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Lighea ’17 un vino fresco , profumatissimo di fiori e frutti esotici, dolce e aromatico in bocca ma ben sostenuto da una freschissima acidità

Betört mit komplexen Blüten-, Honing- und Nussaromen, geschmeidigem Bau und einem verführeisch langen Dörrobosfinale.

Score: 91/100 – Issue Jul 31, 2018

Tasting Note: A harmonious, medium- to full-bodied red, offering expressive flavors of ripe black currant and herbed olive, with hints of ground espresso and woodsy spice structured by grippy yet well-meshed, tannins. Cabernet Sauvignon, Nero d’Avola and Syrah. Drink now through 2028.

Terre Siciliane Mille e Una Notte 2014;

Score: 91/100

Tasting Note: An expressive red that offers a lovely skein of fragrant spice and graphite flavors unraveling through the baked plum, fig cake, cured tobacco and tarry smoke notes. This is lightly mouthwatering throughout, medium- to full-bodied, with plush tannins firming the finish. Nero d’Avola, Petite Verdot and Syrah. Drink now through 2026.

Chardonnay Contessa Entellina Chiarandà 2016

Score: 91/100 – Issue Sep 30, 2018; Tasting Note: This harmonious, medium-bodied white is fresh and focused, with well-knit flavors of tangy Honeycrisp apple, Meyer lemon peel and pastry. Offers a lingering finish of spice and graphite. Drink now through 2026.

Score: 93/100 – Issue Jul 31, 2018; Tasting Note: Glazed apricot and nectarine fruit notes leap from the glass of this delightful dessert wine, accented by aromatic accents of ground cardamom, honeycomb and praline. This is hard to stop sipping, as it melts in your mouth and leaves a mouthwatering impression on the finish. Drink now through 2030.

Forest floor, scorched earth, grilled herb and oak-driven spice aromas come to the forefront along with mature dark-skinned berry. The juicy medium-bodied palate delivers cassis, mature plum, toast and star anise framed in taut fine-grained tannins.

Underbrush, Mediterranean scrub, toast and exotic spice aromas leap from the glass. The concentrated, velvety palate doles out blackberry jam, ripe raspberry, vanilla and licorice, while tightly knit, fine-grained tannins provide structure.

Donnafugata Ben Ryé, Passito di Pantelleria 2015 GOLD
Delicious and complex,’ began team leader Annette Scarfe MW as this took its rightful place on the Gold podium, further finding ‘delicious apricot notes, with an amazing freshness and acidity’, and recommending it as a good match for ricotta cheese. For Richard Cavagin-Carey of The Harwood Arms, this was ‘big and unctuous on the palate, with ripe mango notes’, while Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason described a ‘tropical, rich and rounded wine, with pineapple and a herbal note’.

Donnafugata Bell’Assai, Frappato di Vittoria 2016 GOLD
‘A vibrant, pleasant summer wine,’ said an impressed Janusz Pawel Sasiadek of Bottles & Battles as this took a well-deserved Gold medal, finding ‘lovely fresh fruits and good acidity’. Michael Moore of The London Cookhouse identified ‘lavender perfume and a splash of cinnamon towards the finish’, and Tate Catering’s Hamish Anderson thought it was ‘hugely drinkable’, praising its ‘pretty, fragrant nose with cherries and wild flowers, and an elegant, pure palate with more cherries, wild herbs, and the grip of some fresh tannin’.