The Foreign Affair The Temptress 2010, VQA Niagara Peninsula

Cabernet + Merlot Cabernet + Merlot
Ontario, Canada

$44.95

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David Lawrason
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David Lawrason

Made from partially dried "appassimento" grapes (led by merlot at 65%) and aged in French oak barrels, this is...

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A merlot dominant appassimento blend with notes of coffee, chocolate, plum and clove. Quite dense and rich, laced...

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David Brodati, DipWSET
David Brodati, DipWSET

Ilya Senchuk's appassimento style blend offers flavours of cooked dark cherry fruit, prune, fig, iodine and oak (baking spice, vanilla, chocolate). Very good length with a bitter mid palate and pronounced alcohol heat (even when chilled to 65 degrees). It's medium-full bodied with substantial tannic grit still present. Decant for at least 2 hours and pair with steak. It's starting to be approachable, but really could use another couple of years in the cellar. July 2014.

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