8,5

Absis 01


Absis 01
Parés Baltà

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: Penedés
Localita: 08796 Pacs del Penedès(Barcelona)
Indirizzo: Masia Can Baltà, s/n
(+34) 938901399
Anno di fondazione: 1934
Produzione (bottiglie): 800.000
Ettari di vigneto: 175, Pacs de Penedès, Pontons, Torrelles de Foix, Sant Martí de Sarroca, Santa Margarida, Els Monjos
Marchi: Los cavas Parés Baltà Brut de Pacs, Brut Nature, Brut de Brut y Cuvée de Carol; los blancos Parés Baltà Blanc de Pacs, Mas Pons, Mas de Carol y Electio, el rosado Radix y los tintos Parés Baltà Mas Elena, Mas Irene, Marta de Baltà, Absis y Dominio de Cusiné 1790.
Prezzo: 60 €


A wine with substantial foreign varieties, such as native soil, it expresses an aromatic, clean intensity. Floral sensations arise, like violets, with minerals, licorice and currant, and the nuances of the aging process perfectly integrated. The basic material bursts in the mouth with substance and unctuousness, tannins, bitterness and complexity.

It was made with the following grapes and percentages: 63% de tempranillo, 21% merlot, 12% cabernet sauvignon and 4% syrah. Aged for 18 months in Allier oak barrels. Bottled in July, 2003. 5,000 bottles.

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Legaris Crianza 01


Legaris Crianza 01
Legaris

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: Ribera del Duero
Localita: 47316 Curiel de Duero (Valladolid)
Indirizzo: Ctra. Peñafiel-Encinas de Esgueva, Km. 2,5
(+34) 983878088
Anno di fondazione: 1998
Produzione (bottiglie): 500.000
Ettari di vigneto: 94, Curiel de Duero, San Martín de Rubiales
Marchi: Legaris Crianza, Reserva
Prezzo: 14 €


This wine follows the initial path of the winery, as much in personality, which is very appropriate for the region—refined enough in its potency to be an aging wine—as in quality, asserting nobility. This ’01 surpasses even the preceding ’00, which is logical given the experience and the quality of the year.

Charming olfactory, with fine and at the same time intense aromas; clear presence of toast from the treatment of certain woods, notes of roasting, vanilla, clove, etc., fusing with hints of wild ripe fruit reminiscent of blackberries. To the palate as to the nose, it is delicate as well as flavorful, absolutely expressive, well structured and with pronounced fruitiness, making it lively.

100% Tinta Fina from various parts of the Ribera del Duero region. Aged for one year in new American and French oak barrels. Bottled in early July 2003.

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8,25

La Vicalanda Reserva 00


La Vicalanda Reserva 00
Bodegas Bilbaínas, S.A.

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: La Rioja
Localita: 26200 Haro (La Rioja)
Indirizzo: Barrio de la Estación, 3
(+34) 941310147
Anno di fondazione: 1901
Produzione (bottiglie): 3.300.000
Ettari di vigneto: 260 Haro
Marchi: Ederra Crianza, Paceta Crianza, Viña Zaco Reserva, Viña Pomal Reserva Centenario y Gran Reserva y La Vicalanda Reserva, Gran Reserva y cavas
Prezzo: 20 €


This wine has the merit of going down with ease and giving great satisfaction without excessive complication; it situates itself halfway between modernism and classicism by adopting a modern philosophy without breaking with the historic palate of the region. It is this balance of fruit and wood that sets it apart, with an admirable complexity. Aromas of blueberries, balsamics and spices, vanilla and cinnamon. Fine tannins, a hint of acidity, medium body.

Produced exclusively with Tempranillo. Aged 12 months in new Allier oak barrels. Bottled in May 2002.

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8,75

Señorío de Andión 01


Señorío de Andión 01
Señorío de Andión

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: Navarra
Localita: 31390 Olite (Navarra)
Indirizzo: Ctra. Pamplona-Zaragoza, s/n
(+34) 948712193
Anno di fondazione: 2003
Produzione (bottiglie): 50.000
Ettari di vigneto: 60, Olite, Torres del Río
Marchi: Señorío de Andión
Prezzo: 24 €


Juan Ignacio Velasco can be happy; in chasing his life’s goal, producing a great wine, he has just succeeded with the first product from this winery. Elegance and character, refinement and substance. One observes a grand grape, offering fine and grandiose aromas, very vibrant and complex; of black currant and blackberries, also minerals, balsamics and of the highest quality wood, giving it spicy notes with perhaps a hit of vanilla. Sweet, subtle tannins. A wise concentration, an athletic body that is not arrogant.

