Decided to try a local wine from New Mexico St. Clair LesCombes 2008 Petit Verdot. Very simplistic nose slight cherries but not much. Nice mouth feel and good midpalate but finished short with little aftertaste. At $36, not the best buy in the world. Keep trying to find local wines to my tastes but end up with Gruet being the best. On the other hand, several Colorado wines are drinking well and we have a Colorado winery tour planned for the fall.
Local Wine LesCombes
May 10, 2011
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Don't often see many single varietal Petit Verdot bottlings!
A few. I just ordered 2 bottles of a Petit Verdot from Italy 2007 Fiume Di Lava Petit Verdot. Had a bottle at a local restaurant and I could only find 2 more bottles at all. Wine was an A Dale Scale and even approached an A+. Petit Verdot is one of my favorite grapes.
I had an Italian (Scilian) wine at a tasting recently that was supposed to be 100% Petit Verdot...2008 Franchetti. It was huge, bold and concentrated and pricey as I recall.
These were $32 a piece plus I got fee shipping so no taxes either.
Wow the Franchetti is $19 per bottle.
Sorry typo should be $109 per bottle
Wow! I was at a trade dinner featuring Franchetti and Tenuta di Trinoro wines and didn't realize it was that expensive. I thought it was in the $60 range.
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