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Oz Clarke recommendations
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Oz Clarke has included four of our wines in his 250 Best Wines, 2011 edition
published by Anova Books -
click here to order a copy for £5.
| Red wines
(reviews are included for wines in the 2011
edition) |
At Number 9 in Oz's Top 100 is
Miguel Angel
Muro's 2004 Rioja 'Amenital'. He writes "2004 is a classic vintage for
Rioja: dark, ripe, rather closed in, promising long life. Well, this is dark
but it isn't brooding and introspective. The fruit's darkness is the
darkness of real ripeness, so ripe that a heady plum blossom scent shimmers
on the surface of the wine. It does have some tannic toughness but not
nearly enough to interfere with the pleasure and it's the fruit acidity that
provides the backbone to the wine. You don't usually get that tingling
acidity in modern Rioja but here they've used 20% of the Graciano grape in
the blend (along with the traditional Tempranillo) to provide vivacity and
verve. The acidity keeps the wine fresh while the waxy texture and mellow
vanilla warmth wrap around the fruit and ooze over your palate".
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Domaine des
Anges' 2007 Côtes du Ventoux Rouge is at Number 90 on
the list: "British-owned Domaine des Anges has been showing the locals
how to make fresh, scented, quaffable reds at a fair price for decades. 2007
was a particularly good vintage, and this is ripe and full but seductively
scented with cool orchard air and the dark red fruit of cherries and
strawberries flows effortlessly through the local landscape of
rocks and herbs". At £7.65 it is listed as one of the
very cheapest wines in the Top 100 but in fact we have been able to drop the
price to £7.35 thanks to the improved exchange rate.
Domaine des
Anges, 2004 VDP de Vaucluse Cabernet Sauvignon (2010 edition)
Xavier Vignon, VDT 'Debut' (aka
Xavier Rouge, 2009 edition)
Domaine des Anges, 2004 Côtes du Ventoux 'L'Archange' (2006
and 2007
available, 2009 edition) |
| White wines Jonathan Maltus'
2008 Bordeaux Blanc 'Pezat' makes an appearance in 2011
in the Keeping
It Light section.
Xavier
Vignon, VDT 'Debut' Blanc (aka Xavier Blanc, 2009 edition)
Bodegas Hermanos Laredo, Rioja Reserva Blanco 2003
(no
longer available)
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Sweet white wine
The superb
2007 Gaillac Doux 'Renaissance' from
Domaine Rotier gets the following write up:
"Gaillac, in South-West
France, has a great history of sweet winemaking but, until very recently, an
extremely drab present based on dry whites and chewy rough reds. So to see sweet
wines being revived is a thrill because it's far more difficult to make fine
sweet wine than dry wine. Made from the wonderfully-named Loin de loeil grape
and fermented and aged in oak barrels, this wine is rich and fat, not
hysterically sweet but waxy and dripping with quince, fresh figs and honey, with
a funky mix of melon, pineapple chunks and marrow jam unexpectedly appearing on
your tongue just before the wine drifts off into a delightful aftertaste of
strawberry and honey"..
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Offers
A. Unmixed cases of any of the 2011 recommendations at 10% off list prices
when paid for by cheque or bank transfer.
B. One bottle each of the eight wines we still have stocks of (updating the
vintage where necessary) - list price £82.75 for only £75 plus delivery paid by cheque or
bank transfer.
C. Two bottles each of all eight wines we still have stocks of (updating the
vintage where necessary) - sixteen bottles in total, list price £169.70, offered
with a discount of over 10% - £150 and we won't charge for delivery on single
cases as long as you pay by cheque or bank transfer.
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