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Chateau de Beauregard-Ducourt Black Label 2018
VINTAGES NOVEMBER 16 - #28855 - $17.95
Dry, Ripe, Bright, Ready **+ (89-points)
This bargain-priced, ready-to-drink, 50-50 blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon has fairly deep red colour followed up by an intense, ripe, plum-black-cherry nose with some slightly earthy, cedar notes. Dry, medium bodied, nicely structured, ripe, Damson plum fruit flavours with some mulberry notes on the lingering, bright,slightly spicy, sandalwood-cedar finish. Located in Entre-Deux-Mers, it was aged in stainless steel vats and oak barrels and has 14% alcohol and is at it’s peak, so drink and enjoy perhaps with a steak.

A CLASSIC 16-YEAR-OLD RIOJA

Escudero Vidau 2008
VINTAGES NOVEMBER 16 - #4086 - $37.95
Rich, Ripe, Well Structured *** (93-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,expansive, cedary finish. Has 14% alcohol and was aged for 16 months in new French oak.
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Terre Dora di Paolo Il Principio Aglianico 2017
VINTAGES NOVEMBER - #26727 - $28.95
Dense, Robust, Autumnal Flavours *** (91-points)
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