Domaine Tariquet<br />VSOP<br />Grape variety(ies) :<br />Ugni-blanc 60% Baco 40%.<br />Characteristics :<br />The youngest of the eaux-de-vie making up this blend of typical Bas-Armagnac grape varieties has been aged in our cellars in oak barrels for a minimum of 7 years.<br />a minimum of 7 years<br />Tasting notes :<br />Very Superior Old Pale - VSOP<br />Beautiful amber colour. Powerful nose of prunes, lots of richness and concentration, warm bread aroma with a touch of toast and gingerbread. On aeration, superb aromas of<br />baker's oven, rancio and candied fruit appear. The palate is smooth, round, almost excessive, no sensation of alcohol, the wood is there: beautiful and vanilla. The finish is<br />full-bodied<br />with a return of macerated stone fruits.<br /><br />The cigar alliance<br />by Yves Belaubre<br /><br />Tariquet VSOP Flor de Copán Línea Puros, Churchill<br />Perhaps the most woody of Tariquet's Bas Armagnac, the VSOP offers a first fiery but not aggressive nose of toasted oak, orange jam, and slightly vanilla prune.<br />vanilla. On aeration, deep scents of rancio, pear skin and toast enchant. The delicacy of the toasting of the oak woods in which<br />Tariquet eaux de vie age and embellish in patience, is superbly translated by this woody harmony which marks the mouth with a slightly resinous and vanilla<br />and vanilla flavour. On the elegantly warm finish, the woody sensations become more toasted, almost bitter almond, on a background of honeyed resin that<br />The length of the palate unfolds, awakening greedy gingerbread sensations.<br /><br />Created in 2003, Flor de Copan's Linea Puros range now includes<br />four vitolas, all made from 100% Honduran tobacco. From the ancient Mayan region of Copan (northern Honduras), famous for its light, smooth and gently<br />The Linea Puros offers a spicy and roasted interpretation of the ancient Maya region of Copan (northern Honduras), famous for its light, smooth and slightly liquorice<br />tobaccos. The Churchill has a velvety, even brioche-like smoke, with roasted and woody aromas and beautiful nuances of bark, moss and nuts, enhanced by hints of nutmeg<br />and white pepper and more acidic touches of cardamom.<br /><br />The meeting of the VSOP and the Churchill Linea Puros also offers lovers a superb variation in taste around the woody expression - soft forest bitterness - and similar<br />almost brioche-like textures. The intense smoke, quite dense but not very fatty, awakens<br />The intense smoke, fairly dense but not very fatty, awakens honeyed impressions at the attack of the Tariquet, the acidulous spices (cardamom, nutmeg) of the smoke<br />bouncing off the fruity bitterness (orange peel) of the Armagnac.<br />of the Armagnac.<br />As the brandy rises, the Linea Puros smoke makes its spices (nutmeg, cardamom) resonate on the finely wooded vivacity of the Tariquet before melting on the long palate<br />into the tones of roasted bark, roasted nuts and liquorice (gingerbread) that characterise this alliance.<br />From resinous honey to walnut, from vanilla woodiness to cardamom, from roasted bark to liquorice, the accord carries the spicy flag of the forests. The bittersweet notes on<br />the finish are tinged with gingerbread smoke, and caramelised walnut the fruity wood of this<br />Traditional blended Armagnac, aged for 8 years.<br />To the Mousse, gingerbread, raw walnut. Toasted woody start, nuts, grey and white pepper. Slightly salty smoke, acidic touch not greasy, light roasted wood with nutmeg<br />spice and rising cardamom note, the churchill echoes its spices on the palate marked by more intensely roasted wood and reveals roasted nut flavours in the rancio of the<br />brandy.<br />On the attack, the smoke goes into the roasted nuts, exalting the woodiness of the VSOP.<br />On the long finish, the spices are enhanced (almost cardamom on the Linea, cinnamon and white pepper on the Larc).<br />The smoke enhances the gingerbread nuances of the VSOP.<br />The acidity of the smoke rebounds in the orange peel side of the VSOP.<br />The bitterness is enhanced on the finish (bitter almond and liquorice): a delicate roasted woody fusion.<br />

