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Bodegas Riojanas, Gran Albina 2004
£19.99
This 'Alte Expression' Rioja is made from hand-selected grapes and gets 24 months in new American oak caskes, creating an intense, concentrated and very modern style of red wine with chewy tannins and opulent fruits. Unlike traditional riojas, which are ready when released (although some can be kept), this needs a few years bottle age to reveal its true glory
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Bodegas Riojanas, Monte Real Gran Reserva 1998
£18.49
Unusually for Rioja, this is a single vineyard wine. The Rioja Alta fruit gives extra weight and body to this smoky, spicy wine, which is ready to drink but should keep in your cellar a while if you like
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Chateau la Lagune, Mademoiselle L 2004
Online Catalogue | Sipped and Savoured | Chateau la Lagune, Mademoiselle L 2004
 | Tasted December 2007
Chateau La Lagune is a 3eme Grand Cru Classe from the Haut Medoc, reknowned for its traditional style. In recent years, following a relatively fallow period, the Chateau has once again raised its game, and has modernised production using stainless steel fermentation tanks and an increasing amount of new oak. Mademoiselle L is their third wine, made from young vines for a forward, modern, early-maturing style.
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Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot blend
Region: Haut Medoc, Bordeaux
Soil Type: Sandy gravel over a gravel base
Winemaking: Young vines, stainless steel fermentation and new oak ageing
ABV: 13% |
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Tasting Note
We were slightly suspicious when this was recommended to us as the perfect claret for this Christmas, thinking that 2004 may be a bit young, but the use of young vines and new oak proved us very wrong. The fruit is almost new-world in its concentration of black fruit flavours, but the oak hints of cedar, cigar box and spice are most definitely French in origin!
Cellaring
At its peak now, but will remain there for a couple of years.
If you like this, why not try...Chateau des Gravieres 2003
Mineral driven claret from the gravelly soils of Graves |
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Online Catalogue | Sipped and Savoured | Chateau la Lagune, Mademoiselle L 2004
