James Suckling: 95
"Brilliant and intense yellow whit golden hints. A characterful wine, with notes reminiscent of exotic fruit and nuts on the nose; soft and persistent on the palate, with hints of spice, length and elegance." —winemaker
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"A different, fuller-weighted brood, boasting ample stone fruits, nutmeg and truffle. Savvy use of oak (tonneaux and larger format French) and extended lees ageing. A vineyard purchased in 1976, situated directly behind the town's castle. Lower altitude, with clay and limestone (rather than the more pervasive volcanics), finding effortless confluence with a winemaking approach that has long-defined this fuller-weighted, late-harvested, highly textural expression. While an outlier stylistically, there is often a fleck of botrytis, all tamarind and dried mango, that melds with the underlying tension to impart generosity and evince authority." —James Suckling
