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Vintages October 10
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Outstanding 2023 Single Cru Destination
Bachelder Lowrey Old Vines Pinot Noir
Elegant, Bright, Ripe, Cassis-Plum-Cherry
Vintages Oct 10 - $65 #361816 ***/***+ (95-points)
This exceptional, limited-edition St. David's Bench 2023 from old vines dating back to 1984 has a pale light red colour. Extremely elegant on the nose with floral roses, ripe plums, raspberries and cassis with some minerally, gently complex toasty notes. Dry, medium-plus bodied, nicely textured, fresh, perfectly ripe, just-picked, raspberry-cassis-plum flavours with some hints of frais de bois all followed up by a lingering, refined, very bright, vanilla-tinged finish. It has 12% alcohol and aged for 20-months in French oak. Comparable to some top Burgundies fetching $100+
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Last Fall a single bottle of Ontario 1975 Chateau-Gai Gamay Beaujolais sold for a world-record $1,000 at a Waddintons auction. Three bottles of this 1975 were opened last October and were tasted by dozens in attendance at the CELEBRATION OF LIFE for winemaker Paul Bosc Sr. All 3 bottles stored at the ultra-cold temperature for 50 years were in perfect condition.
See Rick VanSickle's report.
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