Crafted with the same passion and quality as their wines, this Extra Virgin Olive Oil is made from estate-grown olives at Allegrini. Yellow-green in color, this oil offers delicate perfume and a fragrant palate with notes of almond on the finish. Cold-pressing the same day as harvest reveals unaltered and natural flavors. 500 ml.
It pours clear garnet, very light in color for a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It seems light on the nose and palate, too, opening with a vinous scent of raspberries, spice, faint vegetal notes and a high-toned whiff of volatile acidity. It's a little more inviting in its flavor, juicy and very tart, simple red fruit and white pepper over almost sour acidity, on the thin side.
The best balanced wine of the entire portfolio
of 2003s is the 2003 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Vieilles Vignes. A complex nose
of mineral, kirsch liqueur, raspberries, balsam, and pepper jumps from the
glass of this medium to full-bodied, nicely layered, structured, rich wine with
notes of black cherry and raspberry. Deep but with lovely ripe tannin, this
wine can be drunk now or cellared for 10-12 years. WA #163 Feb 2006
