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Le Désir 2012 75cl

Sonoma | California | Stati Uniti d'America
Esaurito
Punteggi dei critici
100 Robert Parker
The 2012 Le Desir (64% Cabernet Franc, 24% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Malbec) reminds me of a young vintage of Ausone, such as 2005. The wine has amazing minerality and an explosive blueberry nose intermixed with blackberries, new saddle leather, charcoal and camphor. It is full-bodied, with espresso notes emerging on the palate. There are 1,900 cases of this super-endowed, prodigious wine that should drink well for 35-40 years. How fun it would be for mega-millionaires to put this in a blind tasting of a great vintage of Ausone in 10, 20 or 30 years from now. I suppose the arguments against giving perfect scores far outnumber those for giving them, but after 37 years of tasting just about everything of quality that’s been produced, I believe I’m in a position to recognize truly world-class efforts that are as complete and compelling as good wine can be. And if that’s the case, then why hold back? I realize that it creates possibly unreal expectations among readers, and there is the argument that nothing really is perfect. But if a wine is as good as you think it can be made, then I have no reservations about offering accolades to those rare wines. When one considers the winemaking effort that goes into producing these cuvées of Vérité, from Bordelais Pierre Seillan, the fastidious attention to detail and the use of only the crème de la crème of fruit from some of the finest vineyards in the Jackson family empire, the results are not that surprising. The 2013s are the pinnacle of what Vérité has produced, and probably all wines that will be better at age 25 or 35 than they are showing today, but they are simply the essence of a vineyard site, a vine and a philosophy of no compromise. All of these wines, basically, are aged in 100% new French oak, given 3-4 day cold pre-fermentation, cold macerations, treated like spoiled children during élevage, and bottled with no fining or filtration. The entire philosophy is that La Muse is the Right Bank Pomerol look-alike from Vérité, La Joie the Medoc-like clone, and Le Desir a St.-Emilion in the style of Ausone.
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Vérité
Fin dall'inizio, i critici hanno sempre inserito tra le migliori selezioni i vini Vérité, i quali rivaleggiano con quelli dei migliori Château di Bordeaux. Vérité è la prima tenuta di Sonoma County ad aver ricevuto dodici punteggi da 100 punti da Robert Parker. Con vigne distribuite in tutta la regione, la tenuta fu fondata dal vignaiolo californiano Jess Jackson, mentre i vini artigianali sono gestiti dal brillante vinificatore Pierre Seillan. I diversi terroir montani, che variano per pendenza e altitudine, creano diversi micro-cru, ovvero piccoli vigneti che hanno definito fin dall'inizio la filosofia vitivinicola di Verité. Sia la famiglia Jackson che Seillan hanno le idee chiare circa lo sviluppo del vino, dalla vigna alla bottiglia: questi micro-cru devono emulare la "vérité" (la "verità") dei suoli di Sonoma County. La Joie è composto prevalentemente da Cabernet Sauvignon e trae ispirazione dai gloriosi rossi della regione francese di Pauillac. La Muse, a base di Merlot, è più diretto e opulento e onora lo stile dei grandi vini di Pomerol. Le Désir è un Cabernet Franc in stile Saint-Émilion, morbido e ricco.