Gloria Ferrer Carneros Cuvée Sparkling (Carneros)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Other

Uva

Sparkling Blend

País

United States

Região

Carneros · Napa-Sonoma

Denominação

Carneros

Corpo

medium

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 200594 pts

  Disgorged in October 2015, this sparkler opens with sublime green-apple tones, offering both tartness and stony minerality. A crisp, lemony mousse adds freshness and vibrancy to the complex hazelnut and brioche characteristics. This wine has long legs and memorable completeness.

• 200492 pts

  Golden yellow in color, this aged, vintage cuvée is light and floral, with tastes of guava and fennel around a full, creamy texture and buoyant acidity. Disgorged in July 2014, it stays fresh and vibrant throughout the lengthy finish.

• 200390 pts

  The blend is Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The wine remains tough, dry and scoury at the age of 11 years, showing its yeastiness and subtle flavors of Meyer lemons and limes. It's elegant, but probably not going anywhere, so drink up. Sushi will be an ideal companion.

• 200194 pts

  The 2001 vintage was a good one for Gloria Ferrer, and this brut, made almost equally from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, is exceptionally delicious. It was held on the lees all this time, giving it a creamy yeastiness in addition to savory lime, strawberry and vanilla flavors. Drin…

• 200095 pts

  The winery held back this brut-style wine for eleven years. Even at this great age, the wine tastes young and vibrant in acidity, with rich strawberry, orange, lime and yeast flavors, finished with sweet vanilla. Tastes beautiful now, but extraordinary as it is, it should gain t…

• 199995 pts

  This late-disgorged wine has been released at the age of 11 years. It's a beautiful wine, notable especially for the ultrafine feeling of the mousse, or bubbles. So refined and silky. Rich too are the flavors, in limes, strawberries, toasty lees and minerals. A spectacular spark…

• 199893 pts

  A luscious and superior California bubbly, this blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay shows an irresistable richness of raspberry purée, cherry skin bitterness, vanilla, yeasty baked bread and something unidentifiably smoky-sweet. Yet it's bone dry. With a long, complex finish, it…

• 199795 pts

  This is the winery's most expensive bottling, a late disgorged bubbly that has now seen a decade of age. It shows the elegant polish of the '97 Royal Cuvée, but is superior even to it in richness. The creamy smoothness is the star attraction, but so are the subtle citrus, raspbe…