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Wine Club Reserve Sample Case

Wine Club Reserve Sample Case
Product: W00041 Mixed Case
Cellared Case Size: 12
Wine Club Reserve Sample Case
If there’s one thing that every Wine Lover loves, it’s a tasting. That’s why we offer the chance to purchase a Berrys’ Wine Club trial case. You get to discover how good these wines really are for the price, without having to commit. You can try either this Reserve Trial Case or the Essential Trial Case; you’ll receive the accompanying tasting notes (and the 15% discount of course), but not the extra Berrys’ Wine Club benefits

Please, note: Only one trial Essential Mixed Case and one trial Essential Reserve Case per customer or household. To receive other Wine Club benefits, including the 15% discount on other Club wines, you need to become a member of the Wine Club. Offer closes 15.10.10.
Pack Contents
Unit Size Qty
2005 Red, drink-or-keep
Ch. Villa Bel-Air, Graves -- Château Villa Bel Air -- France
Cab.Sauvignon Blend, 13% alc.
This is a benchmark Graves, showing both the generosity and the earthy, savoury notes that are so typical of its origins. However, the suave interpretation given by the team from Lynch-Bages gives a modern gloss to Graves’ more robust characteristics, with the result that this is an immediately gratifying wine, front-loaded with bright, fresh red berry fruit. The palate reasserts the sense of place, with a note of graphite mingling with the soft fruit notes. This really is tremendous value for money, pretty much ideal to drink now, but with the substance to still deliver over the next five years.
(Mark Pardoe MW, BBR Wholesale - Tasted at the St Emilion, Pomerol, Graves and Sauternes Cellar Tasting, 03/12/09)

True to its origins in Graves the wine is modern in style, bursting with gorgeous fruit and underpinned by ripe tannins. It shows real complexity on the nose. Seductive blackcurrant fruit with fruit cake and spice flavours too. On the palate, the tannins are firm but not tight and the lush, rounded fruit that help to make it expressive enough to enjoy now. The acidity and body are in balance and a streak of Graves minerality finish off the long length admirably. This is an approachable style of wine from a fabulous vintage- at a very reasonable price, considering the quality on show here!
(Alun Griffiths MW, BBR Wine Director)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
2006 Red, drink-or-keep
Savigny-lès-Beaune, Hauts Jarrons, 1er Cru, Maison Nicolas Potel -- Maison Nicolas Potel -- France
Pinot Noir, 13% alc.
Nicolas Potel is one of Burgundy’s most charismatic wine-makers. This Savigny-lès-Beaune vineyard, Les Hauts Jarrons, owned by Nicolas himself, nestles on a steep slope just below the main Paris autoroute. The youngest vines here are over thirty years old, helping to ensure concentration of flavour. The 2006 vintage was sold under the Nicolas Potel label, but future vintages will be as Domaine Potel. This is a beautifully elegant, refined and perfumed Savigny. Aromatic notes of red cherry and peony dominate, with a deliciously refined texture on the palate.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Buyer)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
2006 White, drink-now
Saint Aubin Le Charmois, 1er Cru, Domaine Jean-Claude Bachelet -- Jean-Claude Bachelet -- France
Chardonnay, 13% alc.
St Aubin is fairly evenly divided between red and white wines and both provide excellent value. The Premier Cru Le Charmois is the closest vineyard to Chassagne-Montrachet and benefits from a warm micro-climate.This is a rounded, generous white Burgundy that is starting to show all its charm. Enjoyable on its own but even better alongside a dish of pasta with a creamy, seafood sauce or a chicken fricassée.
(Jasper Morris, MW, BBR Buyer)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
2005 Red, drink-or-keep
Barbera d'Alba Santo Stefano di Perno, Monforte d'Alba, Mascarello -- Giuseppe Mascarello e Figlio -- Italy
Barbera, 14% alc.
"The wine's high quality and elegance owes much to the elevated single Santo Stefano vineyard, located in the Monforte d'Alba hamlet of Perno, with its deep iron-rich marl and sandstone soils. Sage and red cherry fruit fruit aromas pepper the very fine nose, while the palate continues in this vein, being very refined, suave, woven with the subtlest of structure and great breed; in fact such is the wine's race and vineyard resonance that it reminds one more of Nebbiolo than Barbera. Very senior...drinking now and over the next 5 years. Excellent with any wild mushroom dish." (David Berry Green - BBR Buyer)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
2006 White, drink-now
Rioja Blanco, Finca Allende -- Finca Allende -- Spain
Viura, 14% alc.
White Rioja of old was made in a deliberately oxidative fashion, often given a lengthy up-bringing in American oak. Its distinctive taste was often a rather unwholesome marriage that brought to mind vanillin on the one hand and over-cooked vegetables on the other. Not to everyone’s taste in other words. Miguel Angel has re-written the rules, and his superb white Rioja is aged in tightly-grained French oak, its roughly equal division of Viura and Malvasia lending, respectively, texture and aromatics.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
2007 White, drink-now
Lake Hayes Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (Stelvin) -- Amisfield Estate -- New Zealand
Sauvignon Blanc, 12.5% alc.
Pale staw in colour and a fresh, zingy nose of gooseberries, nettles and new-mown grass. Soft, dry and full on the palate, with hints of tropical fruit, guava, grapefruit and pineapple. A fine example of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.
(Alun Griffiths MW, Wine Director)

Bottle
75 cl 		2
Tasting Notes Reserve Mixed Case, Wine Club, September 2009 --

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