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Lafage Miraflors Rose 2025
Classy Southern French Cotes Catalanes Best Buy Rose
Fresh, Bright, Youthful *** (90-points) - $19.95 - #367375
This 2025 edition of Lafage's classic southern French Rose comes in an attractive designer bottle with a glass stopper. Bright extremely pale salmon colour, it has fresh, faintly spicy, floral, rmelon-apple-pear aromas. Dry, medium bodied, youthful, fresh, bright, attractive, ripe honeycrisp apple flavours and a lingering, harmonious, melon-pear-tinged minerally finish. This versatile, ready-to-enjoy, crowd-pleaser is a perfect warm weather Springtime refresher and is permanently available in over 180 stores.
Domaine Lafage Cayrol Vieilles Vignes Carignan 2023
Bright, Ripe, Plum-Cassis-Cherry *** (90-points)
April 11 Vintages BEST BUY - #494039 - $19.95
Deep intense purple colour, this 100% Carignan has an attractive, gently spicy, fairly intense, ripe, black-cherry-cassis-plum nose with some minerally, cedar-sandalwood notes. Dry, medium bodied and nicely textured, the slightly spicy, ripe, cassis-raspberry-plum flavours are followed up with a lingering, bright, gently complex finish. Tasty, versatile and approachable, it will pair very well with bbq ribs,steak and/or roast beef.
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Chateau Roquefort Les Roches Blanches Sauvignon Blanc 2024
Dry, Bright, Fresh, Citrusy *** (90.5-points)
APRIL 11 VINTAGES RELEASE BEST BUY - $15.95 - #35860
This organic medal-winning Bordeaux estate-bottled 100% Sauvignon Blanc is the prefect springtime wine for seafood and vegetarian dishes. Medium-deep straw in colour, it has a very attractive, fragrant, floral nose with some gentle lemon-apple-lime notes with a mineral-tinged, very faint hint of grass. Dry, medium bodied, very slightly spicy, fresh, crisp, ripe, winter-melon-apple-lemon flavours with a lingering, lifted finish. This ready-to-enjoy great bargain has 12.5% alcohol and under 2 g/L residual sugar
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Cremaschi Furlotti
Gran Reserva Carmenere 2021
CHILE'S VINTAGES MARCH 21 BEST BUY - #549741 - $19.95
Delicious, Ripe, Bright *** (90-points)
Deep intense purple colour. Intense, slightly spicy, bright, ripe, plum-crancherry nose with some gently gently complex, cedary notes. Dry medium to medium-full bodied, nicely textured, intense, bright, ripe, plum-crancherry puree flavours with a lingering, rich, bright, gently cedary, cassis-tinged finish. Quite delicious and ready-to-drink. Aged for 12 months in French oak, this impressive, very well-priced, 100% Carmenere has 13.5% alcohol under 3 g/L residual sugar. |
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Dry, Fresh, Bright, Youthful *** (90-points)
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Internationally recognized as one of the great indigenous white grapes of Greece, this vibrant new 2025 Assyrtiko is now the FIRST GREEK VINTAGES ESSENTIAL. Pale straw in colour, it has a fresh, slightly spicy, lively, honeysuckle, bright, wintermelon-grapefruit nose with some youthful, leesy-mineral notes. Dry, medium bodied, very fresh, wintermelon and ripe pear flavours with a lingering, crisp, refreshing, well balanced finish. This well-priced, versatile, crowd-pleaser is perfect with pasta, poultry and/or seafood. It spent 3 months on the lees and has 13.5% alcohol and 1.3 g/L residual sugar with a screwcap closure. It gets better the longer it is open!
Kir-Yianni Cuvée Villages Xinomavro 2022
Bight, Ripe, Supple, Ready *** (90-points)
RECOMMENDED - $21.95 - Vintages #14151
This Kir-Yanni winery new gold-medal winning 2022 has a medium red colour and a bright and gently complex Damson-plum nose with some faintly earthy, red licorice notes. Dry, medium bodied, harmonious, plum-cherry-raspberry flavours with a lingering, slightly savoury, sandalwood-tinged, bright finish. This100% Xinomavro was aged for in a mix of French (90%) and American oak. It has 14.5% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar. An extremely versatile, ready-to-drink, crowd-pleaser. Italian wine fans may find it reminiscent of a high-priced Nebbiolo (perhaps even a Barolo) from Piedmont. (Kolonaki)
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