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ITALIAN White & Red - Listed by Grower

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Avail.
Btl
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Wine
Where available, tasting scores and notes are by Robert Parker (RP) and taken from his website www.erobertparker.com, Stephen Tanzer (ST) from www.wineaccess.com and Wine Spectator (WS) from www.winespectator.com
Year
Price per
Bottle
including
VAT
Tasting
Score/Notes
Best Drinking
           
     LAMBORGHINI
Yes, these are the same people who make the ultra fast and expensive sports cars, which may say something for the wine!
   
 
30
75cl
Campoleone
RP -
One of the most spectacular wines made in Italy, this unfined/unfiltered, Merlot/Sangiovese blend (about 3,400 cases produced) boasts an extraordinary perfume of saddle leather, smoke, cassis, prunes, and plums. Rich, full-bodied, and voluptuously-textured, with layers of concentrated fruit, a magnificent seamlessness, and a huge, explosive finish. It is a wine of great stature as well as intensity.
2000 £39.00 RP95
2002-17
24
75cl
Campoleone
RP -
This famed 50% Merlot/50% Sangiovese blend comes from a parcel of just under 20 acres. The compelling 1999 Campoleone (20,000 bottles produced) was aged in 100% French oak and bottled without fining or filtration by oenologist Riccardo Cotarella. A dense opaque purple colour is accompanied by scents of new saddle leather, blackberry and cassis fruit, liquorice, roasted meats, and graphite. Full-bodied and sweet, with a fabulous texture, ripe tannin, adequate acidity, and brilliant definition, this is a tour de force in winemaking.
1999 £69.00 RP96
2001-16
           
    MASCARELLO, GIUSEPPE
Yes, this is a really excellent source for wonderful Barolo wines at fair prices.
Try the Monprivato, but give time to age in your cellar!
   
 
10
75cl
Barolo Monprivato
RP -
The 2001 Barolo Monprivato, a light to medium red, represents the highest level of elegance, with a captivating nose of roses, tar, orange peel, cinnamon and liquorice, followed by layers of sweet dark fruit and minerals that evolve in a never-ending counterpoint of aromas and sensations, with much depth, precision and freshness on the finish. Everything is perfectly in balance here – still my guess is that this great wine is showing only a hint of its potential. It is one of the finest Monprivatos in recent memory and a wine no one who is passionate about Barolo should be without.
2001 £51.00 RP95
2009-26
           
    PICCOLOMINI, CIACCI
Top wines at affordable prices!
   
 
29
75cl
Ateo Rosso Toscana
RP -
The 1998 Ateo (a blend of 60% Sangiovese and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon) is a gloriously ripe, full-bodied, velvety-textured effort with a dark ruby/purple colour, plenty of smoky, earthy, blackberry, cherry, and currant fruit, a touch of graphite, decent acidity, and a seamless, opulent, voluptuous finish.
1998 £19.00 RP93
2001-13
31
75cl
Rosso di Montalcino
RP -
Ciacci Piccolomini's 2000 is the finest Rosso di Montalcino I have ever tasted. This deep ruby/garnet-coloured, outrageously rich Rosso boasts an explosive bouquet of smoke, dried herbs, black fruits, tobacco, and fruit cake. Luscious and opulently-textured, with a sensual, velvety-textured feel that cascades over the palate with no hard edges.
2000 £17.00 RP91
2002-10
           
    PIRA, LUIGI
A top Barolo address, making great wines at prices that are fair considering their quality!
   
 
21
75cl
Barolo
Margheria
RP -
The dark plum-coloured 1998 Barolo Margheria exhibits structure as well as a backward character. It is full-bodied, with outstanding concentration, offering notes of chocolate, black cherry liqueur, spice box, and earth. There is plenty of glycerine, moderate tannin, and a long, 40-second finish in this tightly-knit effort.
1998 £37.00 RP94
2001-17

Great Barolo Year!

           
    SCAVINO, PAOLO
One of our favourite Barolo estates, making wines in a more modern, easy to drink style. Lots of fruit, body and style.
   
