Robert's Rock Cabernet Merlot RSA
Description: Robert's Rock Cabernet Merlot RSA from South Africa by Robert's Rock Powerful Reds (12 x 75 cl) Price: £80.42
Gallo Family Vineyards TWO ROCK Chardonnay Sonoma California
Description: After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Ernest & Julio Gallo started their winery in California. Unable to obtain bank loans, they rented a warehouse and bought equipment on credit. More than sixty years later, the Gallo family still controls one of the world's most successful wine companies. The Gallo philosophy of continual improvement saw Julio Gallo travelling throughout California seeking high quality grapes and vineyards; he came to the conclusion that Sonoma County has the finest growing area in California. Its complex geography provides an endless variety of growing conditions, and eleven viticultural appellations have been established in Sonoma. A silky chardonnay which is bright and crisp with a flinty, minerally edge. This wine will develop over the next 3 (6 x 75 cl) Price: £111.39
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Gallo Family Vineyards TWO ROCK Vineyard Chardonnay Sonoma
Description: Our Two Rock Chardonnay is delicate yet layered with flavor. This is a bright and crisp wine, with elegant pear, apple and citrus flavors and a long, smooth finish. A non-traditional Chardonnay, this wine has a mineral characteristic that was imparted from the soil at our Two Rock Vineyard. In creating our Two Rock Chardonnay, we pressed whole clusters to reduce phenolic extraction and impart a silkier, more refined texture to the wine. Once pressed, 43% of the wine was barrel aged for an average of 6 months in French oak, while 57% was fermented in stainless steel to maintain the bright, crisp fruit flavors. Our family's Two Rock Vineyard is located in the benchlands of the southern-most tip of California's Sonoma Coast appellation. This location is also one of the coolest climates in Sonoma County with heavy fog intrusion from the San Francisco Bay that lingers for most of the day. As a result, the Chardonnay grapes ripen very slowly to showcase their refreshing acidity and concentrated citrus, apple, and pear flavors and aromas. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £91.29
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Gallo Family Vineyards COPPERIDGE Red Zinfandel California
Description: After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Ernest & Julio Gallo started their winery in California. Unable to obtain bank loans, they rented a warehouse and bought equipment on credit. More than sixty years later, the Gallo family still controls one of the world's most successful wine companies. The Gallo philosophy of continual improvement saw Julio Gallo travelling throughout California seeking high quality grapes and vineyards; he came to the conclusion that Sonoma County has the finest growing area in California. Its complex geography provides an endless variety of growing conditions, and eleven viticultural appellations have been established in Sonoma (12 x 75 cl) Price: £89.25
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Gallo Family Vineyards SONOMA COUNTY Merlot California
Description: Winemaking has been a tradition in the Gallo family for almost 70 years and in developing the Ernest & Julio Gallo Sonoma wines, the winemakers have made a careful journey from vine to wine. The journey begins in Sonoma County where cool ocean breezes, lingering coastal fog and the warm sun nurture the ripening grapes. It ends with patient barrel-by-barrel tasting during fermentation and ageing to ensure that the potential tasted on the vine is captured in the bottle. Merlot is easy to like but difficult to make, because it is a wine that requires perfect balance of flavour, texture and complexity. Over the years Sonoma County Merlot has steadily gained a reputation, a direct result of the quality of its fruit. Merlot grapes thrive in an environment that, during the growing season, features an ideal combination of warm daytime temperatures and cooler conditions at night, usually with fog intrusion from the coast. Such conditions allow the grapes to mature slowly on the vines, building concentrated flavour and character in the process. When vineyards produce grapes bursting with intense varietal taste, it gives the winemakers a more varied palate to work with in the cellar and prior to fermentation, the harvest was de-stemmed but not crushed. When fewer grape skins are broken and mashed, the extraction of excessive tannin can be controlled more easily. Winemakers also employed a variety of fermentation techniques, splitting the task between upright and rotary tanks. Different methods emphasise different character traits in the wine. Finally, American and French oak ageing barrels were chosen to impart a soft, vanilla layer of complexity during the eight months this wine was aged. This vintage wins favour first with its inviting aromas of red cherry, berry and currant, laced with spicy hints of cedar. A taste reveals a palate rich in flavours of wild berry and soft notes of vanilla oak, the reward for nearly eight months of patient ageing in barrels with a medium to heavy toast. Well balanced and graceful this wine culminates in a long finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £71.03
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