Wines (12 View)

94 points Wine Advocate
The 2018 Les Terrasses Velles Vinyes is a blend of 55% Garnacha with 44% Carinena and 1% white grapes. The destemmed and lightly crushed grapes fermented in concrete and oak vats with indigenous yeasts, and the wine matured in barriques for 13 months. It keeps the more rustic side of their wines but with the finesse of 2018. It's a wine marked by a high percentage of Carinena, but it's velvety, fresh and harmonious but with the dustier tannins. This is the British farmer, rustic but elegant with his Land Rover, the Wellington boots, corduroy trousers and a Barbour jacket... but with a Priorat twang.

93 points Vinous
Shimmering violet. Expressive aromas of cherry, blueberry and pipe tobacco pick up floral and exotic spice nuances with aeration. Concentrated yet energetic in the mouth, offering red and blue fruit, floral pastille and candied licorice flavors sharpened by smoky mineral and spice flourishes. Fine-grained tannins give shape to a very long, spicy finish that leaves a sappy blue fruit note behind.

The wine exhibits a glass-coating opaque purple color with an expressive nose of pain grille, underbrush, brier, mineral, blueberry, and blackberry fruit leading to a plush, opulent wine with great density, savory flavors, and a lengthy finish.

This is the perfect wine for the full-bodied wine lover. Clio is comprised of mostly Monastrell, with a little Cabernet Sauvignon, from Spain’s Jumilla region. The wine showcases that deep, dark blackberry fruit that only Monastrell can provide. The new 2020 vintage is a stunner once again and is a candidate for the best yet! The 2020 vintage in this part of Spain is near perfection, so, you know 2020 Clio is going to be rockin’!

93 points Wine Advocate
This is the so-called "green label" Brunello with proprietor Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini's signature on the front of the bottle. Her classic 2017 Brunello di Montalcino is sharp and tonic with wild raspberry, cassis, lilac, earth and garden herb. There is a sweet note of sour cherry on the mid-weight finish. This is an ample 160,000-bottle production made in a traditional approach with two years in casks made with both Slavonian and French oak.

...an exuberant, flamboyant, modern-styled St.-Emilion displaying an inky/plum/purple color, a big, sweet, ostentatious bouquet (smoke, new oak, blackberries, cassis), low acidity, a dense, chewy personality, abundant fruit and glycerin, and plenty of flesh covering its structural skeleton. - WA92

Review is on the 2018 vintage.

Polished aromas of lovely ripe dark fruit and chocolatey spicy oak, with floral and herbal notes. An expressive and fresh palate with purity of fruit, juicy tannins, and a solid length. Approachable now and will age well. - 97 pts Decanter

Organic / Biodynamic / Natural / No Added Sulfites

Alice Bouvot and Charle's Dagand are disciples of the Pope of Arbois, Jacques Puffeney, and craft wines with similar purity and distinct sense of place. Sylvaner with 2 month maceration, spontaneous fermentation in tanks with indigenous yeast.

Winemaker's Notes:
The Pouilly-Fuissé is a blend of the best vineyard parcels with 10- to 35-year-old vines from the Fuissé amphitheater of limestone and clay soils. Each parcel is vinified separately to ensure the finest expression of the fruit. Half the wine is fermented in enameled tanks and half in used oak barrels.
Subtle notes include minerals, yellow fruits, flowers, fresh hazelnuts and spices, with an intense finish. The perfect equilibrium of this wine allows it to retain its vibrancy with age.

Organic / Biodynamic / Natural

De-stemmed and vinified in a combination of larger wood tanks and stainless using natural yeasts. Aged 12 months 300-600 gallon neutral barriques.

Trousseau is difficult to cultivate and gives low but regular yields. It has a thicker skin which is more resistant than Poulsard; it is adapting better to global warming.

The nose has a beautiful intensity, notes of pepper, red berries, and autumn leaves. The body is a light ruby color containing silky notes of dark cherries and smoked meats. There is a svory aspect to this wine that is fascinating. The wine continues to open up with time to display how graceful it really is. Enjoy with roast meats, cuts of beef or waterfowl and cheese. Keep for 12 to 15 years.

92pts- Wine Spectator:
Plush and rich-tasting, with finely interwoven flavors of dark cherry, plum tart and blackberry accented by cocoa powder notes.