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Date of publication: November 12, 2009
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Argentina
Altos Las Hormigas Reserva, Malbec Red Wine, 750 ML (11166962) Regular price: $30.75 The fairly powerful nose of this opaque purplish-red wine offers dominating scents of anis and blackberry. Enjoy savouring this red’s low acidity and coated tannins. The fat mouth boasts ripe black fruit and pepper flavours before ending in a rather sustained finale. Food Pairing: Marinated and grilled steak, emu medallion with red fruit sauce |
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France Bordeaux
Château Haut-Mouleyre, Bordeaux AOC White Wine, 750 ML (10889069) Regular price: $27.10 This white wine presents a rather intense golden-yellow colour. Its nose opens on citrus notes, followed by vegetal aromas. Fall for this wine’s pleasing freshness and ample mouth marked by flavours of grapefruit and fresh cut herbs. Its texture ends in a fairly persistent finale. Food Pairing: Asparagus with goat cheese gratin, Chilean sea bass with fresh herbs |
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France Bordeaux
Château Tournefeuille, Lalande de Pomerol AOC Red Wine, 750 ML (10699169) Regular price: $28.60 Presenting a dark ruby wine with a nose emanating notes of cassis, cedar and cocoa. Floral aromas are also featured. Possessing a pleasing freshness and fleshy tannins, it features flavours of plum, wood and humid dirt in an ample texture ending in a rather sustained finale. Food Pairing: 7-hour leg of lamb, duck confit |
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France Bourgogne
Patrice Rion Pinot Noir, Bourgogne AOC Red Wine, 750 ML (10220736) Regular price: $29.75 Rather intense ruby colour and fine nose featuring cherry, tobacco and marjoram aromas. Subtle woody and floral nose complete the aromatics. Savour this red’s refreshing acidity and silky tannins, which can be perceived in a supple mouth that lasts in a persistent ending. Food Pairing: Roasted chicken with fine herbs, deli meets and soft cheeses |
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France Vallée de la Loire
Kilikanoon Brut, Vouvray AOC Sparkling wine, 750 ML (10970094) Regular price: $26.35 Under the quite intense golden-yellow colour, this sparkling wine offers a delicate nose of mushroom, green apple and acacia honey notes. Scents of spices and toast top off the aromatics. The ample mouth features fine and slightly persistent bubbles, and ends in a rather sustained finale. Food Pairing: Smoked salmon and caviar served on blinis, goat cheese crostinis |
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France
Domaine Gallety, Côtes du Vivarais AOC Red Wine, 750 ML (00918615) Regular price: $27.35 Rather intense cherry colour and quite powerful nose opening on fresh ground pepper and cherry notes. Savour this ample red’s pleasing freshness and fleshy tannins. Before ending in a rather sustained finish, the mouth echoes the nose with flavours of pepper and ripe red fruits. Food Pairing: Pork fillet with black olive tapenade, mustard rabbit |
Here’s another strong red wine with pepper and red fruit accents:
United States California Qupé Central Coast, Syrah Red Wine, 750 ML (00866335) Regular price: $26.80 Strong nose of pepper and raspberry notes, followed by vanilla scents. Almost fat texture featuring flavours of fresh ground pepper and red berries. Food Pairing: Szechuan pepper-duck, wellington beef fillet |
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Italy Tuscany
Carpineto Riserva, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Red Wine, 750 ML (10319912) Regular price: $32.75 Complex nose opening on anis, incense, cigar box and leather aromas. Notes of plum are also featured. Discover a quite intense ruby-red wine that offers a pleasant freshness, silky tannins and flavours of soft spices that echo the nose. The ample texture fades in a fairly sustained ending. Food Pairing: Roast beef with game sauce, duck leg Basquaise |
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New Zealand North Island
Gimblett Gravels Hawkes Bay, Merlot Red Wine, 750 ML (10383738) Regular price: $28.45 Discover this rather intense purplish-red wine with a nose opening on scents of candied cherry, vanilla and wood. Charmingly fresh and possessing supple tannins, it expresses flavours of soft spices and red berries, which echo the nose. Its ample mouthfeel lasts into a fairly sustained ending. Food Pairing: Veal scallop Parmigianino, soft cheeses with washed rinds |
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Portugal
Evel Grande Reserva, Douro DOC Red Wine, 750 ML (10760484) Regular price: $31.75 The nose of this opaque purplish-red wine is rather strong and features notes of cassis, blackberry and vanilla. Enjoy its pleasing freshness, fleshy tannins and flavours of anis, vanilla and ripe black fruits, which echo the nose. It also reveals an almost fat texture that fades in a quite sustained finish. Food Pairing: Veal chops in port sauce, grilled duck magret |
Fan of opulent and jammy reds with notes of vanilla and black fruits? This one’s also for you:
Australia Filsell Grant Burge Barossa, Shiraz Red Wine, 750 ML (11152931) Regular price: $29.60 Dominant scents of blackberry jam, vanilla, pepper and eucalyptus. It offers flavours of black berry jam and fresh ground pepper in an ample texture. Food Pairing: Beef strip loin with pepper sauce, mustard and currant leg of lamb |
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Spain La Rioja
Marqués de Murrieta Ygay Reserva, Rioja Red Wine, 750 ML (10823166) Regular price: $28.50 This Spanish red features a quite intense cherry colour and a strong nose releasing undergrowth, humid dirt, wood and vanilla aromas. Scents off currant top off the aromatics. The ample mouth echoes the nose with flavours of soft spices and dried fruit, and offers a pleasing freshness along with fleshy tannins. Its texture fades in a quite persistent ending. Food Pairing: Beef bourguignon, braised lamb shank with boletus |
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United States California
Clos du Bois Sonoma Reserve, Pinot Noir Red Wine, 750 ML (10354769) Regular price: $28.70 Here’s a fairly deep orangy-red wine that presents an exuberant nose of candied cherry and cooked fruits, followed by scents of cigar box. The mouth, pleasingly fresh with fleshy tannins, serves flavours of morello cherry jam and toast in an ample texture that lasts in a long ending. Food Pairing: Sun dried tomato-pork chops, saltimbocca chicken suprêmes |
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United States California
Gloria Ferrer Brut Sonoma Sparkling wine, 750 ML (10839184) Regular price: $25.85 Here’s a wine with fine and persistent bubbles, with a strong nose made up of almond, white fruit and praline notes, followed by faint floral aromas. Enjoy this rather intense golden-yellow sparkling wine’s liveliness and flavours of grilled almond and lemon. It reveals an ample mouth that lasts in a quite sustained ending. Food Pairing: Gruyere cheese puffs, codfish fritters |
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United States California
Le Cigare Volant Bonny Doon Red Wine, 750 ML (10253386) Regular price: $37.00 Quite intense ruby-red in colour, this wine serves up a strong nose with dominant notes of cherries in eau-de-vie, plum and garigue. Fall for this charmingly refreshing red offering fleshy tannins and flavours of dried fruits and spices, which echo the nose. It also reveals an ample mouth that ends in a sustained finish. Food Pairing: Plum-stuffed pork fillets, veal roast in madeira sauce |
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