Structure
Drinking window
Best 5 to 15 years from vintage.
vintage5 yrs15 yrs17 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: ripe fruit, blackberry, oak, black pepper
Palate: black plum, dark berries, vanilla
A limited bottling from Saperavi grown near Alaverdi Monastery: deep structure carrying dark berries and ripe plum, with vanilla and oak, velvety tannin and a long refined finish.
What it pairs with
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Chakapuli of lamb
The wine's depth and firm tannin suit a long-braised lamb dish. -
Roast game
Black pepper and oak in the wine echo the seasoning game meat normally gets. -
Aged guda cheese
Salt and sheep's-milk fat round out firm tannin.
Facts
- Producer
- Badagoni · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Saperavi (100%)
- Oak
- Oak aged, with vanilla and oak noted on the finished wine.
- ABV
- 14.0%
- Drinking window
- 5-15 from vintage