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LANZAGA 2021-Telmo Rodriguez
The Rioja red 2021 Lanzaga is their village wine from Lanciego (but it's crossed out on the label). It's subtler but powerful and produced each year with better vineyards. The vines are getting older, and there is more of a varietal mix (it has only 55% Tempranillo) with lots of Garnacha and Graciano. It's perfumed and clean, a great result of a blending exercise, with integrated oak. It has 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.7 and moderate acidity, but there's a sense of much more freshness, with very fine and elegant tannins, velvety, the signature of the year. It doesn't have a Burgundy bottle, and it's not sealed with wax, but it's a lot more elegant and with a profile that has gradually changed since 2014 or 2015. It matured in 1,500- and 2,500-liter oak vats and some 225-liter barrels for 14 months. It's probably better than ever.
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DOMAINE LE MOURRE CHATEAUNNEUF-DU-PAPE 2022-Cellier des Princes
The 2022 Chateauneuf du Pape Domaine le Mourre is a charming, vibrant effort offering aromas of flowers, dark cherries, spices and garrigue. Medium-bodied, fleshier and juicier than the Cuvée Sainte Vierge, it's layered and delicate with good depth at the core and a long, fresh, penetrating finish. Destemmed and matured for 18 months in concrete tanks, it is derived from vines planted on equal parts of galets roulés and safres.
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PIEROPAN LA ROCCA 2023-Pieropan
Celebrating its milestone 45th anniversary (1978–2023), the Pieropan 2023 Soave Classico La Rocca shines with golden intensity and offers a compelling bouquet that draws from both the character of Garganega and from careful oak aging. This 100% Garganega is aged in 500-liter French and Slavonian oak for 15 months. Varietal tones include stone fruit, preserved lemon and crushed oyster shell. Oak nuances of nutmeg and saffron add framing and depth.
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PIEROPAN CALVARINO 2023-Pieropan
This is always one of my favorite wines from Pieropan. Fruit comes from an 8.5-hectare cru planted in 1971 on volcanic soils, and the wine is aged in cement vats for a prolonged 15 months. The organic 2023 Soave Classico Calvarino (made with 70% Garganega and 30% Trebbiano di Soave) is a real beauty, with textural heft and an especially silky approach that wraps smoothly over the palate. The bouquet is beautifully complex with hints of honey, apricot and poached apple. I love the intensity and the seamless quality of this mid-weight white. Salty mineral nuances fuel an elegant mouthfeel
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LOUIS MICHEL & FILS CHABLIS SECHETS PREMIER CRU 2022-Domaine Louis Michel & Fils
From another court-noué-impacted parcel that produces relatively small yields—35 hectoliters per hectare, to be precise—the 2022 Chablis 1er Cru Séchets is exhibiting notes of white flowers, lemon peel and beeswax mingling with oyster shell. It is medium to full-bodied, concentrated and racy, with a long, pungently intense finish. Together with Butteaux Vieilles Vignes, it’s one of the highlights of Michel’s premiers crus.
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RAVENTOS I BLANC BLANC DE BLANCS 2023-Raventos i Blanc
The 2023 Blanc de Blancs has a textbook nose of Mediterranean sparkling with notes of aromatic herbs, dry hay and straw, reflecting the third year of extremely dry conditions in the zone that delivered a small crop that was harvested earlier than ever and resulted in more concentrated wines. It's 50% Xarel.lo, 35% Macabeu, 10% Parellada and 5% Malvasía de Sitges that didn't go through malolactic and refermented and matured in bottle with lees for 18 months. They have access to great grapes (all organic) to produce this wine. It has a vibrant palate with abundant small bubbles and a spark of freshness and is balanced, clean and easy to drink.
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CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE LES HAUTS DES COTEAUX 2019-Cellier des Princes
Another special cuvée, the 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape les Hauts des Coteaux is a blend of 90% Grenache and 5% each Mourvèdre and Syrah. Maturation takes place in a mix of new oak barriques (20%), older wood (40%) and concrete tanks (40%). Scents of purple raspberries lead the way, and it's expressive but less floral than the single-domaine wines. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied and rich, velvety and plush, long and concentrated.
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ZUCCARDI FINCA PIEDRA INFINITA 2016-Zuccardi Wines
I was blown away by the 2016 Finca Piedra Infinita, a wine I have been anticipating because I’ve seen the progression of the wine over the last few years. They use almost 40 different components to make this wine from small plots within the vineyard, especially the soils they call "supercalcáreo" (super limestone). The other type of soil they use is what they call "gravas calcáreas" (limestone gravels), and they don’t use any of the grapes from the deeper soils that go into the Q range. The wine has reached a stratospheric level of precision, symmetry and elegance in 2016 that is really captivating. Everything seems to be in its place; there is great harmony, the aromatics are clean and pure and the texture is like liquid chalk. There is power and elegance, energy and finesse. This is a really outstanding wine that summarizes the hard work at Zuccardi in the last few years.
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THORLE SCHLOSSBERG RIESLING ECO 2023-Weingut Thorle
The 2023 Saulheimer Schlossberg Riesling trocken offers a deep, pure, intense yet refined and elegant bouquet with aromas of ripe and partly caramelized white-fleshed seed fruits and citrus fruits and notes of iron and flint. Dense and tightly structured as well as saline on the palate, this Schlossberg combines intensity and decisiveness with vitality and finesse. It is even a playful yet serious Riesling, long and with fine bitters. The 2023 is already impressive and should develop slowly in the bottle. 13% stated alcohol.
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JUAN GIL BLUE LABEL 2021-Bodegas Juan Gil
The oak of the 2021 Juan Gil (blue label) is subtler and feels more integrated into the wine. It's a fresher year of wines with more freshness and better balance, more elegance and length. It has 15.5% alcohol and finishes dry. 30,000 bottles produced.
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JUAN GIL BLUE LABEL 2022-Bodegas Juan Gil
The oak of the 2021 Juan Gil (blue label) is subtler and feels more integrated into the wine. It's a fresher year of wines with more freshness and better balance, more elegance and length. It has 15.5% alcohol and finishes dry. 30,000 bottles produced.
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CUVEE RESERVEE CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE 2019-Domaine du Pegau
As I wrote previously, the 2019 Châteauneuf du Pape Cuvée Réservée looks set to rival the best examples of this bottling. Made up of approximately 80% Grenache, with 6% Syrah, 4% Mourvèdre and smaller amounts of other permitted varieties, it's impressively complex on the nose, with scents of black cherries, blackberries and black olives, plus mysterious wafts of violets and garrigue. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated, it finishes long and velvety, a sure-fire bet for cellaring. It's gratifying to see wines evolve as expected during their élevage and make it into bottle just as remembered.