Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Champagne Nicolas Feuillate Brut Réserve Exclusive Rosé, Champagne, France

 

                        Reserve Exclusive Rose                                                                 Region/Appellation: Champagne, France

 

  Varietal/Blend: 10% Chardonnay, 45%                                                                   Pinot Noir, 45% Pinot Meunier

 

   Vintage- NV

   Tasting note: Réserve Exclusive Rosé is a                            delicately nuanced Champagne literally                                                                 bursting with red summer fruit flavours.                                                               A delicious cavalcade of redcurrant,                                                                         blueberry and raspberry notes,                                                                                   combined  with a hint of Gariguette                                                                           strawberries.

 

 

Champagne Nicolas Feuillate Réserve Exclusive Brut, Champagne, France

                                              

       Reserve Exclusive brut

                                                                                     Region/Appellation:  Champagne, France

 

 Varietal/Blend: 20% Chardonnay, 40 Pinot       Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier

 

 Vintage: NV

 Tasting note: 

Aromas of juicy pear and crunchy apricot merge and weave in a beguiling fusion around a mass of delicate bubbles to create a light, fresh and                                                   vibrant Champagne, effusing intense, expressive fruit, while extensive cellar-ageing brings appealing maturity.

 

 

 

                            

Falesco Monitano, Lazio IGT, Lazio, Italy

Falesco Montiano

Appellation: Lazio IGT

Blend: 100% Merlot

Vintage: 2013

Tasting note: The wine has a wonderful, deep, ruby red colour, a wide aromatic range of scents in which delicious vanilla notes, small red fruit, layers of jam and sweet spices combine. The taste appears to have a full aristocratic roundness and softness, typical of Merlot, with quite elegant, agreeable and lingering flavours.

Tellus Syrah, Lazio IGT, Lazio, Italy

Falesco Tellus Syrah

Appellation: Lazio IGT

Blend: 100% Syrah

Vintage: 2015

Tasting note: A wine with an intense colour and violet reflections, on the nose its scent is enhanced by hints of fresh fruit, cherry with spicy notes that blend with great balance and elegance to those of sweet and vanilla expressed from the wood. The taste is enveloping, silky, soft tannins, rich and persistent finish.

Falesco Vitiano Vermentino, Umbria IGT, Umbria, Italy

Falesco Vitiano Vermentino

Appellation: Umbria IGT

Blend: Vermentino 100%

Vintage: 2015

Tasting note: In Vitiano Vermentino the variety is expressed fully with its spicy aroma on the one hand, and its finesse and its pleasantness on the other part. The wine has an acid and persistent finish, as it has to be for a wine of which the main feature is being pleasant to drink.

Antinori Castello della Sala ‘Cervaro della Sala’, Umbria IGT, Umbria, Italy

Cervaro della sala

Appellation: Umbria IGT

Blend: Chardonnay, Grechetto

Vintage: 2014

Tasting note: The 2014 wine has less structure and more acidity while the colour is bright. The aromas range from flint to citrus fruit with some yellow plum sensations. The mouthfeel is saline, agile, fresh and very elegant with a subtle yet very long finish.

La Braccesca Vigneto Santa Pia Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Riserva, Tuscany, Italy

Santa Pia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appellation: Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG

Blend: Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero

Vintage: 2013

Tasting note: An intense ruby red in colour, the wine presents aromas of leather and tobacco along with ripe red fruit and quinine. The palate is savoury, full and ample with supple and silky tannins. The finish and aftertaste are long and persistent.

La Braccescaa Achelo Cortona DOC Rosso, Tuscany, Italy

Achelo

Appellation: Cortona DOC

Blend: Syrah dominated blend

Vintage: 2014

Tasting note: A brilliant purple in colour, the 2014 Achelo presents aromatic notes of white fruit which fuse with hints of plums. On the palate the wine is sweet and savory, and the notes of fresh fruit first perceived on the nose return together with notes of liquorices. The finish is long and vibrant with supple tannins which accompany the entire flavour flow across the palate.

La Braccesca Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, DOCG, Tuscany, Italy

Vino nobile di montepulcian

Appellation: Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG

Blend: Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero

Vintage: 2013

Tasting note: A vivid rubyred in color, the wine shows a fresh nose of violets, red currants, and blackberries, well fused with light notes of cinnamon. The palate is both sweet and mineral in character, and the notes of berryfruit first felt on the nose blend with alight spiciness of flavor. The wine is long and persistent on the finish and aftertaste.