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Finca Decero Malbec 2015 proudly stands as Wine #34 in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2017. Rated 91 Points by WS and also noted as a “Smart Buy”, this wine is described as “an elegant style, with a core of vibrant cherry, plum and currant flavors that are supported by fresh acidity. This is supple mid palate, with a finish that lingers with dried ginger and white pepper details.”

The flagship cuvée is the 2014 Amano, comprised of 66% Malbec, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Petit Verdot and Tannat, all from the Remolinos Vineyard and aged in new French oak. It has classic Malbec blue fruits as well as terrific minerality, notes of violets and peppery herbs, full-bodied richness, and a pure, elegant, incredibly balanced profile. This tour de force in Argentina Malbec should be snatched up by readers. It can be drunk today or cellaring for 7-8 years.

“Opaque ruby. Lively and focused on the nose, displaying fresh cherry, blackberry and floral scents and deeper suggestions of pipe tobacco, olive and licorice. Juicy cherry and dark berry and salty olive paste flavors show very good delineation, and a hint of candied flowers emerges on the back half. Fine-grained tannins build slowly on an impressively long, sweet finish that leaves a suggestion of cherry cola behind.” 

“A terrific value is the 2015 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a little gem of a wine based on Montepulciano brought up all in stainless. Loaded with notions of rich cherry and blackberry fruit, leafy herbs, and tobacco, it’s medium-bodied, textured, fruit forward, and incredibly delicious.”

“Cranberries, raspberries, elderberries and fresh herbs dominate on the nose here. Medium to full body, firm tannins and a fresh finish. Drink now.”

The Washington Post’s wine columnist, Dave McIntyre, included E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rosé 2017 in his latest column as a great value wine. He elaborated that Guigal is “perhaps the most famous producer in the northern Rhone Valley, and its rosé is a perennial favorite.” Additionally, he noted the wine “offers great juicy fruit and refreshing acidity.”

Read the full article here.

The E. Guigal 2015 Saint-Joseph Rouge was featured in Brian Freedman’s Forbes.com column “Wines of The Week: Syrah And Viognier For The Summer,” just in time to inspire our weekend wine purchases! Brian selected the Saint-Joseph Rouge from E. Guigal as the red Wine of the Week, which he called “one of the most instantly recognizable names of the Rhone Valley.” He described the Saint-Joseph as having “generous fruit complicated by the quintessentially savory notes of floral peppercorn and serious minerality.” In addition, Brian noted that the wine “shows an appealing mix of cherry, plum, fig cake, and star anise, all of it cut through with mouthwatering acidity that allows the subtly smoky finish to linger.”

Read the full story here.

Writer Russ Winton included the wine he enjoyed over July 4th weekend with his Modesto Bee readers. Within Russ’ Wine List column, he shares that the 2015 E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rouge  “is aged two years and a great value at $15. A light chill made it perfect for the July 4 barbecue.”

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Super flyovers of Cote-Rotie and a dive into the Guigal cellar. If you didn’t know how steep the vineyards of Cote-Rotie were before – and how backbreaking the work to harvest – this video certainly illustrates the point.  As the saying goes, on the flats of Bordeaux 1 person can cover 250 acres through mechanization.  In Burgundy, where work must all be done by hand because of vineyard spacing, 1 person can cover 12 acres.  In the Northern Rhone, everything has to be done by hand AND the slopes are so steep, 1 person can work 5 acres.