 
27
75cl
Barolo
ST -
 Good full red. Musky aromas of cherry and redcurrant. Sweet and chewy, with very good clarity of flavour, if a bit reduced today. Firmly built Barolo with plenty of dimension, offering solid structure and good verve for the vintage, not to mention personality. Finishes long and firmly tannic.
2000 £27.00 ST90
2005-14
 
33
75cl
Barolo
Bric dell Fiasc
RP -
A dramatic, provocative effort is the 1998 Barolo Bric del Fiasc. It possesses awesome levels of concentration, considerable power, immense body, and a fabulously pure, concentrated style. With impressive quantities of black fruits, liquorice, minerals, asphalt, earth, and truffles, this Barolo is notable for its purity, high extract levels, and seamlessness.
1998 £52.00 RP94
2004-18

Great Barolo Year!

14
75cl
Barolo
Bric dell Fiasc
RP -
From a well-known Castiglione Falletto vineyard, the 1997 Barolo Bric del Fiasc reveals the essence of cherry jam in its massive constitution. It is a powerful, full-bodied effort displaying pronounced black cherry liqueur-like aromas and flavours, huge extract and glycerine, and 14.5-15% alcohol. Remarkably pure, delineated, and balanced for a wine of such massiveness.
1997 £62.00 RP95
Now-2020

TOP Vintage!

           
    SIMONELLI-SANTI
Aristocratic estate making very good dessert wine.
   
 
15
50cl
Vin Santo
(Sweet Dessert Wine)
2000 £17.00 Made mainly from Malvasia and Trebbiano, the grapes are dried in open lofts prior to pressing. The wine is then stored in small barrels for 3 years prior to release.

Top Quality!

           
    TENUTA dell'ORNELLAIA
One of the TOP Tuscan estates making the famed Ornellaia and Masseto wines.
We have decided to be more modest; and will feature their 'drinking' wines which are very well made by the same top wine maker, but priced for enjoyment without breaking the bank!
   
 
24
75cl
Le Volte
A blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
Pleasant red cherry and smoke aromas are complemented by mint and spice. Soft and sweet on the palate, with juicy flavours of red cherry and plum fruit.
2006 £16.00
2008-14
 
           
      TINAZZI La BASTIA
A very good produces, his wines are hard to get hold of, especially in a great vintage like 1997!
   
 
2
75cl
Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico 1997
£32.00
 
Top quality vintage; drinking well now and until 2020.
12
75cl
Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico 2001
£29.00
 
Another fine vintage, which will keep to 2030:
Wonderful slightly sweet opening flavours lead through a complexity of tastes to that bitter spicy finish -just what Amarone should taste like.
           
    VALDICAVA
One of the very best Brunello producers, wines are very classic, with lovely full flavours.
   
 
42
75cl
Brunello di Montalcino
WS -
Dark-coloured, with intense aromas of ripe fruit, coffee and toasted oak. Full-bodied, with a depth of ripe fruit and delicious black liquorice flavours and silky tannins. Beauty.
1999 £47.00 WS94
2006-22
           
    VALDIPIATTA
Another family business focusing on quality, they regularly get top marks from the Italian wine press!
   
 
9
75cl
Vino Nobile
di Montepulciano
RP -
The 2000 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, a dark ruby, offers the warm, ripe, almost roasted nose of a hot vintage. The ample flavours, dense and rich, upholster the palate with velvety tannins, and the concentration is balanced with much suppleness and roundness.
2000 £24.00 RP90
2005-12
22
75cl
Vino Nobile
di Montepulciano
Vigna d'Alfiero
RP -
The spectacular 1999 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Vigne d'Alfiero boasts a saturated ruby/purple colour as well as a compelling perfume of blackberries, currants, new saddle leather, and espresso. Dense and full-bodied, with great fruit, elegance, and succulence/suppleness.
1999 £29.00 RP92
2004-17
6
75cl
Vino Nobile
di Montepulciano
Reserva
 
1995 £28.00 An excellent vintage; an intense and complex wine with rich and powerful flavours.
Now - 2015

Has won a Silver Medal at the International Wine Challenge 2000 in London.

Bin End Price

           
    VOLPI
Our favourite 'value for money' estate; try these wines, I am sure you will not be disappointed!
   
 
29
75cl
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
'Bucaro'
2001 £10.00 Made from organically grown grapes; full of fruit and flavour.
Judicious use of oak that gives this wine  a very smooth structure.

Wonderful with pasta and pizza!

36
75cl
SU SU SU
Made from a blend of 95% Barbera and 5% Cabernet; this is an intense wine with a rich velvety taste with powerful flavours of red and blackberry fruits.
2001/3 £12.00 A firm client favourite: goes well with Cheese, Pasta and Red Meat dishes. Has a long expansive finish and will provide great pleasure.
Now-2010
           


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