Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale

Tardieu-Laurent, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Speciale(100% grenache from La Crau) Opaque ruby. Highly perfumed bouquet of red and dark berry preserves, flowers, fruit pit and sassafras. Sweet, palate staining black raspberry and mulberry flavors are framed by velvety tannins and become spicier and more energetic on the back end. Big and gripping but surprisingly graceful wine with very good finishing lift and precision. This saw no new oak. Josh Raynolds

A zesty cracked pepper quality adds urgency to the deep

Very deep garnet-purple in color

99 ha parcel in Champs Traversin)

humus and a hint of animale

the 2015 Kraehe Shiraz (pronounced kray) has a deep garnet-purple color and profoundly scented nose of blackberry and blueberry preserves

this Rosso is ready to roll

It is one of the finest Chardonnays I have tasted from Rhys

But what makes this wine so impressive is just the sheer complexity and at least at this early juncture

the 2016 Chateauneuf du Pape Piedlong is 90% Grenache (from the Piedlong lieu-dit) and 10% Mourvèdre

Tasted blind at the 10-Year On Tasting in Sauternes

25 grams per liter

The second Riserva personally overseen by Franco Biondi Santi arrived in a moderate season