Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru, Les Crots, Edouard Delaunay 2020 vs Valdicava, Brunello di Montalcino 2019
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru, Les Crots, Edouard Delaunay 2020 currently starts £1.70 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £97.30 | £99.00 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Edouard Delaunay | Valdicava |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Pinot Noir | Sangiovese |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru, Les Crots, Edouard Delaunay 2020
"A high and stony slope to the west of the village, with very shallow soils leading straight on to the bedrock. Grapes are organic and aged in 30% new oak. Dark and brooding berry fruits, cacao nibs, dried violets and smoke. Palate is full of stones, salt and freshness – like a plunge in a cold rockpool. Really quite visceral and muscular, with juniper and currants, bounded by sweeter cherry tobacco tannins, this cuvée takes a year or two to show charm and polish but when it blossoms it will be a head-turner I guarantee." Tom Harrow, Head Wine Guru Laurent set about to catapult these wines into the stratosphere and after sweeping up at the IWC 2020 awards for their incredible 2019s, one could argue, they may have reached space itself! They were in fact the biggest winner at the awards, picking up 8 trophies, Red Winemaker of the Year (for the wonderful Christophe Briotet), as well as 15 gold, 30 silver and 7 bronze medals. Every cuvée is treated individually, without a set formula for quantity of new oak, or amount of whole bunches used, which allows each wine to offer a true and deeply satisfying expression of the individual terroirs and vintage. What we have is absolutely everything we love about Burgundy. A real sense of place.
Valdicava, Brunello di Montalcino 2019
At our 2019 Anteprima tasting we showed the first bottles to leave the estate of Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino 2019, and it was so popular we had a raft of pre-orders that will devour most of our allocation. We have been waiting patiently since to offer what is a phenomenal pair of releases from one of the region’s finest producers in one of its best ever vintages. Valdicava are firmly in the top echelon of Brunello, with Vincenzo Abruzzese, whose grandfather was one of the original growers, propelling the estate to the stratosphere. Only around 5000 cases are made each year across the portfolio and the dedication to quality is second to none here with Valdicava electing to bottle no Montosoli or Riserva in 2017 or 2018, nor even producing an estate Brunello in 2018! Such an obsession with excellence guarantees that this set of releases is the crème de la crème – well worth the two years wait for a new Valdicava Brunello.
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