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Tempranillo and a percentage of Graciano. Malolactic fermentation in new Allier oak barrels for 15 months. Bottled in Spring of 2002. 49,975 bottles.

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8,75

Raimat Cabernet Sauvignon Mas Castell 96


Raimat Cabernet Sauvignon Mas Castell 96
Raimat

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: Coster del Segre
Localita: 25111 Raimat (Lleida)
Indirizzo: Afueras, s/n
(+34) 973724000
Anno di fondazione: 1918
Produzione (bottiglie): 2.500.000
Ettari di vigneto: 2.300, Raimat
Marchi: Raimat 4 Varietales, Cabernet Sauvignon genérico y de fincas, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Tempranillo, Abadia, Rosado, Chardonnay y Chardonnay Selección Especial
Prezzo: 19,5 €


This is without a doubt the foremost Mas Castell offered by Raimat to date, lightly surpassing previous vintages. With care in packaging and in what it represents, it has a bit more of everything—aroma, flavor, body, as well as identity and of course, aftertaste. The fruit expresses itself with overwhelming force, showing maturity and, above all, nobility, that nobility that sets great wines apart. With plumb compote, coffees and toasts, tannins, acidity and effectiveness, pleasurable with an understated, accessible complexity.

Aged in barrels for a prolonged 2 years. In bottles since January 2000.

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8,5

Cuvée des Caudalies 99


Cuvée des Caudalies 99
DE SOUSA&FILS

Tipo: Espumoso
Nazionalita: France
Zona: Champagne
Localita: 51190 Avize
Indirizzo: 12, Place Léon Bourgeois
(+33) 0 326575329
Anno di fondazione: 1890
Produzione (bottiglie): 55.000
Ettari di vigneto: 6
Marchi: De Sousa&Fils Brut Tradition, Brut Reserve, The Cuvée of the Millenniun, Cuvée del Caudalies, Brut Rose.
Prezzo: 45 €


A Chardonnay from fifty year-old vines grown in vineyards classed as “Grand Cru”, noted for its strong character. Lively and varied aromas, with a fruity first sensation, clearly citrus with some Granny Smith apple, followed by a hint of wood from maturing in oak, which enhances its complexity. More than just very aromatic, its fruitiness is evident on the taste buds, where it is very crisp, with a mellow acidity; it is elegant and balanced, evolving, growing, blossoming, going about it subtly, and always sprightly. It is perhaps lacking the full body needed to make it an exceptional product, though its character brings out the ease with which it is sipped while maintaining a significant identity. Delicate and singular in a character as bold as it is charming.



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Alión 00


Alión 00
Bodegas y Viñedos Alión S.A

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: Spain
Zona: Ribera del Duero
Localita: 47300 Padilla de Duero
Indirizzo: Ctra. Nacional, 122, Km. 312,4
(+34) 983881236
Anno di fondazione: 1991
Produzione (bottiglie): 300.000
Ettari di vigneto: 50 Padilla de Duero, Peñafiel
Marchi: Alión
Prezzo: 30 €


It has that little something that is so easy to spot and so hard to explain: the sense of good taste. Three things stand out: the excellent quality of the grape, the exquisitely select wood in which it was made, and the commendable wine-making skills deployed in its making.With its exuberant bouquet, it represents – nay, proclaims – its exaltation of the fruit and the variety: tempranillo through and through, mature, highly complex, with certain aging notes, though with its outstanding raw material always shining through. It fills the mouth sweetly, or, to put it another way, makes its way in velvet-like and grows incessantly, irradiating bomb-like its huge taste-charge, while harmony spreads across the heavens.100% fine red. 15 months in new Nevers barrels. 316,680 bottles, 435 of magnum size and 496 double magnum.

