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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending	Favorite
Bodegas Borsao - Wine Enthusiast	Berola	2016	90	Nov-2020
Review “Ripe blackberry and black cherry aromas come with Christmas spice, fennel seed and nutmeg accents. This Garnacha-based red blend is big and sappy, as should be expected from Campo de Borja. Mildly woody black fruit flavors are roasted and warm, while this delivers on a spicy finish.” (Best Buy)
Lapostolle - Wine & Spirits	Cuvée Alexandre Carmenere	2016	92	Oct-2020
Review “Lapostolle’s vineyards are tucked into a south-facing amphitheater against the hills of Apalta, with the oldest vines, dating to 1920, on the valley floor. This is a blend of 85 percent carmenère with 15 percent cabernet sauvignon, their fruit combining in ripe black fig notes and creamy-rich tannins. The oak is integrated and seems to power the fruit through a long finish, suggesting this will age with grace.”
Clos Apalta - Wine & Spirits	Clos Apalta	2016	93	Oct-2020
Review “Michel Rolland developed this wine for the Marnier-Lapostolle family at its estate in Apalta, where the old vines on the valley floor date to the 1920s, and younger vines climb the horseshoe-shaped hills. Now headed up by winemaker Jacques Begarie, the team began harvest in 2016 with merlot on March 10 (17 percent of the blend), continuing with cabernet sauvignon on March 18 (19 percent) and starting in on carmenère on April 12 (accounting for 64 percent of the blend). Those varieties come together in a powerful wine with a deep crimson color and rich lavender scents layered over tart plum flavors. The fine tannins show incipient complexity in their mineral length of savor. Cellar this for ten years or more.”
Tournon by M. Chapoutier - Wine & Spirits	Lady's Lane Vineyard	2016	93	Oct-2020
Review “From the Chapoutier family’s project in Victoria, this wine grows at their vineyard in Heathcote, in Cambrian soils. It’s a bold, gamey wine with earthy tannins lasting through the spicy black-cherry-skin flavors. And there are floral notes of fruit just coming into ripeness. The tannins open up with air, yielding a beautiful texture as the earthiness gentles and persists.” (Best Buy)
Campbells - Wine & Spirits	Limited Release Rutherglen Durif	2016	91	Oct-2020
Review “Farming eight acres of durif planted in iron-rich loam, Malcolm and Colin Campbell work this often stubbornly tannic variety to produce a wine that’s accessible when young, and this 2016 is markedly elegant, its tannic intensity apparent, but not completely blunting the equally potent black-cherry fruit. Spicy and powerful rather than complex, this could take on slow braised short ribs, or take a long rest in the cellar.” (Best Buy)
Vasse Felix - Wine & Spirits	Vasse Felix Tom Cullity	2016	95	Oct-2020
Review “This wine is dedicated to the founder of Vasse Felix, one of the pioneering growers in Margaret River; the cabernet sauvignon and malbec vines Virginia Willcock farms for this wine are descendants of the vines Tom Cullity planted at his vineyard in 1968. Ocean currents meet red and black currants in this smooth and luscious blend, engaging for its voluptuous texture as well as its splash of colorful fruit. There’s an undertow taking you deeper into red cherry and pomegranate, leaving you in the midst of succulent tannins, receding slowly into addictive freshness that immediately brings you back for more. Or so it did for me. This is an Aussie cabernet with elegance, one with decades of life ahead.”
TerraNoble - Food and Wine Chickie	CA1 Andes	2016		Sep-2020
Review “Cherry red in the glass. Ripe red fruit with minty notes on the nose. Cherry and red fruit on the palate with oaky notes. Medium/full-bodied, round and balanced tannins with a silky texture and a long finish. Pair with mushroom risotto or cassoulet.”
Catena Zapata - Jamessuckling.com	Nicolás Catena Zapata	2016	95	Sep-2020
Review “This a rich and flavorful red, showing blackcurrants and tobacco. Full-bodied, soft and fruity with bright and spicy, oyster-shell and fresh-herb character. Serious cabernet blend.”
Yalumba - Jamessuckling.com	Yalumba Hand Picked Shiraz Viognier	2016	94	Sep-2020
Review “This has attractive spice and complex, fragrant aromas with a stony edge, as well as violets and blueberries. The palate has a delicious core of fresh dark and red berries with a chocolate edge and a very polished tannin texture. Good freshness at the finish, too, with long, blueberry and blackberry flavors.”
Yalumba - Jamessuckling.com	Yalumba Steeple Vineyard Shiraz	2016	95	Sep-2020
Review “A biodynamically farmed plot in Light Pass, planted in 1919. This has very attractive fruit presence of purple-berry, plum and blackberry aromas, as well as fresh, toasty oak spice and chocolate. The palate has a smooth red-fruit core with a very soft, supple and fleshy delivery of fine, long and supple tannin. Really pure and expressive.”

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