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The top wine from Diane’s Estate just south of Nimes. Constantly written up and most recently in Decanter Magazine who gave it four stars: “This mainly Mourvedre wine is on rocking good form.” 90% Mourvedre, 10% Grenache from 80 year old vines. This has a beautifully spicy nose with a scent of violets and a palate so rich you would almost think this it was a sweet wine! Decant and drink now or cellar for 10 years! Roast Beef never found a better partner! Drink now to 2018.
Red Blends
Big & Robust Reds
France
2011
750 ml
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The top wine from Diane’s Estate just south of Nimes. Constantly written up and most recently in Decanter Magazine who gave it four stars: “This mainly Mourvedre wine is on rocking good form.” 90% Mourvedre, 10% Grenache from 80 year old vines. This has a beautifully spicy nose with a scent of violets and a palate so rich you would almost think this it was a sweet wine! Decant and drink now or cellar for 10 years! Roast Beef never found a better partner! Drink now to 2018.
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Previous vintages recommended; Recommended in The Daily Telegraph: “another one of Mark Hughes’ brilliant finds. Absolutely delicious blend of Primitivo, Negro Amaro and Malvasia. Lush and plush like velvet, also juicy, scented, intense, rich brimming with the smell of violets, deep purple plums and bitter cherries. Such a joy!
Recommended by Oz Clarke as one of his 250 best wines of 2012: “an excellent example of how southern Italian reds are starting to express their own fabulous originality. It’s bulging with youth and it’s soft, yet tempered by a nice edgy bitterness.”
The label is attention-seeking, as is the bright red plastic cork (not my favourite closure, I must admit, but the wine insisted I buy it! The wine has attitude and is a provocative one, railing against the plight of the region (see their website). The region reminds me of the Languedoc in France – loads of rubbish wines but increasing numbers of fanatics making really top wines as they should be made. This was one of my favourite winery visits recently. The wine is made from a blend of the local varieties Primitivo, Negro Amaro and Malvasia Nera and should be consumed in conspiratorial bars in the south of Italy with huge helpings of pasta.
Drink now to end 2018.
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Great quaffing wine, but rather a superior quaffing wine from a great Estate in Robertson! Green appley characters but not sharp. Refreshing and fruity, finishes with that touch of minerality which elevates it from the masses. Lovely summer wine….and any other time!
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Each year the wonderful people at Verus produce consistently dazzling, pure, clean, fruity, mouthwatering wines.
One previous vintage was selected as Top 25 Whites for Christmas 2012 by Jancis Robinson MW Financial Times. But there are many more such recommendations.
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