Palazzo Della Torre 2013 Veronese, Allegrini - wow. The production of this wine is impressive. Corvina and Rondinella grapes are fermented in September and a second group are dried until January when they are pressed and added to the September juice. I have decanted it and it is wonderful!!!!! For a restaurant wine I am very very impressed. I am at DePalmas in Athens GA the downtown restaurant. The bouquet is a bit jammy with chocolate and cherries. Like a chocolate covered cherry!! The initial palate is dark cherry, blackberry, and tart raspberry. The mid palate comes quick with notes of chocolate and spice. The finish is wonderful. It is very dry with hints of coffee and nutmeg. What a complex wine. Its the best Italian wine Ive had yet!!!!! — 8 years ago
It's wine 🍇 — 8 years ago
This is the gold standard by which I judge all other $25 purchases. Insurance for my rental car? Nope, a bottle of Senior, please. Pack of 24 pairs of new socks? I'll wear holes and drink this instead. Honeydew, green apples, parsley and charcoal. RS and Magic acid. Everything you've ever wanted in a juice cleanse and a cocktail all in one. — 9 years ago
Great juice. Supple and sweet. Lacks a bit in complexity, but so tasty! — 10 years ago
All juice, flexible tannins. Ready to drink any time but we could wait for 10 more yrs, too. — 11 years ago
Whoa!! Juicy juice! Deep fruit and luscious. Kind of sexy — 7 years ago
Light fruity juicy AF — 7 years ago
Berries with plummy juice overtones few tannins. Nice structure Great value for the price! ...Kinda like a cab met up with a beautiful full bodied Pinot and had a Daou!!! Oh yes😉 — 9 years ago
Love this juice — 10 years ago
Very sweet. Great for people just starting to drink wine, tastes like a berry juice. — 11 years ago
Love this stuff — 11 years ago
Bubbly like a prosecco, very sweet like apple juice, clings to the palette. — 12 years ago
Oh mommy.. (in magnum) — 7 years ago
Continuing to kick off the un-labor weekend early in the D&S Lounge.
For those of you who haven’t seen me post Kalinda, it’s a private label from K&L Wine Merchants. They buy a quality producers juice or have them make a wine for them. I don’t know who made this wine but, they are a quality Oakville producer. This bottle cost me $18.99 about eight years ago and it tastes better than some Napa Cabernets at $75 plus that I’ve had. You just have to wait on them 5-10 years. This is somewhere near its peak.
It’s a slice of blue fruit heaven. On the nose, blueberries, mulberries, olallieberries, plum, blackberries, black raspberries, dark cherries, strawberries, vanilla, sweet mixed berry cola, light cinnamon, soft dark spice, limestone minerals, dry crushed rock powder, dry top soil, black cherry licorice, a waft of dry herbs with bright dark red florals and violets.
The palate is round and full. Tannins are 80% resolved. The texture is sexy. The structure, length, tension and balance are in perfect harmony, (Seals & Croft/America on the album “Horse With No Name” style). Lush, ripe; blueberries, mulberries, olallieberries, plum, blackberries, black raspberries, dark cherries & strawberries. Vanilla, sweet mixed berry cola, light cinnamon, clove, touch of nutmeg, soft dark spice that penetrates the palate with some heat, tarry notes, dry stems, soft leather, tobacco with ash, graphite, limestone minerals, dry crushed rock powder, dry top soil, black cherry licorice, a waft of dry herbs with bright dark red florals and violets. The acidity is like a waterfall. The long finishes (minutes) is, round, lush, balanced, elegant harmony. It’s beautifully delicious.
Photos of; the D&S lounge lit up by candle power only and always. — 7 years ago
Funky touch of fizz miracle juice — 8 years ago
Elegant cigarette blueberries copy like Bordeaux blend good juice les pivots style free blend every year — 9 years ago
OWC. Over the top. Great juice. — 9 years ago
Really good juice big and bold. Just how I like it — 10 years ago
Funk on the nose. A little juice, earth, minerality, and balanced acidity. Smells like your grandparents basement. — 10 years ago
Lapierre juice!!! 2013 is great. — 11 years ago
Dirty label but stunning juice. A bit of a treat with some takeaway Burmese as we don't usually drink midweek... officer. — 11 years ago
Jared Graf
Like your mom’s day old raspberry crisp with a fresh lemon juice squeeze, a healthy dusting of white pepper and a scoop of fatty vanilla bean ice cream, suddenly the doorbell rings, you answer and no one is there except for a basket of oily bratwurst cooked in duck fat — 7 years ago