This wine blends elegance and power brilliantly and is ideal for drinking over the coming decade or more

aged all in foudre

Like the other Larkmead bottlings

There is a lovely sense of underlying tension to the stony and muscular large-bodied flavors that conclude in a youthfully austere and robust finale that flirts with rusticity

plums and incense add nuance

Monte Bernardi, Sa'etta Size:6x750ml This wine blends elegance andSa'etta comes from a single vineyard planted in the 60s on compact sandstone rich in quartz, known locally as pietraforte. Michael Schmelzer calls 2016 a classic and fresh year which yielded particularly small concentrated bunches. It is discreet on the nose opening slowing to offer precise aromas of clove, flint, winter mint and moist earth. Savoury rather than fruity, the palate is equally tight with a firm backbone of chiselled tannins and