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Germany
Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 9.5%
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Lay down
2025 - 2037
The nose here is an aromatic delight – green apples, white flowers and honeysuckle. The palate is reassuringly plump – or cushioned is perhaps more accurate, as it sacrifices nothing in linear precision and laser-like acidity. You can feel the added warmth of the Doctor’s steep slope, turned like a solar panel to the afternoon sun. A reference Kabinett.
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France
Jura - Poulsard
- ABV 12.5%
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Drink now / lay down
2020 - 2028
Poulsard is almost like a rosé in colour but certainly not in taste – quite a serious drop. The nose is dominated by flowers, small red berries and mineral notes of crushed stones. On the palate it is Pinot Noir-esque, but a
marked saltiness reveals Poulsard. The wine is already open, probably a signature of the vintage. Yet you feel it is young and will age beautifully thanks to the salinity. It is a great wine for gastronomy or on its own. The plots are in Montigny and Arbois; the wines are between 25 and 60 years and planted on marl and calcareous sands,very soft and called here schistes cartons, because of
their aspect of layered cardboard.
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France
Rhone - Grenache Blanc Blend
- ABV 13.5%
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Drink now / lay down
2021 - 2026
This comes from various sites around Châteauneuf, including Font de Michelle. 40% Grenache, 30% Roussanne, This comes from various sites around Châteauneuf, including Font de Michelle. 40% Grenache, 30% Roussanne, 20% Clairette and 10% Bourboulenc, the latter two varieties bringing freshness and moderating the overall alcohol content. This is such a chiselled, energic wine, brilliantly focused and linear. White flowers and nervy minerality, driving through to a long, taut finish. Really exciting stuff. It is fermented in barrel with eight months lees contact, half of the Roussanne being aged in new oak barrels.
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