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Argento Wine Company LIBERTAD Malbec/Shiraz Mendoza Argentina
Description: Tasting Note Ripe, juicy red with smooth tannins and bags of fruit. Raspberry, violets and blackberries dominate the nose with a touch of vanilla enhancing the berries on the palate. 13% A 50-50 blend of Argentina's best red grape, Malbec and Bonarda, a long-term Italian ex-pat that is doing great things in the hills around Mendoza. The result is a ripe, full fruited wine with bags of spicy character to make it stand out from the crowd. Superb value, it would make a happy partner for a ribeye steak grilled medium rare. A bit about Libertad Libertad are produced by Argento, which since its launch in 1999 has quickly become the leading range of wines from Argentina in the UK and represents an exciting new era in Argentine winemaking. The winemaking team uses the latest in cellar technology to craft wines that meet the highest quality standards and show the best characteristics of the unique vine growing conditions. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £60.38
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Iona Wines Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Elgin RSA
Description: Elgin is an emerging grape growing region east of Cape Town, previously known as a hard fruit growing area , and enjoys cool climate conditions ideal for the production of wine. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £89.34
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Marziano & Enrico Abbona Roero Arneis DOCG Piedmont
Description: A really outstanding wine from a little known grape in the UK, but worth the experimentation. The wine is full, delicately dry, robust and fresh, with an aromatic bouquet. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £154.82
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Jackson Wine Estates LA CREMA Pinot Noir Anderson Valley California
Description: Part of Jackson Wine Estates, La Crema winery was founded in 1979 and quickly established itself as a pioneer for intensely flavoured Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. This wine is from the Anderson Valley known for sloping hillside benches thta are blanketed by cool fog from the nearby Pacific Ocean during the heat of the summer growing season. These moderating conditions are ideal in cultivating Pinot Noir with naturally bright acidity and delicate red cherry and cranberry fruit aromas. The Anderson Valley is Mendocino’s premier growing region for Pinot Noir and this wine used the Dijon, heirloom Martini and Pommard clones to enhance the aroma and complexity. In the vineyard fruit-thinning is undertaken to remove late flowering clusters ensuring even ripening throughout the vineyards. Next the fruit is handpicked from the cool climate vineyards and delivered to the winery in small half ton bins to protect the integrity of the fruit. Once in the winery the Pinot Noir grapes are put on to a belt delivery system with sorting table to purge damaged fruit. Here only 70% of the whole berries are selected before fermentation takes place for greater fruit expression. Next a five day, 48 degree cold soak is completed before fermentation so that it enhances the silky tannin texture. Open top fermentation with cap punch downs four times daily extracts precise colour before the wine is aged 10 months in 100% French oak barrels refines the finish. Finally the Pinot Noir is bottled unfiltered and unfined to express the pure character of this great varietal. Winemaker Melissa Stackhouse had the following comments to make about this wine: 'Exotic aromas are delicate and floral with a hint of blueberry and herbal black tea. The flavours are focused on lush dark red cherry fruit which provides an enticing plush texture. Bright acidity accented by cranberry and red cherries create a seductive fruit entry that leads to a broad lingering finish.' (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £102.48
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Jackson Wine Estates YANGARRA ESTATE Grenache McLaren Vale South Australia
Description: Yangarra means 'From the earth' in an aboriginal dialect, and it is this philosophy that we try and reflect in our wines — minimum human intervention in viticulture and winemaking to produce special wines that reflect their terroir. 100% McLaren Vale estate grown fruit , once in the winery this wine spent 18 months in one and two year old French oak barriques. Made from grapes harvested off of old bush vines growing in the sand since 1946 is displaying wonderful terroir character. Big, rich tannic wine with aromas like spiced mullled fruit and good balancing sweet oak, the thick, rich palate has vey good mid-palate fruit earth tones leading to a long finish.' Peter Fraiser, Winemaker (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £183.68
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