page 1 Pecharmant Chateau Champarel 2009 Pécharmant is a favoured district of Bergerac with its own appellation. From a ripe and famous vintage, this has finesse and charm. Product Code FC22451 Dominant Grape Cabernet Merlot Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2017 Origin SW France (excl. Bordeaux) Alcohol Level 14.0% Vintage 2009 Price No longer for sale Pecharmant Chateau Champarel 2009 Pécharmant is a favoured district of Bergerac with its own appellation. From a ripe and famous vintage, this has finesse and charm. Product Code FC22451 Dominant Grape Cabernet Merlot Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2017 Origin SW France (excl. Bordeaux) Alcohol Level 14.0% Vintage 2009 Price No longer for sale Syrah, Domaine Courbis, Ardèche, 2011 Lovely, ripe-tasting syrah, soft, supple and fruity. Made from younger vines in Saint Joseph and Cornas. Drink this year and next. Product Code RH31921 Dominant Grape Syrah/Shiraz Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2014 Origin RHONE - Northern Rhone Alcohol Level 13.0% Vintage 2011 Price No longer for sale
page 2 Catena Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection for The Wine Society, 2009 Once again, Society buyer Toby Morrhall was allowed to select a vat of cedary cabernet sauvignon from Catena's superb high-altitude 1,450m Adrianna vineyard, to which a little cabernet franc and malbec were added for extra complexity. Aged for 16 months in French oak coopered by Taransaud, 50% of which was new. The resultant wine was voted a 2013 Wine Champion at our annual blind-tasting competition to find the best of The Society's range for drinking now. Product Code AR2521 Dominant Grape Cabernet Sauvignon Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2011 to 2017 Origin Argentina Alcohol Level 13.5% Vintage 2009 Price No longer for sale Calvi Rouge, Cuvée Fiume Seccu Domaine Alzipratu, 2010 Full, spirited red, rich in flavour and herby with a touch of spice. Made from 40% each of nielluccio and sciaccarello with the rest grenache and syrah. Product Code FC23291 Dominant Grape Sangiovese Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2015 Origin Provence / Massif / Corsica Alcohol Level 13.5% Corse-Calvi, Clos Culombu, Cuvée Prestige, 2011 Full-flavoured, spicy red from Clos Culombu. Try with a Moroccan tagine. Product Code FC22851 Dominant Grape Sangiovese Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2015 Origin Provence / Massif / Corsica Alcohol Level 14.0% Vintage 2011 Price No longer for sale Producer : Clos Culombu (Etienne Suzzoni) - See next page.
page 3 Producer : Clos Culombu (Etienne Suzzoni) The Balagne, a fruitful stretch of the north-west coast, known as the Garden of Corsica, is home to one of the island s oldest, driest and most serious appellations, Vin de Corse-Calvi. Vines have been grown here since the 13th century, and though current acreage is now less than half of its original 700 hectares, its reputation is high. Rosé and red wines form the lion s share of production, with whites accounting for a meagre 12%. Etienne Suzzoni at Clos Culombu, in the communes of Montegrosso and Lumio, is one of the real characters among Corsica's winemakers. Larger than life in every way, he has championed the cause of fine wine from Corsica, where till now so much of the wine has been produced by under-performing co-operatives. From his 55 hectares he makes fine examples of that Corsican staple, rosé, excellent reds from nielluccio (aka sangiovese in Italy) and sciacarello (a native grape) supported by syrah, grenache and cinsault, and full-flavoured whites from vermentino, which dominates among the island s white varieties. However, before vermentino came to dominate in Corsica, there were other varieties planted and these are slowly being reintroduced, especially by some of the more forward-thinking growers like Etienne. Anyone for riminese, genovese, brustianu, cordivarta, biancu gentile, or cualtacciu? They all find their way into bottles from this estate with one eye on the traditional and one on the innovative.
page 4 Crozes-Hermitage, La Matinière, Ferraton, 2010 A wonderful expression of syrah and of Crozes-Hermitage: black, ripe brambly fruit, full-flavoured but fresh too, a hallmark of the exceptional 2010 vintage. Voted a 2013 Wine Champion at our annual blind-tasting competition to find the best of The Society's range for drinking now. Product Code RH32051 Dominant Grape Syrah/Shiraz Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2012 to 2018 Origin RHONE - Northern Rhone Alcohol Level 13.0% Cahors, Château de Hauterive, 2010 The Filhol family have farmed this part of Viresur Lot for generations and have well-exposed vines on gravel beds above the Lot River. Mostly malbec and a little merlot combine in this lovely, fruity and supple red. Product Code FC24221 Dominant Grape Malbec/Cot Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2013 to 2016 Origin SW France (excl. Bordeaux) Alcohol Level 13.0% Cahors, Château de Hauterive, 2010 The Filhol family have farmed this part of Viresur Lot for generations and have well-exposed vines on gravel beds above the Lot River. Mostly malbec and a little merlot combine in this lovely, fruity and supple red. Product Code FC24221 Dominant Grape Malbec/Cot Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2013 to 2016 Origin SW France (excl. Bordeaux) Alcohol Level 13.0%
page 5 Grant Burge Benchmark Shiraz 2012 Barossa A lovely fruity, plump shiraz which makes for excellent everyday drinking. Product Code AU15881 Dominant Grape Syrah/Shiraz Product Type Red Wine Drink Dates 2013 to 2015 Origin South Australia Alcohol Level 14.0% Style not applicable Closure type Screwcap Vintage 2012 Price No longer for sale Producer : Grant Burge Wines Grant Burge founded his family business in 1988 in the heart of the Barossa Valley when he purchased an already well-established estate. Burge was no novice, having been an experienced industry veteran with other companies before taking on his own venture, and was also the fifth generation of a winemaking family that had originally emigrated to Australia from Wiltshire in 1855. Since the mid-2000s, he and his wife Helen have also welcomed their three children the sixth generation to the team. Burge now has extensive holdings in the rich, red-brown soils of the Barossa valley including some of the finest and oldest shiraz vineyards as well as other sites further afield. From these plots come a number of single vineyard wines, as well as the fruit for his whole range of cuvées, which are predominantly red. His most renowned wine, and one of Barossa s most powerful and long-lived, is Meshach Shiraz, named after Grant s great-great-grandfather and produced from 70-year old vines. Benchmark is a delicious entry-level shiraz made to enjoy when young and vibrant. The Filsell Old Vine Shiraz, from the eponymous vineyard, is an award-winning wine of marvellous concentration from very old vines.
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