The 2017 Chivite Coleccion 125 Reserva wine has a deep ruby. Fine wood aroma, eucalyptus, tobacco, cedar. Palate is elegant with a powerful attack. Balanced and velvety. Very fine wood, perfectly integrated with the wine. Long finish and mineral hints. Leather, liquorice, clove, Indian ink after-taste.
The Chivite Coleccion 125 Reserva wine has a blend of 65% Tempranillo, 30% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
The 2020 Chivite Gran Feudo Crianza wine has medium to high intensity. The wine has cherry red with garnet rim. Nose is intense and expressive. Black fruit with smoked hints from ageing in oak barrels. Palate is soft with a fresh attack. Volume, good acidity and integrated tannins. This Chivite Gran Feudo Crianza wine has a pleasant finish with black fruit and well-integrated wood.
Blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha and Cabernet Sauvugnon.
The 2018 Chivite Gran Feudo Reserva wine has a deep colour and ruby red with a garnet rim. Nose is intense and fine with black fruit and spices. Notes of good fine wood. This Reserva wine is powerful and tasty attack. Elegant, full-bodied. Persistent final with smoked hints and stone fruits.
The Chivite Gran Feudo Reserva wine has a blend of Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
The The Citra Cabernet Sauvignon Terre di Chiet 2019 has an intense ruby red color. This Cabernet Sauvignon wine is rich fruit aromas with notes of black pepper. This Cabernet Sauvignon wine is round and full on the palate, with balanced tannins and a pleasant, lingering aftertaste.
The Citra Caroso Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Riserva 2015 has a deep ruby bouquet color. This wine is rich, generous, full-bodied and velvety, with intense notes of red fruit, plums and spice.
The Citra family of stylishly-created Italian wines, widely admired for its enduring high quality and exceptional value, represents a reliable source of versatile, food friendly varietal wines. As the single most important producer in Italy’s picturesque coastal Abruzzi region and a leading Italian brand across America, Citra has built a reputation as a trusted producer of well-made, authentic Italian wines.
The Citra Ferzo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2016 is a soft and harmonious wine, important for its structure and olfactory intensity and ideal in combination with red meats and game. This Montepulciano is very attractive and a velvety tannic structure. A really enjoyable wine.
The Citra Merlot Terre di Chieti 2019 has a vibrant ruby red color. This Merlot. wine has an intense fruit aromas with pronounced violet notes. Pleasantly tannic, with round fruit flavors leading into a smooth finish.
The 2015 Clos Du Marquis wine is gorgeous, but one of the more backward, closed wines in the vintage. This St-Julien wine is powerful and dense from the outset. This 2015 Clos Du Marquis wine is made from 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc, aged in 50% new oak, it’s deep purple color is followed by promising notes of blackcurrants, smoked earth, tobacco and lead pencil. With full-bodied richness, a ripe, concentrated, structured feel, and impressive length. This is a superb Clos du Marquis wine that should give two or three decades of drinking pleasure. Anticipated maturity: 2022 – 2042.
95 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Enthusiast
93 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
The 2018 Clos Figueras wine is a high quality red wine from the D.O. Priorat. One of the greatest wines of this region, internationally recognized. This Clos Figueras is produced with Grenache and Carignan grapes from old vines of other 80 years old.
The wonderful aromas of crushed blackberries, licorice, tar and bark follow to a full body with round, chewy tannins and fantastic depth of fruit and intensity. Needs time to come together, but so structured. This wine has great ageing capacity. This 2018 Clos Figueras wine is an elegant Priorat wine.
93 points James Suckling
The 2018 Condado de Haza 20 Aldeas wine has an intense aroma of black fruits, blackberries and a hint of dairy, with the liquorice characteristic of the Tempranillo grape variety. Followed by toasted notes such as vanilla, caramel and lightly smokey notes from the ageing process in American oak barrels. The Condado de Haza 20 Aldeas has a potent wine that is fleshy at entry, with a remarkable balance between tannins and acidity. This wine from Ribera del Duero region has a broad mouthfeel with well-rounded tannins that fill the mouth with a fruity flavour rounded o with persistent toasted notes, liquorice, coee caramel and toee. This red wine has a long-lasting, pleasant aftertaste.
This 2018 Condado de Haza 20 Aldeas wine is for Medium long-term ageing wine that is ideal for drinking over the next 10 years. Decant 30 minutes before serving to aerate.
95 points by James Suckling
The 2019 Condado de Haza Crianza wine has a clean and brilliant with an attractive black cherry colour and purple undertones. This Condado de Haza Crianza is quite intense aromatics revealing ripe red berry and black fruits. Liquorice notes, typical of the Tempranillo variety, also come through. Sweet, roasted coffee bean aromas follow with hints of vanilla and touches of spice. A crianza which is complex and beautiful, an outstanding red wine.
