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Avignonesi GRANDI ANNATE Riserva Vino Nobile Montepulciano |
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Where it's from:
Italy, Tuscany, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
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£276.99
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Powerful Reds |
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The outstanding Vino Nobile produced by Avignonesi is their Grandi Annate, a blend of 85% Sangiovese and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Italy, Tuscany, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano |
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Avignonesi |
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Tenimenti Angelini TRE ROSE Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Tuscany
Description: In the center of the best area for Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, supremely situated at the top of a hill surrounded by vineyards, is the 17th century villa Tenuta Trerose. The estate encompasses 420 acres among the rolling hills near the town of Montepulciano, with 124 acres planted to vineyards specifically selected for making Vino Nobile. Made from a blend of 90% Prugnolo, a varient of the Sangiovese vine, 5% Canaiolo and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. The average age of vines used in production of this wine is 18 years with the harvest commencing in early October. Vinification takes place in steel tanks and the blend is aged 24 months in Slavonia oak barrel and bottle aged 3 months before the released for sale. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £171.94
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Corte alla Flora Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG
Description: Produced from 90% Prugnolo Gentile and 5% Merlot and 5% Cabernet. The wine is aged in Allier barriques for 24 months before release. Ruby red in colour with spicy, smoky nose and hints of violet, blackberry and raspberry. A wine of considerable aromatic impact and wealth of flavour. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £101.99
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Fattoria le Reniere LAPIA Cabernet Sauvignon Vino Rosso di Toscano IGT
Description: A vigorous and flavoured wine with subtle and herbaceous fragrances, this is a real expression of creativity and passion winemaker Claudio Fiore has produced. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine is vinified in small oak barrels for 12 months and matured in bottles. A grand red wine with non-autochthonous grapes. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £195.08
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Viu Manent VIU 1 Malbec Cabernet Sauvignon Colchagua Valley Chile
Description: Viu 1 is the result of men's work and nature's wisdom which, wilfully, blesses some of its cycles with exceptional conditions. This unique wine is produced only in these outstanding years, using a rigorous selection of premium grapes, worthy tribute to the memory of who conceived it, Don Miguel Viu Manent. Don Miguel, your dream has finally come true. áSalud con Vinos Viu! (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £377.08
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De Martino GRAN FAMILIA Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley Chile
Description: Our top-quality and most exclusive wine, the Gran Familia range is the pride of the De Martino family. Only the very best grapes are used in both varieties; Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère. These wines are aged in French oak barrels for 18 months and rested in our private cellars until their release. Both Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 and 2002 were selected Premium Wine of the Year in the prestigious Chilean wine guide, La Guia de Vinos de Chile 2004 and 2005 editions. Intensely deep-red colour with violet-coloured tints. A complex and alluring bouquet with berries and a slight hint of smoke and violets. This follows through to the palate, revealing a perfect balance of oak and fruit, resulting in a full-bodied wine with intense flavours. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £288.14
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Abadia Retuerta CUVEE EL PALOMAR Sardon De Duero Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon
Description: The contrast between the heat and sweetness of this wine represents the perfect expression of one of the best microclimates to be found in the most prestigious winemaking region in Spain.This symbiosis of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon from limestone soil located at an altitude of 750 m makes for an exceptional, generous and original Cuvee. This wine is produced by blending equal quantities of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon giving a wine deep in colour with a full rich and smokey nose that gives way to a ripe, plummy and berryish fruit on the palate. Its texture is smooth and meaty, and offers a long and potent aromatic finish from the 18 months ageing to strengthen its character. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £128.19
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Bodegas Olarra ACANTUS Tinto Vino de la Tierra de Castilla Spain
Description: The river Ebro flows through La Rioja from West to East and it is right in the middle of its course, passing through the city of Logrono that Bodegas Olarra is situated. A place where nature and man join forces to produce truly outstanding wines. Founded in 1973 by a group of notable businessmen who, as great lovers of Rioja wine and appreciative of quality, took the decision to produce the best Rioja wine on the market. Thanks to a perfect combination of traditional methods and the most advanced technology, Olarra has attracted some of the best wine making talent in Rioja producing wines with their own identity. Wine Description: 45% Tempranillo, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% others. A powerful full-bodied wine with predominant fruity aromas. Delicious rich notes of toasted wood and spices with ripe fruit tones. Well structured and round with a pleasant lingering raspberry aftertaste. Aged for 3 months in oak (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £62.23
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Abadia Retuerta RIVOLA Sardon De Duero Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon
Description: The Rivola is a blend of 60% Tempranillo and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon. The Tempranillo and Cabernet used for the Rivola were vinified separately, with lengthy maceration, including cold pre-fermentation maceration. The wine spent 12 months in new oak barrels, both French and American. It has a good depth of ruby red colour and is intensely perfumed with notes of coffee, and black cherry, overlaid with a spicy, vanilla aroma. On the palate the strawberry, cherry fruit character mingles with spices such as cloves and liquorice. The Cabernet gives depth and concentration to the ripe strawberry character of the Tempranillo. It is long, smooth and spicy to the finish. This 700 hectare estate, situated just to the west of the Ribera del Duero zone and only five kilometers down river from Vega Sicilia, has 210 hectares of vineyard. First planted in 1991, primarily on the northern, stonier and less fertile side of the Duero valley, the vineyards are immaculately tended, and comprised of 65% Tempranillo, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £134.81
