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 2018 Citra Chardonnay Terre di Chieti has a pale gold color. Fresh, with exotic fruit aromas and floral nuances. This Chardonnay wine is harmonious and crisp, with lingering apple and pear flavors.
The Citra Ferzo Abruzzo Pecorino Superiore DOP 2018 is from the Abruzzo wine region, this wine is an Italy Pecorino Superiore with lemon curd, tropical, apple and pear fruit flavours on the palate. Finishes spicy with a long mineral length.
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 Citra Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2018 has a lush ruby with hints of purple color. Bouquet is pleasant with lingering fruit aromas. The Montepulciano wine is dry, well-balanced and delightfully tannic, with concentrated berry flavors.
The Citra Sangiovese Terre di Chieti 2018 has a deep ruby red color with intense fruit and floral aromas. The Sangiovese wine taste is medium-bodied and smooth, with a lingering finish.
The Citra Trebbiano d’Abruzzo 2019 has a straw gold color with delicate greenish tints. A fresh and pleasant bouquet with lingering citrus notes. This Trebbiano wine’s taste is full, crisp, dry and harmonious.
The 2009 Clos du Marquis wine is beautiful and young. This Clos du Marquis comes from a single vineyard in the Léoville Las Cases stable. This 2009 Clos du Marquis wine has a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. This 2009 Clos du Marquis is a beautiful wine offering classic Saint-Julien crème de cassis fruits as well as lots of rocky minerality, cedarwood, graphite, and spring flowers. This St-Julien wine exhibits a deep ruby purple hue along with sweet notes of creme de cassis, great purity, a full-bodied mouthfeel, and terrific texture as well as length. It should evolve for 20-25 years.
The Clos du Marquis is being positioned by Jean-Hubert Delon as a separate single vineyard wine rather than Leoville Las Cases’ second wine. The logic is simple. It has come from the same vineyard for over twenty years, and is not a true second wine in the sense that it is not made from Las Cases’ discarded cuvees.
95 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Enthusiast
93 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
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 2017 Clos du Marquis wine is dark, pliant and inviting. This Clos du Marquis wine is succulent dark cherry, red plum, mocha, spice and licorice are all super-expressive in this wonderfully open, radiant Saint-Julien. This 2017 Clos du Marquis Grand Vin has a plush fruit and silky contours add to the wine’s considerable appeal. Best of all, the 2017 vintage Marquis will drink well with minimal cellaring. This Bordeaux red is such a beautiful and expressive wine.
The 2017 Clos Du Marquis wine, which has a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, and a splash of Cabernet Franc.
94 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
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