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Australia
South Australia - Chardonnay
- ABV 12.8%
This bright and limpid wine shows luscious, tropical fruit and toasted notes on the nose, while remaining elegant and fresh. There is a pleasing texture on the palate, which offers smooth layers of ripe, creamy stone fruit balanced by refreshing acidity.
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France
Burgundy - Gamay
- ABV 14.0%
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Drink now / lay down
2024 - 2032
Champ de Cour is a south-east facing site, planted with 50+ year-old vines on granite soils, with pebbles under thick, dense clay. Dried herbs and deft exotic spices on the nose. The palate’s cool raspberry fruit is underscored by dark, rocky minerality, with black pepper and a savoury, sous bois herbaceousness. Substantial, but rendered so elegantly. A third whole bunch vinified in 2019, then aged in 600 litre old oak demi-muids for 15 months.
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Italy
Sicily - Nerello Mascalese
- ABV 14.5%
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Drink now / lay down
2020 - 2028
100% Nerello Mascalese. 100 year old vines at 800m altitude, planted upon a lava flow from Etna’s 1947 eruption. A slightly deeper hue of ruby, this has an intriguing nose of crystallised raspberries, roses, grapefruit and a meatiness suggestive of Syrah. The palate is insinuating, almost plush on the entry, before grippy tannins reveal themselves and the firm body grabs you, yet somehow avoids dominating. About as far from formulaic wine as it is possible to be, this is thrillingly uncompromising – analyse it too much and you’ll probably conclude that it shouldn’t work, but somehow it does!
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