Château Hyon La Fleur 2022 – Saint-Emilion

Château Hyon La Fleur 2022 – Saint-Emilion

The nose is elegant, with a small concentration of finesse and offers velvety and a certain fleshiness/flesh as well as a beautiful pulpiness. It reveals lovely toasted notes, fleshy strawberry, crushed raspberry and small notes of blackberry associated with fine clayey touches, small touches of dense fruits as well as a discreet hint of morello…

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Château Rolland-Maillet 2022 – Saint-Emilion

Château Rolland-Maillet 2022 – Saint-Emilion

The nose is fruity, fresh, floral and offers elegance, a certain intensity as well as a fine tight side currently. This wine needs to be decanted. We find notes of violet, iris and slight notes of licorice stick associated with touches of wild blackcurrant, gray pepper, delicate almost clove-like hints as well as a subtle…

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Château Beynat – Terre Amoureuse 2022 – Saint-Emilion

Château Beynat – Terre Amoureuse 2022 – Saint-Emilion

The nose is fruity, precise, finely spicy and offers a lovely racy grain as well as airiness in the power of its grain. It reveals notes of violet, morello cherry and small notes of concentrated cassis associated with touches of black pepper, concentrated small red fruits as well as almost balsamic hints, nutmeg, spices and…

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Campogiovanni Il Quercione 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Campogiovanni Il Quercione 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose is aromatic, savoury, expressive and spicy, with distinct tertiary touches of dry tobacco, dry leaves, a touch of dried rose and undergrowth. Then, it expresses notes of ripe, roasted and dried fresh fruits (crushed morello cherry, roasted red cherry, dried red cherry), sweet spices (nutmeg, dried liquorice, cardamom), cocoa, mint chocolate, a herbaceous…

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Camigliano Gualto 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Camigliano Gualto 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose is delicate, but concentrated, with distinct, but envelopped tertiary notes (tobacco, undergrowth in the background, dried leaves). Then, we find notes of dried and macerated fruits (a delicate touch of prunes, crushed blackcurrant, red cherry, crushed morello cherry, raspberry, roasted strawberry in the background), a delicate spiciness (nutmeg, cardamom, white pepper, liquorice) and…

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Cupano 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Cupano 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose is complex and concentrated. It expresses notes of fresh and dried ripe fruits (morello cherry, dried blackcurrant, blackberry, dried red cherry), savoury and generous spices (liquorice, cumin, vanilla in the background, coriander seeds, nutmeg, a touch of pepper), aromatic herbs (bouquet garni, bay leaf, sage and dried mint), a delicate touch of faded…

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Banfi Poggio alle Mura 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Banfi Poggio alle Mura 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose expresses notes of maceration, balsamic, a racy minerality (tar, dry stone), ripe and dried fruits (red cherry, morello cherry, black plum, red plum, strawberry, dried cherry, raspberry, cranberries), lots of spices (nutmeg, cardamom, liquorice, white pepper, cumin), toasted hazelnut and toasted almond, as well as a good bitterness of cocoa and the freshness…

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Banfi Poggio all’Oro 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Banfi Poggio all’Oro 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose requires aeration, and then expresses ripe and macerated fruits (crushed strawberry, ripe morello cherry, macerated morello cherry, crushed raspberry, wild blackberry), balsamic, a touch of gourmet chocolate (mint chocolate, cocoa), roasted and fresh herbs (roasted bouquet garni, fresh thyme), a floral bouquet (lilac, dried rose), fresh tobacco, a very light note of mushrooms…

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Ruffino Greppone Mazzi Riserva 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

Ruffino  Greppone Mazzi Riserva 2019 – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva

The nose is closed at first and needs aeration, but expresses tension, complexity and a refined spicy and herbal side, as well as juicy and dried ripe fruits (especially the savory side that comes out first – tobacco, nutmeg, liquorice, dried mint, hint of balsamic, sage), combined with notes of toasted almond, sweet coffee and…

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San Polino Helichrysum 2017 – Brunello di Montalcino

San Polino Helichrysum 2017 – Brunello di Montalcino

The nose offers a lot of freshness, despite a hot summer during this vintage. We find aromas of blackcurrant, juicy blueberry, redcurrant, raspberry and juicy strawberry, associated with notes of fresh aromatic herbs (mint, rosemary), sweet spices with a menthol and aniseed nuances (liquorice, cardamom, hint of star anise, as well as vanilla), sweet floral…

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