<br />Panarea Island Gin<br />44°<br /><br />Features<br />Panarea Gin is defined as a Botanical Gin and is distilled according to a secret recipe using various ingredients including grain alcohol, juniper &amp; lemon distillate, reinforced<br />by a further concentrated juniper distillate and enriched in turn by the presence of other botanicals including coriander. The product is characterised by the addition of natural<br />fruity aromatic notes and the absence of artificial flavourings. Finally, this Gin differs from the classic London Dry Gin because of its unique taste of great balance and<br />smoothness.<br /><br />Tasting notes:<br />Crystal clear white colour with distinctive and persistent aromas with distinct notes of juniper, citrus and myrtle. On the palate it is appreciated for its intense flavour, round<br />and great structure.<br />

Bottle: 0.75 l<br />Characteristics<br />Carte Blanche is a champagne with a very traditional style due to its higher dosage, called 'demi-sec'. This style of wine-making was very popular and appreciated at the<br />end of the 19th century, particularly in certain northern European countries. Carte Blanche is therefore made from Brut Premier, to which more sugar is added at the time of<br />disgorging. The dosage gives the wine a rich, creamy and ample structure, contrasting with its freshness.<br />Grape varieties:<br />40% Pinot Noir<br />40% Chardonnay (of which 20% vinified in wood)<br />20% Meunier<br />Vinification:<br />Carte Blanche benefits from 3 years' cellar ageing, to which a 6-month rest period is added after disgorgement to perfect its maturity.<br />The dosage is 38 g/l.<br />It carries out a partial malolactic fermentation.<br />Tasting notes:<br />Carte Blanche reveals a range of sweet, ripe fruits (baked apple), intense floral notes (broom) and hints of warm, sugary almonds reminiscent of almond cream. The high<br />dosage is well balanced by both the wine's freshness and the long duration of disgorgement.<br />

BRUT PREMIER<br />Characteristics<br />Always on the borderline between aperitif wine and wine for the whole meal, Brut Premier asserts its fresh style: direct, precise and juicy at the same time.<br /><br />Brut Premier is produced each year, seeking the same balance between freshness and pleasure: it is both elegant and rich, youthful and mature, with a very particular<br />structure, on the borderline between an aperitif wine and a wine for the whole meal. Every year it is assembled and recreated with patience, starting from the strength of the<br />last vintage (the base), which must be softened, patinated and tamed with care so as never to lose its peculiarities! It is the reserve wines, aged for individual parcels for up<br />to 10 years in French oak barrels, that give Brut Premier its unmistakable character. It is a meticulous work, involving 200 to 300 different lots: the wines, the vines, the crus,<br />the vintages blend in a harmonious and delicious way so that everything changes but remains the same!<br />Grape varieties:<br />40% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay of which 10% vinified in wood (oak barrels) and 20% Meunier.<br />Vinification:<br />Brut Premier benefits from an average of 3 years of ageing in the cellar, to which is added a rest period of 6 months after disgorging, to perfect its maturity.<br />The dosage is 9 g/l.<br />Tasting notes:<br />A bright yellow wine with golden hues and a very dynamic effervescence. The nose has aromas of candied citrus fruits (lemon) with notes of peel, acidulous, combined with<br />the sweetness of toasted hazelnut, acacia flowers in full bloom. The palate is rich, fluid, round and fresh. The attack is centred on juicy, direct, dense fruit, pure but<br />characterised by sweetness, prolonged by a savoury freshness that gives it a remarkable mineral precision, an elegance without excess. The sensation is delicate, fluid,<br />consistent and with a particular immediacy!<br />

Grappa FELDMARSCHALL VON FENNER Müller Thurgau<br /><br />South Tyrol DOC<br /><br />Description:<br /><br />This grappa is distilled from the best marcs of the Müller Thurgau 'Feldmarschall von Fenner'. The diverse aroma spectrum of this grape is reflected in the bouquet.<br />Unobtrusive despite its high alcohol content, this grappa captivates with a very delicate and varietal-typical bouquet as well as with a smooth body.<br /><br />Alcohol: 42.5% vol.<br />

