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Top ranked wine puts out New World brilliance
By Aubrey Buckingham |
March 8, 2009, Sunday
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THE mighty Enomatic machine at Otto finally has a chance to show its worth this month as Casa Lapostolle has stocked it with a range of its wines, including the phenomenal 2005 Clos Apalta.
The Bordeaux blend, which includes the Chilean favorite carmenere, was named Wine Spectator magazine's top wine of 2005. Made from 60-to-80-year-old vines grown bio-dynamically in Chile's Colchagua Valley, this is a technically brilliant wine aged in 100 percent new French oak and is neither fined nor filtered.
The wine is made from a long, laborious process that involves de-stemming by hand, feeding berries into a gravity flow winery and fermenting in small lots. The effort paid off in the even, warm and dry 2005 vintage described as "easily Chile's modern best."
The wine, distributed by Moet Hennessey Diageo Estates and Wines, benefits from the blend, with rich, round notes and a velvety palate. The long, luscious length and beautifully integrated tannins suggest that this is one New World wine worth putting away.
Available for retail for 888 yuan (US$130), this WS 96-pointer can now be enjoyed at 218 yuan a glass at Fumin Road's Otto restaurant. The Enomatic machine, which uses nitrogen to preserve wines, has always been touted as a vessel for dispensing premium wines by the glass and this is a grand cuvee to stock.
Additionally, other Casa Lapostolle wines will also be available by the glass, with a tasting flight of WS 90-pointer wines offered at 138 yuan.
The Bordeaux blend, which includes the Chilean favorite carmenere, was named Wine Spectator magazine's top wine of 2005. Made from 60-to-80-year-old vines grown bio-dynamically in Chile's Colchagua Valley, this is a technically brilliant wine aged in 100 percent new French oak and is neither fined nor filtered.
The wine is made from a long, laborious process that involves de-stemming by hand, feeding berries into a gravity flow winery and fermenting in small lots. The effort paid off in the even, warm and dry 2005 vintage described as "easily Chile's modern best."
The wine, distributed by Moet Hennessey Diageo Estates and Wines, benefits from the blend, with rich, round notes and a velvety palate. The long, luscious length and beautifully integrated tannins suggest that this is one New World wine worth putting away.
Available for retail for 888 yuan (US$130), this WS 96-pointer can now be enjoyed at 218 yuan a glass at Fumin Road's Otto restaurant. The Enomatic machine, which uses nitrogen to preserve wines, has always been touted as a vessel for dispensing premium wines by the glass and this is a grand cuvee to stock.
Additionally, other Casa Lapostolle wines will also be available by the glass, with a tasting flight of WS 90-pointer wines offered at 138 yuan.
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