CASE PRICE = $74.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
About This Wine:
Vintage 2006
The autumn/winter period of 2005-2006 was exceptionally dry, which was then compensated for by heavy rain during March. There was fine weather and warm temperatures from April to July; August was cooler but the sun returned at the beginning of September to complete the ripening process.
Beautiful pale golden colour with hints of orange.
A fairly dense nose with a delightful combination of flowers (honeysuckle and acacia) and candied fruit.
Starts subtly in the mouth and then intensifies with notes of honey and a long fruity finish with good freshness.
Ratings / Reviews:
95 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:
"Wonderful,
evocative orange marmalade and ginger flavors play around this rich
wine. Its botrytis dryness doesn’t detract from the intense sweetness,
ripe apricots, spice and deliciously refreshing acidity. The richness is
in the texture, but the ripeness is in the open, generous fruit." R.V.
(3/1/2009)
93 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine:"An
intense nose, with vanilla, lemon cream, apple tart and honey.
Full-bodied, very sweet and powerful, with a fabulous finish. So
generous, with layers of delicious, sweet fruit. Best after 2014. 7,665
cases made." –JS (Mar 31, 2009)
91 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
Full
orange-gold. Complex, subtle nose offers orange peel and toffee, plus a
sexy whiff of toasted almond. Dense and moderately viscous but with
good energy and a high-pitched orange flavor dominating the middle
palate. Not hugely sweet or fleshy but seemed to grow more viscous and
honeyed on the back half. Finishes clean, firm and long, with a saline
complexity. Good clean botrytis character here." - Stephen Tanzer (Jun
'09)
96 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine ('05 Vintage):
"Shows enticing aromas of toffee, cream, dried apricot and caramel. Full-bodied, very sweet and thick, with honey and caramel flavors. Long and rich, oozing with sweet, ripe fruit, this is like liquid candy." –JS, (June 2008)
96 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate ('05 Vintage):
No tasting notes available
94 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine ('05 Vintage):
"You get both apricots and honeyed botrytis aromas that are followed through by a dry core, very full-bodied with richness, the sweetness of the yellow jam fruits, apricots and mangoes gliding over the palate. Delicious, and certainly ageworthy." R.V. (6/1/2008)
93 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar ('05 Vintage):
"Full yellow-gold. Expressive aromas of pineapple, coconut, sweet vanillin oak and spices. Then wonderfully thick, fat and sweet, with the exotic coconut character carrying through in the mouth. Finishes saline and powerful, with palate-staining flavors of pineapple, coconut and spicy oak. Conveys a strong impression of solidity." -Stephen Tanzer (Aug '08
)
