Country: Australia Region: Adelaide Hills
Varietal: Chardonnay Vintage: 2021
Category: White Wine Style: Dry
Producer: d’Arenberg
Description:During summer, native Bearded Dragon lizards find their way into grapes destined for the winery. Luckily for the lizards, the gentleness of our crusher allows them to pass through the ordeal slightly shaken, but unharmed.
Tasting Notes:A flourishing bouquet with flashes of pineapple, pear drop, honey suckle, raw cashew and a hint of seas pray. In youth there is a reasonable volume of fruit, although the palate still manages to appear taught with a sorbet like freshness to the acidity. Flavours err on the savoury side, preserved lemon, spice, cold stone with just a ripple of lemon butter. The finish has a beeswax nature to it but once again the perfectly pitched acidity and slightly saline tail will urge you to take another sip. Fresh and savoury in youth, promising to deliver even greater complexity and texture with time
Food Matches: A versatile wine that can be equally enjoyed on its own, aperitif style, or with a wide range of spicy foods, white meat and seafood focused dishes.
Country: France Region: Pays d'Oc
Vintage: 2019 Colour: Red Style: Dry
Producer: Marquis de Goulaine
Description:This winery is quite remarkable: it is accepted as the oldest continuous wine producer in the world, making wine since around 1000 AD. It is also the third oldest company in the world too. The noble family are alive and well, still own the beautiful Chateau de Goulaine as the ancestral home. The marquis himself is a figure reminiscent of the Scottish enlightenment; very keen on the arts and botany, in fact the family run a butterfly farm on the estate.
Tasting Note:This Merlot proffers a lovely depth of ripe plum and prune combined with an almost herbal quality.
Food Matches:
Beef, particularly grilled or roast beef and filet mignon.
Blue cheese, Cheddar cheese, Gorgonzola.