2015<br />Compared to a rather peculiar 2014, 2015 turned out to be an almost textbook vintage. After a rainy and mild winter with only a few days of sub-zero temperatures, budding<br />took place on time during the first days of April. The spring was dry and sunny, providing ideal conditions for regular vegetative growth, culminating in rapid and complete<br />flowering at the end of May. From June onwards, water stress gradually became evident. July will be remembered as a particularly hot and dry month, with maximum<br />temperatures above 30°C every day of the month. The heat, combined with the lack of rainfall, led us to fear that ripening would come to a standstill and that the harvest<br />would have to be brought forward. Fortunately, heavy rains fell around 10 August, which not only unblocked the ripening process but also brought much cooler temperatures<br />during the final ripening phase. This cool but sunny weather continued throughout the harvest, allowing us to pick the grapes with greater ease, choosing the ideal moment<br />to pick the various blocks of the vineyard, resulting in a fresh and lively aromatic quality with a perfect degree of phenolic ripeness together with abundant but soft and silky<br />tannins. The harvest began on 29 August with the youngest vines and ended on 16 September with the last portions of 'Masseto Centrale'.<br />TASTING NOTES: The regularity of the vintage, together with the ideal temperatures during the harvest, are reflected in a classic Masseto, with a perfect balance between<br />mature and complex aromatic expression of great freshness and a rare quality of broad, silky and soft tannins. Dark and intense in colour and rich in aromas with notes of<br />fully ripe red fruits and spices, balsamic and cocoa. In the mouth it becomes sensual and rich, with great density and ample and perfectly soft tannins. The fruity notes are<br />underlined by the subtle presence of oak, ending in a fresh and vivid finish with pronounced hints of cocoa.<br />

ORNELLAIA 2013 'L'ELEGANZA' - BOLGHERI DOC SUPERIORE<br />The desire to express the exceptional qualities of the estate has been at the heart of Ornellaia's philosophy from the very beginning. Ornellaia is a cuvée of Cabernet<br />Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, a faithful expression of a unique terroir that has always been in harmony with nature.<br /><br />TASTING NOTES FROM THE ENOLOGIST 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 7% Petit Verdot 'What seemed to be a disadvantage for the 2013<br />vintage - a late bud break and late flowering - turned out to be a great advantage thanks to a textbook summer and month of harvest, with cool temperatures but mostly<br />sunny weather. This led to a slow but complete ripening with great balance and fascinating aromatic quality, what we like to call 'Elegance'. Deep and dense in colour,<br />Ornellaia 2013 presents itself on the nose with a splendid aromatic complexity that is built around a bright and clear fruitiness, underlined by refined spicy and balsamic<br />notes. The palate develops with vibrant, complex fruit framed by a dense, slender structure with tannins that achieve a rare balance between firmness and flesh, concluding<br />with a long, balanced, fresh finish.' Axel Heinz - May 2015<br /><br />THE CLIMATE OF 2013 After the dry 2012, the winter of 2013 was characterised by mild but very rainy weather, which caused a delay in budding of a good 15 days. The<br />cold and rainy weather also led to an irregular and very long flowering period - two weeks later than average - which reduced production and caused uneven cluster<br />development. Fortunately, the summer, which arrived on time at the end of June, was perfect, dry and sunny, but not without some peaks of intense heat in July and August.<br />In the end, the vegetative delay was beneficial because it moved the ripening to after the hottest period. The mid-August thunderstorms significantly lowered temperatures -<br />especially at night - becoming favourable for aromatic expression, but forcing us to harvest later than average, starting on 9 September and ending on 14 October, with<br />mostly sunny weather without excessive heat.<br /><br />WINE-MAKING AND REFINING The grapes were hand-picked into 15 kg crates and selected on a double sorting table before and after destemming and then softly<br />crushed. Each variety and each parcel was vinified separately. Alcoholic fermentation took place in stainless steel vats at temperatures between 26-30°C for a week,<br />followed by maceration for a total of approximately 10-15 days. Malolactic fermentation took place mainly in oak barriques (70% new and 30% second passage). The wine<br />remained in barriques in the Ornellaia cellars at a controlled temperature for a period of about 18 months. After the first 12 months it was blended and then reintroduced into<br />the barriques where it spent a further 6 months. The wine remained in the bottle for a further 12 months before release.<br />

