
SPY VALLEY - Sauvignon Blanc Envoy Johnson Block - 2016
- - 93 points-
James Suckling
December 2001Spy Valley's top line in the sauvignon range, this has seen some oak and delivers a cool,...
Detailed press reviewSpy Valley's top line in the sauvignon range, this has seen some oak and delivers a cool,...
Detailed press reviewThis is the wine our California editor Luke Sykora wanted to drink, and tasting it side by side...
Detailed press reviewThe wine's aromatic yin and yang of tart persimmon and sweet peach with graham cracker cookie dust...
Detailed press reviewThe grapes are vinified partly as whole clusters and punched down each day before ageing for 18...
Detailed press reviewLike many of the wines in the range there is a distinctly floral character to the elegant and cool...
Detailed press reviewSuave and refined, with concentrated cherry, dried berry, sandalwood and briary flavors. Offers...
Detailed press reviewCherry and plum aromas are ripe, sweet and inviting. There's plenty of body and roundness to this...
Detailed press reviewUnusually for a Faiveley red, this was made with 25% whole bunches, partly because of the presence...
Detailed press reviewDue Bicchieri - Two red glasses means a wine is just short of extraordinary but showing distinct...
Detailed press reviewMedium straw-yellow color. Musky, truffley aromas of pineapple, citrus zest, spices and herbs....
Detailed press reviewThis is a blend from most parts of the village, with fruit from 14 different parcels. It is solid...
Detailed press reviewInviting aromas of white flowers and spices, with just a hint of apple. Supple and vinous, offering...
Detailed press reviewThis intensely perfumed wine has great ripe fruits and delicious acidity. It is richly endowed both...
Detailed press reviewDespite the atypical refinement of the Champs Fulliot, this is another step up in elegance with its...
Detailed press reviewDiscreet wood sets off slightly riper yet still fresh aromas of plum, earth, spice and black cherry...
Detailed press reviewA suave customer, featuring ripe black cherry, black currant and violet aromas and flavors wrapped...
Detailed press reviewA lively, fruity style, offering lemon, floral, sweet spice and toast aromas and flavors. Balanced...
Detailed press reviewPrincipally Merlot (45%), Cabernet Sauvignon (25%) and Syrah (19%), along with other red varieties,...
Detailed press reviewThis opens with aromas suggesting underbrush, pressed blue flower and leather. The solid palate is...
Detailed press reviewSlightly reductive and youngish in style showing black fruit, red cherries and oak aromas. Very...
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