New World Icons Gift Box

A three bottle selection from the New World.

2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chateau Ste Michelle, Columbia Valley, Washington
Chateau Ste Michelle is Washington's oldest winery. This wine is perfectly smooth, there are blackcurrants, blackberries and vanilla on the nose and similar black fruits on the palate, subtle vanilla and cedar.

2021 Cepas Single Vineyard Malbec, Penedo Borges, Mendoza
Kicks off with expressive, minty blackberry fruit on the nose with notes of roasted coffee and perhaps a sizzling, smoky barbecue. Strikingly fresh and pure for a Malbec, with warm, sweetish bramble fruit, savoury spice and soft ripe tannins. Really characterful and well-balanced.

2011 Pinot Noir, La Crema, Anderson Valley, Mendocino
Upon pouring the wine displays the signature, delicate, pale-ruby colour which many will identify as fine pinot noir. There's a lovely note of maturity on the nose manifesting itself as aromas of leather, tea leaf and wood-smoke wrapped around a core of red berry fruit. The palate offers a swathe of delicate, sweet blackberry, with a hint of blueberry and spice, the fruit is punctuated by a notes of sweet oak which rounds off the finish. The tannins are fine, perfectly integrated and sit on the mid-palate allowing the a medley, akin to a summer fruit compote, laced with elegant, exotic spice to hang on the palate for an obscene amount of time. Perfectly mature and ready to deliver much drinking pleasure, but with the structure and complexity to develop further in the bottle, I have no doubt that those gamey, earthy nuances that lovers of pinot noir crave will emerge in the coming years but it's just so pleasurable as-is that I really don't see it lasting that long.