Volcanic Wines - Mixed Case

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Volcanic Wines - Mixed Case

from £173.80

A spectacular mixed case of 'volcanic' wines containing either 1 or 2 bottles of each of the following wines:

Whites

Artifice Listan Blanco, Borja Perez, Tenerife, Spain 2022 - £29.95
“One of Tenerife's greatest bargains… As good as Domaine Roulot's Bourgogne Blanc.” - Tim Atkin MW, 94 pointsAnother wild and dramatic white from the volcanic island of Tenerife, which will challenge your ‘fight or flight’ reactions as your eyes widen and your nostrils flare at the sheer intensity of its aromas. Grapefruit, rocks broken open by a pickaxe, bacon fat, preserved lemons, salted nuts. It’s not dissimilar to the Trenzado from Suertes de Marques, which isn’t entirely surprising, as it’s made from the same grape (Listan Blanco) on the same island, but you could argue that there’s just a touch more ripeness of stone fruits here. An absolutely stunning wine for the price and one that everyone with a sense of adventure should try. Organic and biodynamically farmed. 12.5% alc. Drink now-2028.


Gaia 'Wild Ferment' Assyrtiko, Santorini, Greece 2024 - £39.00
We could write paragraphs about why the Assyrtiko grape deserves to be recognised as a ‘noble’ grape variety alongside the likes of Chardonnay and Riesling, but the market has a shorthand way of indicating that the word is already spreading by the fact that it has gone up from €0.60 per kilo to €3.00 per kilo in the last 2 years alone. Gaia’s ‘Wild Ferment’ is one of the finest expressions that we know, a wine with the most extraordinary aromas, thanks to the fact that Gaia source grapes for this cuvée from the upland vineyard of Pyrgos, considered to produce the most aromatic Assyrtiko on Santorini and the fact that each barrel undergoes a wild ferment, meaning that every barrel is slightly different depending on the particular yeast strain that initiates the fermentation, not to mention the fact that the wine is aged in stainless steel, French oak, American oak (some new, some used) and acacia barrels. It’s an astonishingly complex, intense, rich, bone dry and refined white wine that perfectly balances varietal expression with winemaking influence and the salty lemon identity of Assyrtiko from Santorini really shines through. 13.5% alc. Drink now-2030.

Etna Bianco 'Guardoilvento', Pietro Caciorgna, Sicily, Italy 2024 - £26.95
A very exciting new white wine from Paolo Caciorgna (winemaker of the finest Etna Rossos you will ever taste!) and a wine that conveys an impression of the vineyard’s soil as eloquently as any Sancerre or Mosel Riesling. There’s gunflint and wispy chalk and smoky pumice that underpins the crystal clear grapefruit, mandarin and lemon verbena flavours, which finish wonderfully clean and precise, like a sharply guillotined ream of paper. 13% alc. A blend of Carricante, Catarratto, Inzolia and Minella. Drink now-2028.

Reds

Etna Rosso 'Ciauria', Pietro Caciorgna, Sicily, Italy 2024 - £20.95
A beautifully aromatic Nerello Mascalese sourced from pre-phylloxera vines on the slopes of Mount Etna, fermented with wild yeasts and aged for 6 months in French oak barrels. The combination of the altitude (2,000 feet above sea level) and the rich, mineral soil, give the wine extraordinary aromatic lift, almost exotic, suggesting chopped red cherries, peach fuzz and whetstone, while the palate is as buoyant and fresh, as the somewhat pale colour suggests it will be, but there's real fascination and depth in there too, as you might find in a ripe Nebbiolo or a richly-scented Pinot Noir. 13.5% alc. Drink now-2029.

Artifice Tinto, Borja Perez Viticultor, Tenerife, Spain 2021 - £23.95
The Artifice Tinto 2021 is made from Listan Negro and has everything you could desire from a Tenerife red, evoking wild cherry, pomegranate, kumquat, white pepper and orange peel. In term of aromatic flare, it shares similarities with grapes like Nebbiolo, Nerello Mascalese and Gamay (imagine a Beaujolais sourced from a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam and ashes are expelled!). It’s only medium-bodied and fairly zippy for a red wine, with sour cherry acidity, but it's full of character. It’s the sort of wine I would love to be served at a groovy wine-bar like Sager and Wilde or The Remedy, either on its own or with food, or on my own or with company, because even if I’m on my own, it’s bound to pique the curiosity of my fellow drinkers and I probably won’t be drinking alone for long! 12.5% alc. Organic farming. 10 months in oak. Drink now-2028.

Tenuta Castellaro, Nero Ossidiana, Lipari Island, Italy 2017 - £33.00
I don’t know what it is about ‘island wines’, but we can’t seem to get enough of them at the moment. Maybe it’s the individuality that comes from working with indigenous grape varieties or perhaps it’s the winemaking traditions that are the product of working within a geographical echo chamber for centuries, but we love them and this one is an absolute stunner. It comes Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands off the northern coast of Sicily and is a blend of the indigenous Corinto grape (90%) and the more familiar southern workhorse, Nero d’Avola (10%), and has a silky, mouthwatering quality that sets it apart from a lot of southern Italian reds, which can often get bogged down under the weight of their own fruit. It’s aromatically complex and rich in fruit, but its physique is lissome and lithe and it comes in at a pleasing 13% alcohol. If you like Etna Rosso, then you should definitely make some space in your shopping basket for a few bottles of this too. It’s darker in colour and in its fruit profile, but the volcanic soil makes its presence felt in the way the cool minerality reflects the fleshy cherry and plum fruit and the ageing in chestnut barrels just adds a subtle yet delectable hint of toasted almonds and sandalwood. Not to be missed! 13% alc. Drink now-2025.

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