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...Eight months’ oak ageing after barrel fermentation. Excellent varietal character on nose and palate. Just the job for fans of the “green grape”....
...Delicate despite the oak influence....
...Could well withstand blue cheese, but would also be interesting with Christmas pudding. £19.99 Waitrose Quinta do Noval, Unfiltered Single Vineyard Late Bottled Vintage 2017 Port (19.5%)Racy, claret-like...
...Bello is remarkably similar to classic red bordeaux (even though Draper, after painstaking research in historic documents and practical experiments, insists on ageing the wine in American, not French, oak...
...Bursting with full-throated life. £14.25 Stone Vine & Sun Wente Vineyards, Beyer Ranch Zinfandel 2020 California 14%Lots of fun and no exaggeration, with the sweet spice of the American oak.£14.95 The Wine...
.... £10.95 Stone, Vine & Sun Blütenreich Riesling 2020 Niederösterreich 12.5% Organic methods in the vineyard....
...That lovely combination of oak ageing and savoury Tempranillo fruit....
...This is based on 2017, Roederer’s 242nd grape harvest.£49.99 Majestic Drappier, Grande Sendrée Brut 2010 ChampagneIf you seek a fully mature champagne to serve with food, this single-vineyard wine would...
...So much flavour, so little alcohol.£40 for 50cl Majestic Ch Suduiraut 2001 Sauternes 14%This is creamy, opulent and already complex, and it obviously has a long way to go too....
...Compared with the square’s majestic Louis XV architecture, they’re an incongruous sight....
...“When Albani established his villa, this area consisted of small vineyards just outside the city walls,” says Valeriani....
...Devout and talented craftspeople, this industrious community farmed and worshipped with a zeal still evident in the sturdy towers, monumental barns and majestic oak forests that now form the picturesque...
...This lightening and brightening of Brunello has been helped by the widespread return to ageing in large old oak casks rather than applying a layer of sweetness via the new oak of much smaller French barriques...
...It has many an American gene and can taste oddly like candy but Suntory, one of the dominant wine producers, seems to have mastered it by ageing it in oak, some of it Japanese....
...Les Clans 2013 at £60 and Garrus 2013 from one particularly old vineyard, at a bold £100 a bottle....
...But Spanish winemakers tended to prefer Tempranillo to Garnacha because it ripens easily, is relatively productive and withstands oak ageing much better....
...No obvious oak....
...Great oak treatment....
...Great to find a mature, single-vineyard example of this heady grape at a specially reduced price. 14% £14.99 for two from Majestic Château Depeyre, Symphonie 2011 IGP Côtes Catalanes One of Roussillon...
...The sensation is one of delicate burn and long ageing in small oak barrels. Not that sweet but is so clean! Toasted almond flavours....
...Tastes much more of vineyard than of winemaking, unlike so many American Chardonnays. 13.9%, £24.95, Roberson …………………………………………………………….....
...The vineyards creep up the surrounding slopes, and weeping willows and hedges give privacy and softness to the space....
...White peach aromas and some definite oak influence....
...From a classic white, chalky Andalusian vineyard. 16.5% £8.49 for 75cl Waitrose (276 stores and online) González Byass, La Canoa Palo Cortado NV Sherry Very pale tawny....
...A hint of top quality oak in here and a grown-up dry finish. Bordeaux build....
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