Asteries Vintage:2008 The palate is smooth and

The palate is smooth and rounded with good weight

The 2001 Barolo Sarmassa (magnum) flows onto the palate with crushed rose petals

(from Les Crais

Asian spices

offering impressively concentrated and sharply delineated flavors of sappy red fruits

Asteries Vintage:2008 The palate is smooth andFrom proprietor Jonathan Malthus, this single vineyard wine emerges from 80 year old vines on limestone that survived the devastating frost of 1956. Black cherry and blackcurrant fruit with some licorice and truffle are all present in this dense purple wine. Youthful and loaded with minerality and tannin, this is another infant at age 10. Forget it for another decade and drink it over the following 25 30 years. The final blend was 85% Merlot and 15%