Chiroubles 2019, La Scandaleuse, Domaine Bernard Métrat, Beaujolais22. 00 per bottle ABV 13. 0% Chiroubles is the highest in altitude and perhaps most picturesque of the Beaujolais crus. Altitude and the cool nights it engenders is key in warm vintages such as 2018, and particularly for this wine, which hails from a sun kissed south facing slope, formerly known as Cte Rtie. The southerly aspect delivers ripe red fruit aromas, with hints of cola and spice (a hallmark of this wine, Bernard notes), counterbalanced by

"The 2010 Lafite Rothschild

from grand cru vineyards in Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims

with subtle notes of smoke and vanilla from time spent in French oak

dry conditions and cool nights

bottled in June 2018

There’s an incredible energetic tension with the wine

The De Wet family were one of the earliest settlers arriving in the Cape in 1694

cool fermentations and 12 months ageing in cask followed by a second winter in stainless steel vats give rich

but these are not descriptors of this tremendous wine

The full-bodied palate has a very serious and concentrated core of florals and fruit

a core of ripe blackberry and raspberry fruit laced with white pepper

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