2018 Roagna - Barolo Rocche di CastiglioneColour : Red Producer : Roagna Label Name : Barolo Rocche di Castiglione Country : Italy Region : Piedmont Sub Region : Barolo Variety : Nebbiolo Vintage : 2018 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Ratings : Wine Spectator 95 pts, Vinous 94 pts Tasting notes : The 2018 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is very tightly wound at this stage. Sweet dried fruit, leather, tobacco, spices and leather are beautifully interwoven. Here, too, the flavour profile tends

Colour : White Producer : Laville Haut-Brion Country : France Region : Bordeaux Sub Region : Pessac-Leognan Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2007 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Rating : 92 points Tasting Note : Very pale

vibrant natural acidity and an extraordinarily long

Full-bodied with searing but now softening tannins

Avize and Oger

The variety itself is among the most unusual and compelling in the Italian white wine canon: naturally high in acidity and phenolics

Gattinara is produced from Nebbiolo (locally called Spanna) grown on volcanic porphyry soils in the Sesia Valley of northern Piedmont

refreshing acidity

wafting from the glass with scents of sweet cassis

Breathtakingly wide spectrum of floral honey

produced in 2005 what is widely considered one of the finest Palmer vintages in the past thirty years

with the signature American oak influence of toasted coconut

Production was extremely small