Traditional French
wine barriques from good Pinot Noir bestow the subtle flavours of confected fruit and berries, percolated coffee, and spices.
These complex flavours and the full body are the results of a meticulous selection of the grapes, totally handpicked, and a maturation of 24 months in
French barriques and 6 months in bottles.
Also, the skill of Penfolds with Syrah shone in this blind tasting, particularly its St Henri Shiraz, which, without the sweetness of ageing in new
oak barriques, provides a pure expression of great Australian Shiraz in all its juicy, spicy and textured glory.
Headquartered in Great Britain the company has, like Pinocchio, injected life into a piece of wood but instead of a toy with a long nose they have produced a
classy barrique bottle for maturing wine and whisky.
A Moto Guzzi based trike, equipped with two barrels (pardon,
barriques) of Calabrian red wine.
It was their way of saying
the barrique is king, and the botte is yesterday's barrel.