108, 2011
Wine Enthusiast Scores: August 2011
In the August 2011 Issue of the Wine Enthusiast several of Grapevine's wines earned excellent scores. Call you local independent retailer to order some of these wines: Amizetta 2007 [...]
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Fresh, fruity, sinfully ripe. Light straw yellow in color with delicate and harmonious fresh fruit flavors in the mouth with perfect balanced acidity. Deep nose of peach, fresh almonds and melon. Brisk notes of pineapple juice and lemon zest are lively on the tongue, with flinty aromas of crushed stones and wildflowers. A lush mouth of gooseberries, zesty pineapple and crunchy green plums makes this the juiciest and most refreshing wine ever. Delicious and invigorating. - Ruby Red with aromas of violets and vanilla follow through to a full-bodied palate, with soft tannins and a long, flavorful finish. This shows the freshness and vibrancy of this exceptional wine.
- Lively ruby red accompanied by a warm fragrance of mature red fruits. The taste is quite pleasant, persistent and soft.
- Produced from 40-year-old vines, this wine is a super-rich, super-ripe, inky Dolcetto. Intensely deep purple with violet reflections.Fresh and youthful, full of seductive rich fruit, well balanced, bursting with black cherries and wild flowers with a pleasing hint of almond on the long finish.
- High-class oak adds toast, smoky notes to the cherry and plum flavors in this stylish red, which is a bit made up, though successfully, with a long, spicy finish.
- Terra d’Eclano is produced with grapes from five separate vineyards entirely with Aglianico grapes. It is a seductive and elegant wine with complex aromas of berries, plums, licorice, and coffee. It has an enveloping structure with soft and silky tannins and a long finish with freshness and elegant mineral prevailing along with notes of balsamic and spices. The high complexity and the deep structure of Aglianico, grown directly in the vineyards, give terre d’eclano an extraordinary ability for long ageing in the bottle.
- Vigna Quintodecimo is a fine balance of small fruits, floral notes and spices. Seductive class and aromatic intensity is complemented by savory tannins and well expressed in a profound and refined style. It is a wine of extraordinary richness and elegance that reaches its peak within the first twenty years and still retains its character for many years after.
- Via del Campo perfectly expresses the fruity and mineral scents typical of Falanghina wine. It is a cru obtained exclusively with grapes from only one vineyard of Falanghina. It is characterized by a luminous golden color and fragrances of apple, pineapple, herbs and field flowers with refined minerals and salty notes. The delicate structure, releases menthol and toasted notes arised from the short stay during the partial fermentation in small oak barrels. Immediately likeable when young, this wine evolves in a more complex bouquet after some years in the bottle.
- Exultet is a sophisticated and elegant interpretation of Fiano di Avellino. It is a cru produced exclusively with the grapes of one Fiano vineyard. It is yellow and luminous with green reflections and fragrances of linden, acacia and thyme. It is well structured with flavors of exotic fruit, citrus and honey and a very soft mineral note. This particular elegance also derives from a partial fermentation in small oak barrels. It is a wine with great longevity which can also age for some decades thanks to its richness in precursors of aroma and the integrity of its freshness and taste. The name given to the wine derives from Exultet of Mirabella Eclano in which we can also find a tribute to bees. Exultet are liturgical parchments from the southern Italian middle ages. A kind of multimedial ante litteram product made up by parchment papers sewed together, where the texts of benedictio cerei were written accompanied by musical notations and miniatures put on the opposite side of the sheets.
- The Greco di Tufo grape is characterized by a content of coloring matter higher than the other white grapes of the Campania region. For this reason, at full maturation, this grape becomes golden with amber tones on the sun-exposed side. The must is reddish ochre. The wine, if not clarified, has an intense golden color. Giallo d’Arles is an extreme and rigorous interpretation of the Greco di Tufo wine. It is a cru produced with one vineyard of Greco grapes. The ancient yellow-golden color, typical of the denomination, is more intense also thanks to the partial fermentation in new oak barrels and thanks to the complete absence of any clarification treatments. It is a white wine with the structure of a red wine, powerful and refined, characterized by a deep minerality blended with flavors of apricot and quince marmalade and by a full and fresh taste. Giallo d’Arles has also an extraordinary predisposition to maturation in bottle, obtaining year-by-year elegance, complexity and harmony. The name given to the wine is a tribute to Van Gogh’s favorite color during his stay in Arles: a yellow which is a prelude of red.
- Its color is ruby red with an abundance of violet reflections. An intense bouquet with trace scents of cherry and ripe plum. Balanced, fresh, rightly tannic, fragrant and lush, leaving a pleasantly bitter aftertaste.
- Garnet red, with a delicate and persistent bouquet with traces of licorice, rose and tobacco. Full flavored, warm and moderately tannic.
- An intense garnet red color. A bouquet with traces of licorice and tobacco. Full flavored, full-bodied and elegant.
- The Barolo DOCG Marcenasco Conca is boldly full-bodied and tannic. It's color is garnet red. A delicate and persistent bouquet with traces of licorice and Lebanese cedar pine. Full flavored, warm and tannic.
- A slightly faded ruby red. Fine, delicate and persistent bouquet with characteristic trace scents of strawberry and raspberry. Pleasantly bitter, velvety, at once elegant and full.
- Color light yellow straw. Intense and delicate bouquet of ripe yellow apple and white flowers. Fruity taste and balanced.
- Amber in color, with a honey, liquorice and tobacco nose. Complex palate with notes of coffee, honey and sultanas.
- Intense ruby red color with fine nose of blackberries and blackcurrant notes, balsamic and spicy hints. The wine display excellent acid structure, well balanced, elegant tannins. The impact in the mouth is velvety and persistent.
- Brilliant ruby red with a fresh fruity and flowery bouquet. Clean to the palate with fragrant sensations of ripe red fruit, violet and rose. Elegant and young, delicate in length and extremely drinkable
- Deep ruby red. On the nose you immediately have roasted coffee and spice aromas in harmony with subtle hints of black cherry and strawberry. As it opens the bouquet intensifies. In the mouth you are delighted with the return of the aromas and will taste a broad spectrum of tannins and minerals.
- Intense, Cardinal red with sparkling tonalities. Resolute bouquet, with trace scents of ripe plum and an undercurrent of mixed spices. Full flavor with long persistence.