparations, which are applied in highly diluted form like homeopathic medicines, are used. The whole farm or enterprise must be run along biodynamic guidelines. Regular state inspections ensure that these working principles are properly applied. The biodynamic wine estate is regulated through the Austrian wine code, the Austrian foodstuffs codex and the EU directive 'Ecological Agriculture'. Nikolaihof is the oldest wine estate in Austria, whose history goes back almost 2000 years to Roman times. In the walls of Nikolaihof can be found remains of the early Christian Agapit basilica in which Bishop Pilgrim of Passau held a synod in 985 A.D. In 1075 the former 'Freihof' was referred to in a document as the central administrative seat of the Passau monastery of St Nikola; the present-day chapel was established by the Augustinian canons of this monastery. Wine has been produced here since the time of the Celts. The first documentary evidence of this dates from around 470 A.D. in the time of St Severin and the Romans. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £174.62
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