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an amazing terraced amphitheater planted with very old Garnacha vines on chalky soils at higher altitude in Montsant

Bottled December 2008

warm pastry and crisp green orchard fruit

Comte Liger Belair, Romanee other_regions_australia In that senseRelatively strong reduction flattens the fruit and renders the nose impossible to comment on. Otherwise there is excellent richness to the cool mineral tinged and seductively textured middle weight flavors that possess a really lovely sense of underlying tension on the clean and pure finish that delivers strikingly good length. 2012 is not an opulent vintage for this wine, in fact it's almost delicate but the gorgeous balance and mid palate