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8,5

Marqués de Cáceres Reserva 09


Marqués de Cáceres Reserva 08
Unión Vitivinícola

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: España
Zona: La Rioja 2009
Localita: 26350 Cenicero
Indirizzo: Ctra. De Logroño, s/n.
(+34)941454026
Anno di fondazione: 1970
Produzione (bottiglie): 9.600.000
Ettari di vigneto:
Marchi: Blancos Marqués de Cáceres, Marques de Cáceres Crianza, Antea y Satinela, Rosado Marqués de Cáceres y los tintos Marqués de Cáceres Crianza, Reserva, Gran Reserva, Reserva Especial Edición Limitada, Gaudium y MC.
Prezzo: 12.50 €


 En la línea que caracteriza a los Marqués de Cáceres Reserva y que en la práctica refrenda añada tras añada. Le distingue un bouquet profundo que recuerda a cerezas, fruta que alterna con una leve sensación dulce ligeramente especiada, apreciándose vainilla, canela, tabaco y tostados. En el paladar repite y se manifiesta con claridad la uva, con un deje a picota, también a ciruelas, muy bien integradas con la madera, mostrando frescor y algo de torrefactos, chocolate y especias dulces. Elegante, en verdad elegante y armónico, perfectamente conjuntado, con un apreciable carácter y una riqueza de matices muy de agradecer.
Ha sido elaborado con un 85% de tempranillo y un 15% de garnacha y graciano. Permaneció 22 meses en barricas de roble francés de entre 1 y 4 años.

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8,75

Aster Finca El Otero 06


Aster Finca El Otero 06
Viñedos y Bodegas, S.L.

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: España
Zona: Ribera del Duero
Localita: 09312 Arguíx (Burgos)
Indirizzo: Ctra. Aranda-Palencia Km 55,1
(+34) 947561018
Anno di fondazione: 1990
Produzione (bottiglie): 180.000
Ettari di vigneto: 95
Marchi: Aster Crianza, Reserva y Finca El Otero
Prezzo: 35 €


Una nueva dimensión en Aster. Aromas intensos y persistentes, con una primera sensación evidentemente afrutada, que da paso a una cierta mineralidad y notas balsámicas, eucalipto, para aparecer luego la presencia de la madera, selecta madera, cedro, vainilla y tostados. En boca resulta elegante, equilibrado, envolvente, con una buena conjunción entre la fruta y los derivados de la crianza, mostrando una sugerente complejidad. Dulce, tánico, acido... todo en su justa expresión.
Elaborado exclusivamente con tinta del país de la parcela El Otero cuya plantación data de 1961. Hizo la fermentación maloláctica en barricas de roble americano nuevo, para luego pasar a otras de madera francesa, también nuevas, donde permaneció 14 meses. Ingresó en botella en julio de 2008. 9.906 botellas.

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8,75

Serrata Reserva 08


Serrata Reserva 08
BODEGA FRANCISCO GÓMEZ

Tipo: Tinto
Nazionalita: España
Zona: Alicante
Localita: 03400 Villena (Alicante)
Indirizzo: CV-813. Ctra. Villena-Pinoso, Km.8,8.
(+34) 965979195
Anno di fondazione: 2000
Produzione (bottiglie): 250.000
Ettari di vigneto: 200
Marchi: Fruto Noble Sauvignon Blanc Ecológico, Rosado Ecológico, Roble Ecológico y Crianza, Moratillas, Boca Negra y Serrata.
Prezzo: 16 €


Paco Gómez no deja de sorprendernos. Después de construir una bodega faraónica en la Alicante profunda, esta logrando, en consonancia con la magnimidad del proyecto, vinos con mucha enjundia.
Este Serrata se muestra vigoroso y recio y, a la vez, apacible en su sustanciosidad. Llena la boca de autenticidad, apreciándose unas uvas nobles, maduras, muy maduras, con un fondo muy sutil de madera, de una selecta madera. Auténtico, sobrio y efectivo, imperan los valores básicos, que llegan al corazón y al cielo del paladar. También en nariz se muestra profundo: moras, minerales, tostados y especias.
Participan en su composición  merlot,  petit verdot,  cabernet sauvignon y  Monastrell. 18 meses de crianza en barricas nuevas de roble francés.  15.000 botellas.

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