Smith Madrone Riesling Spring MountainI have been selling Smith Madrone wines since the 2001 vintage, and my love of them has never flagged. They make three wines Cab, Chard, and Riesling, the one well focus on today. This is a legendary wine in Napa Valley the first Riesling to drop Johannesburg from the label; the first to reduce residual sugar down to an Alsatian level; the first wine to be dry farmed in the Valley; and of course the first Riesling from Spring Mountain terroir. Having

” I’m so happy to be drinking this one – and you will be

those ineffable moments of glorious enjoyment

The palate is deep and concentrated with flavors of black cherry

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Over the last few decades

just minutes from the summit of Mont Blanc

A wine of many layers

Beautiful elegance combines with an instantly gratifying mid-palate

and malolactic fermentation proceeds very slowly (finishing at the end of summer or closer to harvest)

The 2018 Barolo Riserva Cerretta Vigna Bricco is a big

enhanced by slight spritz

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