Fedellos do Couto, Bastarda 2023 Maconnais

Fedellos do Couto, Bastarda 2023 MaconnaisThis is perhaps Fedellos do Couto's most unique wine, made from 100% Merenzao (known as Bastarda in Portugal and Trousseau in the Jura) grown on the slopes of the rivers Sil and Bibei. Racy and lifted, with a red fruit nose with lovely peppery notes and sour cherry fruit.

The 2011 Barolo Bricco Fiasco is pretty but almost unusually polished and silky for a site that tends to produce much firmer and more tannic wines

enticing melon and citrus fruit profile

Super elegant with delicious ripe citrus

acacia and fresh

With black fruit aroma

It pairs very well with langoustines

The nose hints at delicious old school Aussie Chardy with rich butter and vanilla essence

richly flavoured twist on the Vermouth style

From a spectacular block in Agter-Paardeberg

There is great minerality on the palate

Piedmont is bright garnet in colour

and candle wax unfold into flavours of bright cherry