This Condado de Haza Crianza is a red wine from the Ribera del Duero region, prepared by Condado de Haza. This is a winery belonging to Familia Fernández Rivera. The Condado de Haza is the sister property to Pesquera, both planted by the pioneering Alejandro Fernandez, who died earlier this year. The vineyard was planted with tempranillo between 1986 and 1989, and it’s these mature vines that give birth to this robust red.
This 2019 Condado de Haza Crianza wine is best paired with Stews, Roasts, Game animals, Stew, Semi-mature Cheese, Grilled red meats, and Roasted Pork.
93 Points James Suckling
90 Points Wines & Spirits
The Corte Giara Valpolicella Ripasso 2015 has a deep ruby red colour with good concentration. On the nose, plump red fruit combines well with sweet spices, giving way to delicately spiced herbs. It is full and satisfying, with excellent structure and vibrant acidity that create a harmonious balance for a wine that is both smooth and vivacious on the palate.
This 2019 Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah wine has deep and dark with a purple hue. An overwhelming presence that suggests this Syrah wine will live to be iconic. The nose is flush with mulberry, violets, lavender and cocoa. The palate has suave, smooth and concentrated dark berries, presented in a very neatly articulated array of ripe, regal tannins. This Le Sol Syrah wine has a great depth and resolve. The 2018 Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah wine is perhaps the most confident, self-assured expression of Syrah to yet emerge from this benchmark producer. This is a stellar vintage of Craggy’s Range’s premium Hawkes Bay Syrah.
Le Sol (french: the soil) is born of the renowned Gimblett Gravels viticultural appellation with its gravelly soils attracting the sun in summer and insulating the vines in winter.
This Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah wine is best paired with Braised beef and strong blue-based cheese.
95 points James Suckling
95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
This 2020 Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels Sophia wine has a deep dark red. The perfume is intoxicating with ripe blueberry overlaying cinnamon, brioche and a hint of leafy varietal lingering in the background. The palate sits upright and all-encompassing. The red wine tannins’s are long and silky, flavour concentrated and ripe, the finish endless the hallmarks of one of the great Sophia’s.
The 2020 Craggy Range Sophia wine has a refined and elegant hand-crafted Merlot dominant blend that represents both the vigneron’s art and an inherent understanding of the land, ensuring ‘Sophia’ is the finest expression of the terroir and the people. ‘Sophia’, meaning ‘wisdom’ in Greek mythology, pays tribute to the goddess of knowledge and experience, information and understanding – a philosophy adopted by our winemakers and viticulturists when crafting this wine.
The Gimblett Gravels Vineyard Syrah from Craggy Range is a fascinating red wine cuvée made from Merlot (62%), Cabernet Sauvignon (19%), Cabernet Franc (18%) and Petit Verdot (1%) and presented in the glass in a dark garnet red.
This dry red wine from New Zealand is a real treat with beef fillet with red wine sauce and potato stew, lamb carree with rosemary potatoes or with liver with steamed onions.
Wine Spectator: 90 points for 2013
Robert Parker: 93+ points for 2013
Stephan Tanzer: 91 points for 2013
This 2019 Craggy Range Gimblett Merlot wine has a deep ruby with crimson hue. This Merlot wine has a welcoming aroma of ripe plum and the scent of a winter Christmas kitchen. The Gimblett Merlot wine is exquisitely structured with sweet fruit supported by layers of fine tannin creating a taut yet luscious mouthfeel.
Our Gimblett Gravels Merlot is carefully selected from parcels of Merlot in our Gimblett Gravels Vineyard. The warm, gravelly soils are perfect for the production of Merlot and the moderate heat allows the wine to retain freshness and structure without showing over-ripe characters.
Awards:
2014 Vintage: Silver – New Zealand Wine of the Year
2010 Vintage: Commended – International Wine Challenge
2011 Vintage: Commended – International Wine Challenge
2011 Vintage: Bronze – Decanter World Wine Awards
The 2020 Craggy Range Gimblett Syrah wine has a dark burgundy with a vibrant purple hue. Immediately the nose shows all the hallmarks of the variety on these soils. This Craggy Range Gimblett Syrah wine has a olive tapenade, mulberries, and spicy, gamey notes are all in abundance. The palate has prominent ripe tannins and an intensity that speaks to a warm vintage. Medium to full-bodied, the unique savoury and fruit balance is sure to entice all flavours of Syrah from the Gimblett Gravels.
With a terroir-focused approach, Craggy Range works with some of the best areas in New Zealand. The Gimblett Gravels vineyard in Hawkes Bay and the Te Muna Road vineyard in Martinborough.
The 2020 Craggy Range Gimblett Syrah is best paired with Roasted garlic and thyme lamb rack, squid ink linguine.