<br />Eligo of Ornellaia<br />Grappa Riserva<br /><br />Eligo dell'Ornellaia Grappa Riserva is an expression of Ornellaia's philosophy that a rigorous process of grape selection in the vineyard and at every stage of production is<br />fundamental to creating the best possible quality.<br /><br />With the arrival of autumn, after the Ornellaia wines have been transferred to French oak barrels for ageing, the marc is entrusted to an artisanal distillery in the heart of the<br />Tuscan countryside. Here the master distiller, armed with his expertise, extracts the delicate aromatic heart from the skins of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc<br />and Petit Verdot.<br /><br />After patient distillation in small copper stills, the grappa is aged for at least three years - twice as long as the time required to obtain a Grappa Riserva - in Ornellaia's own<br />barrels.<br /><br />It is then blended with the reserves from previous years to obtain greater breadth and character. To guarantee its craftsmanship, the grappa is distilled, blended and bottled<br />in the same distillery. With its aromas, silky texture and beautiful golden hues, Eligo dell'Ornellaia Grappa Riserva is distinguished by its unique origin and style, inspired by<br />nature and perfected by man.<br />

It is a lively brut, rich in fragrance, which favours smoothness and an accessible sensory language, a balanced and versatile style.<br /><br />In the glass, it has a straw-yellow colour with greenish reflections, animated by a fine and persistent perlage. The nose is fresh, with floral notes of lime, nuances of citrus,<br />white peach and green pepper. The taste is taut and crisp, fresh and vertical, savoury, refined and with a very pleasant persistent finish.<br /><br />Grapes Chardonnay 80%, Pinot Noir 10%, Pinot Blanc 10%.<br />Origin Mix of pedigree units from Franciacorta<br />Training systems Guyot - Casarsa<br />Planting density 3000 - 5000 vines/ha<br />Yield 100 quintals/ha<br />Yield of wine 65% equal to 65 hl/ha<br />Average age of vines 20 years<br />Harvest period End of August, beginning of September<br />Vinification Soft pressing Cold static decantation Inoculation with selected yeasts Fermentation of 20 days in stainless steel Malolactic fermentation carried out partially<br />First Maturation 7 months, part in steel and part in barriques<br />Cold static stabilisation Bottling (draught) May<br />Maturation on the lees 20 to 26 months<br />Disgorgement From December<br />Maturation after disgorgement 3 to 4 months<br />Dosage 6 g/l<br />

A new cuvée, a new interpretation of Franciacorta. Alma Non Dosato represents the contemporary and vibrant interpretation of Bellavista's great vigne-to. It is made from<br />predominantly chardonnay and pinot noir grapes. In the cellar it is blended from numerous selections from the harvest and some 'reserve' wines from previous years, with a<br />blend that chooses the most dynamic and reactive part of the wine's heritage. The colour of the wine is straw yellow with green reflections, the perlage fine and continuous.<br />The aromas are fresh and deep, ranging from fresh flowers to white fruit, while the taste is savoury, fresh and sharp, complex and with a long, luminous finish. A wine with<br />backbone, class and elegance.<br /><br />FRANCIACORTA DOCGRANDE CUVÉE ALMA NON DOSATO<br />Grapes Chardonnay 90%, Pinot Noir 10%.<br />Training system Guyot<br />Planting density 5000 vines/ha<br />Yield 100 q.li/ha<br />Average age of vines 25 years<br />Harvest period End of August, beginning of September<br />Ageing 15% pièces, 85% inox<br />Dosage 0 g/l<br />Acidity 6.4<br />

Commentary:<br />The estate's flagship wine, rooted in its thousand-year history. A classic Bordeaux blend of aristocratic elegance and extraordinary longevity.<br />Grape varieties<br />60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Carmenère, 10% Merlot<br />Vinification<br />Spontaneous fermentation in small cement tanks for about 15/18 days with several daily pump-overs and délestage.<br />Ageing<br />24 months in French oak barriques of first, second and third passage.<br />Ageing time<br />30 years and more.<br />

Commentary:<br />Symbolic wine of the estate, rooted in its millennial history. A classic Bordeaux blend of aristocratic elegance and extraordinary longevity.<br />Grape varieties<br />60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Carmenère, 10% Merlot<br />Vinification<br />Spontaneous fermentation in small cement tanks for about 15/18 days with daily pumping over and délestage.<br />Ageing<br />24 months in French oak barriques of first, second and third passage.<br />Ageing time<br />30 years and more.<br />