It also has a sweet green herb note to it that Rick believes is a signature of the vineyard.
Equally, Florian Mollet's 2014 Pouilly Fumé Antique, £17, Sainsbury's, is a super-elegant style, all nettle and herb, gooseberry notes, and zesty, mineral intensity.
The Rust en Vrede shows off herb and mineral notes.
The best of today's Chiantis balance good fruit, herb and mineral notes with well-integrated tannins and their trademark acidity.
Scarola Vineyards's 2004 merlot, named Masseria — in Italian, an ancient farmhouse — showed inviting hints of a prune-and-raisin compote, herbs and tobacco notes; some cabernet franc heightens the blend.
The 2011 "San Andreas Fault" is a fascinating tangle of Santa Rosa plum, sweet cherries, herbs and earthy notes.
We pushed six tables together, set two electric kettles to near boiling, and started to unload our haul foil pouches with Hong Kong addresses, baggies of dried green herbs with scribbled notes.
If you don't have the right type of herb, make a note of the volume indicated.
They're a lighter, more reserved style, with intriguing aromatic, wild herb and bramble berry notes".
The French Pinot Noir in this pairing I found a little heavy, but the blackberry and earth driven notes of herb against the tang of the raddish and delicate smokiness of the scallop was the right combination.