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Abadia Retuerta SELECCION ESPECIAL Tinto Sardon de Duero Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon
Description: The Seleccion Especial is a blend of Tempranillo , Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot . It is intense dark plum in colour with great depth of red fruit and herbaceous on the nose, giving way to sweet spice and coffee on the nose. It boasts an excellent structure with full, red fruit from the Tempranillo, backbone and depth from the Cabernet and round, fleshy fruit from the Merlot. The wine is complex and intense, with layers of summer fruit, berries and rich sweet spices and a lengthy, rich finish. The Abadia Retuerta winery is located in the heart of the Golden Mile of Spanish winemaking between Tudela de Duero and Penafiel. First planted in 1991, primarily on the northern, stonier and less fertile side of the Duero valley, the estate covers 700 hectares, of which 204 are planted to vine. The estate comprises of 54 crus that are identified by the composition of their soil, their orientation, the variety growing in them and their micro-climate. The wine produced from each cru is different giving winemaker Angel Anocibar a great range of subtly different blending wines from which to choose for the Abadia Retuerta range. The Seleccion Especial comes from a careful selection of the best grapes of all the plots on the estate. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £188.59
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Weinert CAVAS de WEINERT Gran Vino Lujan de Cuyo Mendoza
Description: Weinert's flagship wine blended from Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Merlot and aged in French oak. Very ripe and intense on the nose with raisiny-plummy fruit, tobacco leaf and vanilla. Fine, vivid concentration of fruit, full aromatic tannins and a complex finish. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £74.34
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Princic Dario Vino Rosso Cabernet Sauvignon Collio
Description: Princic's wines have the same feel as those of La Stoppa and Valentini: totally unfiltered and minimally sulphured, they taste of the earth, of rock salts and bitter stony fruits, in other words edgily natural. The Cabernet Sauvignon is delightfully fresh and fragrant with the trademark Friuli herbaceous notes of peppermint and menthol backed by some lovely medicinal clove-tinctured wild berry fruit. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £177.84
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Avignonesi Rosso Avignonesi IGT Toscana
Description: Rosso Avignonesi is mid ruby red in colour, with aromas of plums on the nose. On the palate the wine has ripe tannins and plummy fruit, with savoury characters and slight spice on the finish. The Falvo brothers, who owned vineyards in the district of Cortona, took over Avignonesi in 1974 and invested heavily to build the estate. They sought out local varieties and also introduced international varieties such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Pinot Noir. Today, Avignonesi has 115 hectares of vineyard split between four estates. Two of the estates, Le Capezzine and I Poggetti, are situated in the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano zone, while the other two, La Selva and La Lombarda, are located further to the east in the Cortona D.O.C. zone. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £113.58
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Conterno Fantino MONPRA Piemonte
Description: Conterno Fantino was founded by the present owners in 1982. Claudio Conterno and longtime friend Guido Fantino shared bodly innovative ideas, with a solid basis in classic vineyard management. In 1994, they built a new, state-of-the-art winery high up in Monforte d'Alba, within the Bricco Bastia terroir and this became the heart of their estate. Scenically located with a view of the entire Alpi Piemontesi range, it includes vinification and maturation areas, here, technology and vinicultural know-how play fundamental roles. However, the Conterno Fantino philosophy is firmly based on meticulous vineyard management, for great Piemontese wine starts in the vineyarde. Monpra production began in 1984 with a blend of Barbera and Nebbiolo. From the 1992 vintage, Cabernet Sauvignon was added. Originally, D.O.C. regulations did not allow this sort of blend, which was therefore simply denominated 'Vino da Tavola', although in 1994, the regulations changed and the new denomination of 'Langhe Rosso' included blends of different wines. This deep red coloured wine is a blend of Nebbiolo, Barbera and Cabernet Sauvignon the three wines are aged separately for 18 months in small oak barrels , and blended just before bottling. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £382.22
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De Martino GRAN FAMILIA Carmenere Maipo Valley Chile
Description: Our top-quality and most exclusive wine, the Gran Familia range is the pride of the De Martino family. Only the very best grapes are used in both varieties; Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère. These wines are aged in French oak barrels for 18 months and rested in our private cellars until their release. Both Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 and 2002 were selected Premium Wine of the Year in the prestigious Chilean wine guide, La Guia de Vinos de Chile 2004 and 2005 editions. Grown in our own vineyards in the Maipo Valley, smooth and round on the nose, this complex wine boasts an attractive range of berry, cherry and plum flavours that fill out the mid palate and continue on the finish. It shows great finesse and style. The finish is long, with a perfectly integrated aftertaste of fruit and oak. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £288.14
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Conterno Fantino MONPRA Piemonte
Description: Conterno Fantino was founded by the present owners in 1982. Claudio Conterno and longtime friend Guido Fantino shared bodly innovative ideas, with a solid basis in classic vineyard management. In 1994, they built a new, state-of-the-art winery high up in Monforte d'Alba, within the Bricco Bastia terroir and this became the heart of their estate. Scenically located with a view of the entire Alpi Piemontesi range, it includes vinification and maturation areas, here, technology and vinicultural know-how play fundamental roles. However, the Conterno Fantino philosophy is firmly based on meticulous vineyard management, for great Piemontese wine starts in the vineyarde. Monpra production began in 1984 with a blend of Barbera and Nebbiolo. From the 1992 vintage, Cabernet Sauvignon was added. Originally, D.O.C. regulations did not allow this sort of blend, which was therefore simply denominated 'Vino da Tavola', although in 1994, the regulations changed and the new denomination of 'Langhe Rosso' included blends of different wines. This deep red coloured wine is a blend of Nebbiolo, Barbera and Cabernet Sauvignon the three wines are aged separately for 18 months in small oak barrels , and blended just before bottling. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £382.22
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