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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
Rating ***(90 points)
Intense, Dense Baked Plum
LCBO Text Status
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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