International Trophy Dry Riesling over £15 - Leasingham, Classic Clare Riesling, South Australia 2009
The judges adored Leasingham’s combination of great freshness and minerality with an appealing roundness, which they said was ‘hard to fault’.
The judges adored Leasingham’s combination of great freshness and minerality with an appealing roundness, which they said was ‘hard to fault’.
According to Viña Leyda winemaker Viviana Navarrete, it owes much to the qualities of the valley which gives the producer its name, and in whose early development the company was instrumental.
For Piper-Heidsieck cellarmaster Régis Camus, 2006 was a year of contrasts which eventually resulted in an ‘unexpectedly elegant and charming wine’
El Esteco was also the most awarded Argentinian winery in last year’s Decanter World Wine Awards – and the success in both years is a significant advance in the estate’s mission to create awareness about the Calchaquí Valley’s unique natural attributes.
According to Domaine de la Vougeraie, it may be a reminder of mother goddesses, a corruption of the French ‘bonnes mères’ or ‘good mothers’ or, most plausibly, derived from the old French and Burgundian word ‘marer’, to cultivate. In which case, Bonnes Mares are, literally, well-kept vines.