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AMETHYSTOS CAVA 2012 Drama |
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
DOMAINE COSTA LAZARIDI |
Extremely deep intense purple colour. Complex, spicy, baked ripe plum-cherry nose with lots of sandalwood notes. Very dry, medium-full bodied, extracty, faintly peppery, very slightly bitter, dried plum flavours with a lingering, cedary, high acid finish. Tasted once. Has 15% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar with lot number L15127 on the capsule. TONY ASPLER / 90-points - Cedary,vanilla and blackcurrant nose; full-bodied, dry, intense and concentrated, firmly structured and tight still with well-integrated oak. Hold 5 years. |
CSPC |
912980 |
Type |
Red Table Wine |
Agent |
Dio Win |
Country |
Greece |
Region |
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Rating |
***(90 points) Intense, Dense Baked Plum |
LCBO Text |
Status |
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The Amethystos Cava is the flagship wine of Kostas Lazaridis. Produced only in exceptional years, this wine is crafted from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and aged for 18 months in new French oak. It's a wine of character and refinement that will offer tons of smoke, herbs, tobacco and rich, ripe black fruit. Pair with grilled lamb. |
Price |
$ 49.95 |
Bottle Size |
750 mL |
Tasting Date |
vintages release - August 5, 2017 |
Cases bought |
47 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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