The 2020 Rosso di Montalcino is dark and youthfully inward, as nuances of black currant and licorice are offset by crushed ashen stone. It’s silky and enveloping, yet with a saline-core of minerality and bright acids that create a more tactile feel, as...
Phil "discovered" this wine in a chance meeting at the Air France lounge in Bordeaux! This blend of 70% Sauvignon blanc, 20% Sémillon, 10% Muscadelle is a textbook white Bordeaux that is wonderfully crisp and jut plain fun to drink. Fun fact: Hubert De Boüard (owner of Chateau Angelus in St. Emilion) consults on this wine!
The nose is shy with a faint note of lemon. The palate then presents a cool, lemon-edged sense of juicy pear but remains streamlined and bright, giving the merest edge of almond skin bitterness. The finish is bone dry and mouth-watering. (bone dry)
The 2021 Riesling Cuvee Theo is harvested in the granitic sand of the Clos des Capucins. The palate has the taut, bright citrus wonder we know. A light bodied, vivid and dry Rieslng shining with ripe lemon and subtle tangerine. The finish is bone dry an...