2008 Frescobaldi - GiramonteColour : Red Producer : Frescobaldi Label Name : Giramonte Country : Italy Region : Tuscany Sub Region : Toscana IGT Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2008 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Ratings : Vinous 90 pts, Wine Spectator 90 pts Tasting notes : The 2008 Giramonte is impressive for the vintage. Firm yet well integrated tannins support a core of dark cherries, plums, smoke, French oak and licorice. This is a very pretty, harmonious wine from

while subtle lees-derived complexity adds depth to the long

producing wines of excellent natural concentration and aromatic character from the zone’s finest old-vine Tempranillo sites

slow-cooked stews

like the other cool-vintage Barolos currently on the market

mineral depth and tertiary complexity that Chapoutier demands from this exceptional site

Between 40 and 50 percent whole-bunch fermentation is incorporated

allspice and caramel

The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannin

cigar wrapper and English walnuts

Intense and rich

Colour : Red Producer : Chateau Pape Clement Country : France Region : Bordeaux Sub Region : Pessac-Leognan Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 1997 Capacity : 6 L - Imperial Tasting Note : Picture in your mind a combination of cedar

but a wine that borrows the structural elegance of the former and the terroir precision of the latter while remaining distinctively Moselian in its mineral identity