Beautiful Santa Maria elegance, 13.5% alc, Pale, yet terrific weight on the palate, wonderful mouth coating feel, silky and long finish.
Where do you acquire this wine - Some said that Majestic once had this in their fine wine warehouse, I've found it, £38 each
Very difficult to describe this flavour, let me try. The wine has that extraordinary streak of medium ground peppercorns running through, just after the glorious mid palate, that adds a certain sophistication that is never achieved at the budget level. The wine is the hallmark black cherry tasting of free running juice from the dark magenta cherries picked off the tree. There is not a wisper of jammy confection in the flavour, such purity, so perfect. Complex mushroom / fungi, and sweet forest floor pine needles as well as leaf mould. A Heavenly aroma.
Be sure to decant at least an hour before serving, as this wine builds and builds.
Ok, the wine has the pepper streak found in Corton and best Aloxe Corton, whilst also having similar attributes found in Vosne Romanee in very ripe years. A certain pale and bright garnet mystery - that delivers an unbelievable weight on the palate, pale and powerful, so rare these days.
The very opposite of the style that R Parker would / may have you all swooning over. I think Mel would love this wine, and Shez and GK.
Real class, lovingly made, perhaps the top quality François Frères barrels add to the wine's beauty and subtle complexity
For the typical burgundian lover, I believe today, this is probably the Best 'for my palate' New World Pinot Noir I have ever tasted.
Here is a wacky article about the unconventional owner and wine maker: http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2014/03/ ... -clendenen
A wine that goes near the top of my memory gallery, and for me, great QPR
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