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Love the fruit on the center palate here with its brightness and vivid acidity. Citrus undertones and a fresh finish....
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Love the fruit on the center palate here with its brightness and vivid acidity. Citrus undertones and a fresh finish....
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Very pretty and finely formed with currant, cherry and raspberry character. Medium to full body, firm and silky...
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Very pretty and finely formed with currant, cherry and raspberry character. Medium to full body, firm and silky...
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While few people get excited about second wines, the reality today is that the top estates are making such a strict...
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An attractive nose with red fruit and an array of red flowers that lead to a palate that has red fruit at its core...
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#37 Top 100 Cellar Selection 2019. This is a rich, perfumed wine, with dense tannins and intense layers of black plum...
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The incredible succulent power in Ausone puts a different perspective on other wines, as it so often does. The...
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Readers will find a rich, flamboyant wine in the 2016 Barde-Haut. There is not a ton of subtlety here, but I am not...
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Superb intensity and clarity of fruit, ranging from blueberries to blackcurrants to oyster shells and lightly tarry...
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Showing spectacularly well on the two occasions I was able to taste it, the 2016 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot is a...
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A juicy and pretty wine with berry and chocolate character, a medium body and a clean finish. Clearly better than the...
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Beautiful aromas of plums, flowers, truffles, earth, and hot stones. Full-bodied, yet the very fine and polished...
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Cassis, crushed rocks, graphite, and liquid violet notes all emerge from the 2016 Château Beauséjour, one of the...
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Incredibly perfumed aromas of roses and violets, as well as blue fruit and lavender. Full-bodied and powerful, yet so...
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Very fresh with fine dry tannins that carry the concentrated and ripe palate very nicely. I love the floral and...
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A dense and layered red with ripe plums and blueberries, as well as hints of wet earth and moss. Full-bodied, velvety...
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Love the combination of dark berries, sweet tobacco and wet earth here. Full-bodied, juicy and chewy with lots of...
Gamay Mencia Red Bordeaux
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.