Delas, Crozes-Hermitage Albon other_regions_italy

Delas, Crozes-Hermitage Albon other_regions_italyThe 1999 Crozes Hermitage Cuvee Tour d'Albon is powerful, fat, and fleshy, with sweet fruit in addition to impressive aromatic fireworks. It is a gorgeous Crozes that combines elegance, power, length, and harmony. Its delicious primary fruit characteristics will serve it well over the next 4 6 years. This is a good commercial example. The significant difference in quality between the outstanding 1999 northern Rhone vintage and the above average yet

pure honeyed pineapple and orange blossom

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cassis and warm earth scents is followed by relatively fine

slightly austere

this is a superb example of the very fine structure

This could use better depth but more should eventually develop

Shows excellent clarity and lift to the palate-staining blueberry

This has the legs to age well over the medium to even longer-term but should drink reasonably well young if desired

but that wine sets the bar very high (and it earned a 100-point score)

000 bottles were filled

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The dangerous coolness of a glacier