The 2006 L’Amarine Rose, medium pink in colour, aromatically displaying some ripe red fruits, the palate offers sweet juicy fruit and a very good mouthfeel, clean and crisp with a nice finish.

A terrific value for people seeking a medium sweet white sparkler with a huge perfume, the Tenuta Santa Anna Moscato offers up scents of honeyed orange marmalade along with fruit cocktail-like flavours. Medium-bodied, with copious floral characteristics as well as crisp acidity, it requires consumption during its first 1-2 years of life.

People looking for fun wines to drink and savour should consider this, light salmon coloured, with assertive toasty, smoky aromas carrying through on the palate, where the mature flavours of bread dough, kir and baked apples are firm and long. Clean and well focused.

This fun and intriguing sparkling Cabernet has a black fruit-scented nose. In the mouth, the wine reveals tiny pinpoint bubbles, very good effervescence, dry, rich flavours, and a bold, striking personality. It's not for everybody, and I must admit drinking ruby-colored sparkling wines takes some getting used to, but this example is more interesting and on tasting for the second time, I decided to try it on the market.

For me, this is one of the stand out wines of the Torre Rosazza range, pale yellow, this offer lovely aromas and flavours of peach, pear, pineapple and acacia honey, medium bodied with lovely acidity and good texture ending with touches of fennel on the long finish. Complex but so enjoyable simply to drink on its own.
April 2007

Slightly grassy notes to the orange blossom aromas, flavours of citrus dominate with touches of apple, pear, rich honey coated hazelnut, mineral and vanilla, this wine clearly demontrates what is possible with good vintage conditions in Northern Italy from a top producer.

The 2006 Ribolla Gialla is a notch above the usual shrilly acidic wines of this variety, lightly golden in colour, floral, honeyed, wafting, and subtle, but expressive and elegant as well, ample and long on the palate with light tropical notes to balance the citric fruit and a long, vibrant finish. It will easily last another two or three years.

The steely Albariño from Pazo de Señorans this year exhibits a straw/green colour as well as superb linear purity, so tight for the present but loads of texture, with coxing it reveals a massive slate/mineral aspect, Napoli Lemon, pear, apricot and a spicy, honeyed, rich, super elegant bone dry style. My knowledge and history of these wines suggests that it will develop beautifully over the next six months and drink well through 2010. Having produced five of the Worlds six top rated Albariño wines over the period 2000-2005 inclusive, this new vintage is a further testament to the artisan efforts of this wonderful estate. If you want to drink this gorgeous style of wine, why look anywhere else. Tasted 15th February 2007. This is the only producer where we have purchased consequative vintages, now seven, since setting up the company. Indepenently rated as the "Worlds Best" Albarino produced in 2006.

Medium straw colour. Rich, smoky aromas of peach, mirabelle and apricot. Fat and dense on the palate; in fact, almost thick, with creamy, exotic flavors of lichee, guava and mango, accented by refreshing mint. Really dramatic on the palate, but this finishes clean and brisk.

Full on ruby-red, with deep aromas of currant, liquorice, graphite and smoky oak on the nose. Very juicy, serious and insinuating, with sweet currant and mineral flavours framed by ripe acidity and firm tannic spine. Finishes with noteworthy persistence and purity. This received almost all of the estate's cabernet franc in 2006. This is not your typical second wine-on the contrary, it's a rather more Pauillac style of St. Julien that will likely require some years of cellaring.