Kelley Fox, Durant Chardonnay 2021 Castilla y Leon

Kelley Fox, Durant Chardonnay 2021 Castilla y LeonPale, lemon apricot, brilliant, and transparent. The nose begins with powdery minerals, and lovely, delicate and fine notes of citrus and vanilla bean pods (no new oak this is from the fruit!). The mouth is smooth and silky, and has racy acidity. The Durant is presently full of tension and high octave energy (its quite young, after all) and would benefit from more time in the bottle, if you like grower Champagne, this could be ready now! Drink this in

No less than six grape varieties give complexity to this beautiful dry wine

A complex and beautifully crafted wine

The nose is full and evocative of wonderful blackcurrant and creme de cassis with a lovely earthy

full bodied red which

The basis for the vermouth is a Moscato Bianco Langarolo wine to which a pure and meticulously refined alcohol is added along with about fifteen different aromatic and medicinal herbs gathered from alpine slopes surrounding Turin

Earth and well hung game to open

Moreish with a delicious salinity on the finish

There are complexed and intense aromatics of black cherry and tayberry

Very long finish

toasty fruit followed by a tasty

Refined and elegant with such detail on the finish

propping up the notes of citrus