This 100% estate Pais is from a 200 year old single vineyard in the Maule region. Sweet notes of plum, almonds, anise, and brown sugar on the nose with hints of pineapple sage, pine nettles, and and brown sugar lead to a smooth, nicely balanced palate. This wine has a wild almost salve quality.

Massican’s varietal Sauvignon Blanc is lean, as always. It’s pale, and its fragrance suggests earthy yellow citrus fruits, grass, light flowers. The midsection and finish are lemon-limey, quite sharp. This is not a tropical wine, not fruity (although there is fruit). Mostly there is acid and a spare, silvan, moonlight through birch trees luminance.

The wine is quite aromatic and jumps out of your glass with the classic Provence tug of war between wild red fruit berries as if you just picked them along a path to the beach, floral notes of lavender and rose petal and underlying savory herbes de Provence. It is beautifully crisp and flavorful on the palate with medium body and notes of red berries, bing cherrie & spice.

From a stash in their cellars in Bairrada, Caves São João has released several older vintages, including this elegant 1990. It’s a classic taste of Portugal: delicate notes of strawberry, roasted fennel, dark, woodsy mushrooms and powerfully gripping tannins. Those tannins have the rasp of a sand dollar, the perfect counterpoint for leitão, the crisp-skinned roast suckling pig

a vibrant light peach color. On the nose are spicy aromatics of nectarine, grapefruit pith, yellow raspberry, and crushed rock. The mouth is bright with flavors of raspberry and watermelon, with mouthwatering acidity giving focus to a long finish with flavors of lemon drop, sea spray, and a little rose petal florality.

This is a gorgeous Sauvignon Blanc, which delivers vivid aromas of lime, Asian pear, lychee, tropical fruit and white flowers. On the palate this is fresh and crisp, with excellent balance and depth of flavor, as it all comes together beautifully on the lovely bright finish. 91 Points from the International Wine Report.

This wine shows a
very fresh aromatic expression of quin
ce paste,
ripe pear, lemon peel
and
hint of
flint.
On the palate the wine
strikes a nice balance of lime, oyster like m
inerality, and finishes
very soft and delicate.
The
combination of its great tension and
energy should allow this wine to develop now through
2022

Accentuated, bright ruby red colour accompanied by a bouquet with a nicely vinous and intense finesse, featuring pleasant scents of cherry and fruits of the forest. The palate is full of body, with a pleasant and lingering finish.

Aged 6 month in clay amphora. Clean, elegant and textured. Very unique wine. Nascetta produces wines that are assertively perfumed with Muscat-like floral qualities that lead to riper, tropical fruit aromas. It also has a fresh palate, with crisp apple flavors and citrus and honey notes.

Deep purplish, almost impenetrable red. Elegant, sweet and tempting, the intense and fruity notes characteristic of Barbera emerge. Vinous, fresh and well balanced. An easy to drink wine which is tasty and rich without being excessively binding.

Subtle aromas of red berries, flowers, spices and earth; I would have picked this blind as Pinot Noir but then it is. Offers lovely texture and concentration for rosé, with lively framing acidity and pungent mineral lift to its red fruit and floral flavors. The dry, tactile finish features a refreshing salty chewiness that makes the wine downright gulpable.

"Balance and proportion best describe the character of our Russian River Chardonnay; it displays abundant floral/ stone fruit aromas lightly accented by toasty, graham cracker sur-lie qualities. The mouth feel is creamy and full but the natural acidity of the Russian River fruit carries this velvet textured package to a long, clean finish."