The penultimate day of the official festive period sees db’s Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay suggest a trio of Californian wines, including an “exquisite” 100-pointer that your true love will appreciate. The wines: The Californian perfection case Format: Yet another mixed case of three bottles of three perhaps slightly lesser known Californian superstars all now distributed through La place de Bordeaux. Unique selling point: After the joys of the tenth day of Christmas you might not think that it possible for your true love to aim any higher, but here we reach a natural summit – three wines all released on la place de Bordeaux this autumn that have two things in common. They are all from California and each attained 100 points in my evaluation (and each for the first time). They are: Morlet’s Coeur de Vallée 2021, Paul Hobbs’s Cristina’s Signature 2021 and, one of the last wines I tasted in the campaign, Cardinale’s Estate Red 2021. Yours for: Again, these are not the easiest wines to source even a few months after their release, though all are currently available according to wine-searcher in Europe (two of the three in the UK) for a total cost of around £600-700, duty and tax paid. Morlet Coeur de Vallée 2021 (Oakville, Napa Valley; 95% Cabernet Sauvignon; 5% Cabernet Franc; 15.6% alcohol; aged 16 months in French oak, 85% of which was new; tasted in person with Luc Morley at the CVBG press tasting; essentially the last part of the Oakville Valley to
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