95% Cannonau with a small addition of Bovale and Pascale di Cagliari.
Year
2005
Alcohol
14 %
Taste
Warm and enveloping, a soft balance between acid notes and rounded tannins, good lasting flavour but leaving a clean finishing touch
Colour
Ruby Red, bright, brilliant and full-bodied.
1 Bottle:£11,00
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TCD Opinion
Four star year considered good. High quality wine produced in the old traditions of Sardinia.
The Story behind the Cellar Door & Cannonau "sos usos de una ia":
This Cannonau is a very unique wine. It has a strong full, flavour. We first... MORE INFO
TCD Score: 88/100
With a score of 88 this wine is generous and full-bodied, produced with the natural methods of the old Sardinian traditions. The wine is very typical of the region and this wine highlights all the particluarities of the Cannanau grape.
Vermentino mostly with small varying qualities of local white grapes depending on the vintage.
Year
2007
Alcohol
14 %
Taste
Fresh, dry, well-defined with pleasant delicacy and crispness.
Colour
Yellow with a slight greenish tinge.
1 Bottle:£11,00
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TCD Opinion
A taste of Sardinian terroir, local grapes.
The 2007 Costamolino is primarily Vermentino with a small addition of other local varieties. This is a gorgeous white with layers of perfume-laced fruit that flow from the... MORE INFO
TCD Score: 89/100
89 Points for one of the best examples of Vermentino around at this price point.
To the palate it is sweet and harmonic, elegant, mellow and seductive, pleasantly persistent and gratifying.
Colour
A golden honey yellow colour.
1 Bottle:£12,00
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TCD Opinion
2006 was a four star year, considered good among vintages.
The very good 2006 Moscato di Sorso Sennori Tres Montes is an typical Sardinian Moscato offering a mouth full of tropical fruit, some residual sugars, a crisp acidity, and... MORE INFO
TCD Score: 84/100
With a score of 84 this wine is a good dessert wine that should be drunk early. It's quite an unusual wine and will bring you pleasure with its diversity.
Rich, well-rounded, satisfying, with a good structure, characteristic in its unmistakable bouquet - this wine is long-lived if well preserved in the bottle.
Colour
The intense, ruby red color of this wine tends toward orange with age.
1 Bottle:£13,50
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TCD Opinion
The QPR of this wine is stunning. Bargain.
The 2006 Costera Isola dei Nuraghi (100% Cannonau) is another knock-out effort from Argiolas. It reveals masses of super-ripe fruit bacon fat and licorice flavors. Today... MORE INFO
TCD Score: 90/100
90 Points for a great example of the grape in a great Sardinian vintage.
Typical and particular to Sardinia (Cannonau, Carignano, Bovale Sardo), with the addition of Malvasia Nera.
Year
2003
Alcohol
14 %
Taste
Well-rounded, heavy with an extremely individual and pleasing structure. Very high "souplesse" index.
Colour
Dark, but intense, ruby red, due to ageing
1 Bottle:£61,50
VAT included
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TCD Opinion
A wonderful opportunity to try the best of Sardinian winemaking, a 93 point blockbuster of some style. Spicey, big and powerful.
The estate's 2003 Turriga is a more linear, structured wine than the Korem. A bold, racy wine, it reveals sweeping elegance in its focused black fruit, bacon fat and wild... MORE INFO
TCD Score: 93/100
93 Points for the best vintage of Turriga ever produced. A stunning example of Sardinian winemaking showing the true potential and quality of the region.
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