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Drinking Window: 2025-2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 93 WE, 93 TA, 93 Decanter Region: Rioja Alavesa ABV: 15.5% "Commanding intensity and palate coating tannins lead the charge with this full bodied Tempranillo from Rioja. Aromatics of crushed fennel seed, wet tobacco and cocoa linger through flavors of dark fruits robed in spiced chocolate. A kiss of balsamic appear through the finish. Lavish, structured, and delicious." Wine Enthusiast - Tasted: May 2026
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2044 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 96 WI Region: Tuscany ABV: 14% "The 2020 Poggio al Granchio shows a dark ruby-red color with garnet hints. The nose offers black cherries, plums, floral notes, white pepper, and a savory ferrous character. Well-defined tannins balance with vibrant acidity, creating a juicy mouthfeel. The finish is persistent with fruit and spice notes, delivering structure and expressions." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2025-2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 James Suckling Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7-14.8%"A super creamy, delicious and detailed red with oodles of red fruit, silky tannins and a full body. It tastes pure, fresh, almost delicate, offering raspberries, cherry cream, blueberries, cafe au lait and subtle oak toast on the palate. A gentle, layered, pretty wine that seems not at all affected by the wildfire smoke that year. Drinkable now, but best from 2030."* James Suckling - Tasted: April 2025
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Drinking Window: 2024 - 2032 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 92 CT Region: Toscana IGT ABV: 13.5% "This wine is a blend of Sangiovese grosso, Cabernet and Merlot. This combination, with clay-based soil and particular climate, are the ingredients which create a superior red nectar. With a deep ruby red color tending to garnet with age has a round, complete and elegant bouquet. Hints of wood can be perceived amidst the typical herbaceous notes. Its flavour is dry, full and smooth." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2024-2028 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 94 VV Region: Montefalco ABV: 15.0% "Lifted nose of blackberries and blood oranges with hints of licorice and black pepper. The palate is firm and austere, with a full body, over-extracted tannins and moderate acidity. It needs time for aging to soften the tannin and develop more complexity. Try after 2026" *James Suckling - Tasted: May 2024
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Drinking Window: 2024 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 97 RP, 97 AMA Region: Toscana IGT ABV: 14.5% "Elegant, bright ruby red colour with a subtly brightening core. Elegant hints of earth, wet stone and oak on the nose, reminiscent of chocolate powder, black elderberries and some mint after a little airing. Pithy on the palate, with tight-knit, grippy tannins, lots of juiciness, shows good tension, on the graphite, shows vertical progression, powerful finish." * Falstaff - Tasted: Sept. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 94 WS, 94 Decanter Region: Ribera del Duero ABV: 14 - 14.5% "A brooding and chewy Ribera del Duero with coffee, baked black cherries and blackberries on the nose. Full-bodied, powerful and extracted, with chewy tannins and a tight, flavorful finish. Try from 2026." * James Suckling - Tasted: Nov. 2024
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2052 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 WS, 99 OB, 99 WI Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5%"What must be one of the finest renditions of this wine, the 2021 Cardinale is composed of nearly all Cabernet Sauvignon at 91% with the remainder being Merlot. Stored in 80% new French oak before bottling, this is a massive beast. A brilliant mélange of blackberry combine with tar, graphite, anise and creme de cassis on the plate. Big and round, with refined tannins and a generous mouthfeel, everything is firing on all cylinders." * Owen Bargreen - Tasted: Nov. 2024
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 JD Region: Ribera del Duero ABV: 15.00% "Its truly a beautiful expression of variety, vintage, and site, reaching perfection. Impeccable, polished and magnificent wine with a lifespan of 18 years". Crafted from 100% tempranillo, dark fruit rules the roost in this well balanced wine. On the nose macerated plums, black cherries and blackberries intermingle with sweet spices, black pepper, cocoa, vanilla and tobacco leaf from the oak, with hints of cedar wood, earth and graphite also coming through. Intense and concentrated on the palate, it's a powerful, complex and multi-layered wine with high acid, sweet fine-grained tannins, and a long finish." * Jeb Dunnuck
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2033 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 92 OB Region: Sonoma Valley ABV: 12.1% "Brioche and bright red raspberry tones mark the nose with red rose petals and dried cranberry notes. The palate is round and generous on the mouth, loaded with texture and salty minerals. A joy to drink now, enjoy over the next eight plus years." *Owen Bargreen - Tasted November 2024
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 94 JS Region: Spain ABV: 15% “Dark mushrooms, spices and leather with cedar and black plums. Ripe yet juicy with plenty of blackberries and a twist of citrus and vanilla. Medium-to-full-bodied with dusty tannins and a very lengthy finish. Pretty traditional and linear, this Rioja is excellent to drink now but will benefit from extra time in the bottle. ” * Zekun Shual,- James Suckling
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Drinking Window: 2024-2031 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 97 TA Region: Colchagua Valley, Chile ABV: 14.5% "Terrific aromas of black fruit and blackcurrants with dried spices such as thyme, rosemary and oregano. Notes of dried figs, tomato leaves and blackberry leaves. Medium-bodied with very fine tannins that are polished and so attractive. Refined and caressing in the finish. Structured tannins at the end. Very drinkable and enjoyable now. Slightly low alcohol this year. Why wait?" *James Suckling - Tasted February 2024
