Rhys Vineyards

Alpine Vineyard, Chardonnay, 2021

Name: Alpine Vineyard, Chardonnay
Brand: Rhys Vineyards
Price: 572.74 GBP

96+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

98/100

Vinous

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all 2019 2021 2022

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Last Few
2021
75cl
DP
£95.46
2021
75cl
DP
£95.46
Last Few
2021
6x75cl
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£572.74
2021
6x75cl
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£572.74
2021
1.5L
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£190.91
2021
1.5L
DP
£190.91
2021
6x1.5L
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£1,145.47
2021
6x1.5L
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£1,145.47

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Alpine is the mother block for today’s Rhys program and source of all massale selection across the rest of the sites. It’s a beautiful site that sits within the fog line which invariably to some degree affects flowering and the final yield the site provides. Typicity here is oyster shells, olive brine and the sea, whose breezes are funneled across the site almost constantly. The 2021 is a wine of sleek finesse that opens out across the mid-palate before tapering away into a long intense mineral finish. It is so often thus, a teardrop of flavour, yet in 2021, there’s another gear to this – a level of precision, poise and detail that sets it apart. The finish is haunting, the elements straining to reveal themselves like lasers inscribing flavour on the palate.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

96+/100

Matthew Luczy,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Another spectacular white wine from Rhys, the 2021 Chardonnay Alpine Vineyard is a fascinating counterpoint to the Horseshoe bottling. Of the two, the Alpine is the more aromatically dazzling out of the gate, with all manner of herbal, floral, chalky, citrus and orchard fruit aromas immediately jumping from the glass. Texturally, the palate shows a graceful, floating quality that juxtaposes the mid-palate assertiveness of the Horseshoe. The finish is long and spherical, concluding on a distinctive note of spearmint and menthol, with spice notes appearing and building with extended oxygen exposure. This is a fantastic effort all around and one that, as with its somewhat nearby neighbor, should be aged for another five years and eagerly consumed over the next 10.

drinking window 2029 - 2039

date of review 04/2024

98/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2021 Chardonnay Alpine Vineyard is so strikingly different from the Horseshoe. It offers tremendous concentration and pure power, a sort of seamless intensity that builds and then carries through to its substantial, resonant finish. Citrus confit, dried flowers, mint and chamomile linger. What a wine.

drinking window 2025 - 2032

date of review 11/2023

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.