MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.2

85% #garnachablanca 15% #chardonnay from a #singlevineyard in #somontano #spain #handharvested and carefully whole-bunch pressed lightly to give the finest and fruitiest expression of the grapes fermented with wild yeasts to express the terroir. The vineyard, “El Llano” is 2.5 hectares and is the highest in Somontano in the #pyrenees at 700m. Above sea level. 4 months on fine lees in stainless steel. 90 Parker 92 Suckling — 4 years ago

with Rosario

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

9.7

In an era of making cabernets for softies here is one with poise and structure; hard to find but another group gave it a trophy; recognition of completeness at such a young age; has a tannic seam setting it apart from many floppy Coonawarras and Margaret Rivers who think to have claimed the pinnacle; tautly wound flavours of tobacco and olive, no raw fruit flavours only finesse here with a coulis of tastes; Blue Pyrenees Estate #avoca 2012 cabernet 68%, merlot 22%, malbec 8%, shiraz 2% (probably used for topping); #drinkoz #drinkvictoria #pyrenees #bluepyrenees #estateblend 14%, AUD 40 #cabernetsauvignon #merlot #malbec #shiraz ; long ager too, think decades; a wine one must try; tasted alongside Segla 2005 from Margaux in magnum; similar tannins just drier! — 9 years ago

Richard Haynes

9.1

Lean & focused, with flinty minerals & lemon zest. Pretty cool #riesling from the Spanish #pyrenees — 9 years ago

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

8.9

This is the diet that Victorians must have! Pyrenees (not French Pyrenees) cabernet is a very individual animal here; meaty, dried herbs, tobacco, eucalypt, herbage, earth, no red or black fruits; rounded but slight taut tannins on finish; oak hidden, 13.5%, named after an old colleague who was so generous in helping a young Brisbane boy become a master of wine; Colin Richardson 2012; #victoria #pyrenees #cabernet #bluepyrenees — 10 years ago