Vintages 2024 Buyers Guide
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BEST BUY CHAMPAGNE
A personal favourite of mine - consistently
great!
Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve Champagne
VINTAGES OCTOBER - #35962 - $94.95
Rich, Complex, Toasty ***+ (94-points)
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PREMIUM CALIFORNIA CHARD
Tyler Chardonnay 2023
VINTAGES OCTOBER - #28952 - $45.95
Intense, Complex, Elegant *** (93-points)
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A CLASSIC YOUTHFUL 16-YEAR-OLD RIOJA
Escudero Vidau 2008
VINTAGES NOVEMBER 16 - #4086 - $37.95
Rich, Ripe, Well Structured *** (92-points)
NEW in Vintages. From the challenging 2008 vintage emerges a 16-year-old rich Rioja that still has lots of life. This traditional mixed-vine blend of 55% Granache, 30% Tempranillo and 20% Graciano/Mazuelo has a youthful deep ruby-red colour. Beguiling, warm, ripe, Damson plum fruit nose with cassis and black cherry notes along with refined toasty-sandalwood notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, well structured, very slightly spicy, intense, bright, ripe plum-crancherry-cassis flavours with a lingering, faintly savoury, elegant, cedary finish.Has 14% alcohol and was aged for 16 months in new French oak.
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