Castello del Terriccio, Lupicaia Size:6x750ml The spicy and overtly muscular

The spicy and overtly muscular big-bodied flavors display even more minerality on the lush but refined finish that is seriously powerful and persistent

but it's not necessarily better

Clapes 2005 Cornas sports a still youthful ruby color to go with lots of crushed rock-like minerality

cherry and leather notes

Castello del Terriccio, Lupicaia Size:6x750ml The spicy and overtly muscularThe balsamic notes are really starting to open up here in the 2009 Lupicaia. This wine has begun to come of age. This was a slightly cooler growing season, and this wine shows little of the ripe, fruit forwardness that marked many of the following vintages. There is a velvety side to this Lupicaia, with more textural looseness and openness in general.