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特價
NT$ 3,800 NT$ 3,300
Rosso Ca del Merlo is the brother of the Valpolicella Classico Superiore of Quintarelli. They are made the same way – 50/50 fresh grapes and dried grapes (appassimento) then re-fermented on the gross lees of the Amarone, a process that they call Ripasso. The wine comes their beautiful vineyards on basalt and limestone slopes, harvested for ripeness and acidity with the utmost care and precision given to every step of the complicated winemaking process. This is one of the harder to find wines from Quintarelli’s range, they don’t make very much of this and only a small portion is destined for the UK.
The wine itself is a combination of richness and density, but like all Quintarelli’s wines, never heavy. The fruit is darker than it’s Valpolicella sibling and show the tannic grip of the Cabernets. It has fruit, of course, particularly black plums, prunes, maybe a touch of black olive, but the nose and palate are complex with notes of forest floor, roses, tobacco, and minerals.
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NT$ 850
A pretty ruby garnet color. A delicate bouquet with scents of undergrowth, candied fruit and spices. The volume of ripe flesh with enveloping tannins fills the mouth. A generous finish on a nice fruitiness.
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NT$ 6,900
Corton Blanc Grand Cru comes from a single parcel that is just 0.08 hectares in size (or just one barrel, one year old, maximum.) It has an effervescent bouquet of orange zest, apricot and light almond aromas. The palate is well balanced with a fine line of acidity, a judicious touch of sour lemon complementing the slightly honeyed texture that comes through toward the finish.
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TASTING NOTE
HThe palate is opulent between tension and finesse whil leaving a fresh and mineral finish. Good and strong structure in mouth.
FOOD PAIRING
Fish, shellfish or white meats served with a cream sauce. Serving temperature : 12 °C
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TASTING NOTE
This wine suggests butter and hot croissant, fern, dried fruits, spices and honey. The body and bouquet are no longer distinguishable, the structure and harmony merge into a perfect unity. Smooth and firm, dry and caressing, wrapped and deep, it possesses all the graces under an inflexible charater
FOOD PAIRING
Bresse Chicken with cream, sweetbreads with morels, truffled foie gras, Comté or old Cantal. Great fish and Crustacean (Monkfish, Crayfish, Char, Langoustine), but also with a pan-fried veal. Serving temperature : 13 °C
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Here the nose is compositionally similar to that of the regular cuvee but as is usually the case it is more reserved, more complex and the wood treatment is more subtle. There is notably better concentration to the impressively rich, powerful and muscular big-bodied flavors are shaped by dense but relatively fine tannins on the wonderfully long, balanced and again youthfully austere finale. This terrific effort is really most impressive though note well that it is going to need at least 10 years of bottle age and reward 15 to 18.
95-Burghound
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The Cuvée Classique (as this wine is known) is drawn from the Domaine’s parcels on the mid-slope of the clos as well as parcels on the lower and upper parts of the vineyard. There are six parcels in total. The main parcels are situated in the middle of the clos and include the lieux-dits: Montiottes Basses, Quatorze-Journaux and Quartier Marei Bas (home also to the 1910 planted vieilles vignes parcel). The smallest holdings are those in the Quatorze-Journaux and Baudes-Saint-Martin lieux dits, two parcels at the bottom of the slope that sandwich Etienne Grivot’s vines, and La Plante l’Abbé, at the top of the clos, near the Château and the Grands-Echezeaux border. These vineyards have been managed organically for well over 20 years and now average around 67 years of age. As for all the reds here, this is 100% whole bunch, fermented in concrete with wild yeasts and then aged in 50% new oak. The barrels are fashioned according to each season by Stéphane Chassin in Charente.
Testing Note : A highly perfumed red burgundy with loads of spice, ripe plum and blackberry fruit, and a plush and silky texture with fine tannins in support. Deep and powerful, yet fleshy and sweet fruited with earthy, tobacco notes on the long complex close. When you consider the pricing now being paid for GC wines of equivalent quality, this still represents very fair pricing.”A ripe and very fresh nose offers up notes of maraschino cherry, plum, raspberry, spice and distinct floral wisps. There is excellent concentration to the succulent but quite powerful big-bodied flavors that possess a sleek mouthfeel thanks to the relatively refined tannins shaping the youthfully austere finish that flashes fine depth on the highly persistent finish. I like the balance and this should age effortlessly.”
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(13.2% alcohol; 18 hectoliters per hectare produced; from vines harvested on September 23): Bright, moderately saturated medium red. Explosive, fruit-dominated aromas of dark berries, cherry, spices, mint, menthol, flowers and minerals. Conveys compelling sappy energy in a silky, medium-bodied package, with its black fruit and herb flavors complicated by a touch of saline minerality. Boasts glorious density of fruit–and near-perfect balance in spite of the very low yield. The very long, rising, perfumed finish offers a serious tannic spine for aging but no rough edges. This penetrating, urgent, classic Clos Vougeot, a standout for the vintage, boasts real pinosity. François Labet told me that, beginning with his 2015s, he did not use enzymes and did not add any sulfur until the middle of the élevage, well after the malolactic fermentations finished. He bottled this 2016 with just 20 parts per million free sulfur and 35 total.
96 POINTS – STEPHEN TANZER – VINOUS
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