Small pour of Warre’s Warrior Finest Reserve Port last evening
Wine of the Day - WOTD - 2024
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With pizza
Not bad. With lasagna out.
Dow’s 10 in the foreground
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Weingut Ziereisen ~ Tschuppen ~ Pinot Noir, Baden, Germany 2020
This red is a beautiful entry-level Pinot Noir from the well reputated German winenery Ziereisen (wine region of Baden) that we bought on holiday in a small wine shop.
Since it punched way above it's ridiculously low price tag (12 Euro, a steal for the quality the wine offered), we went back to the shop and bought a full box of 6 bottles. Sold out now
A nose of dark cherries and herbs, lovely taste of cherries intermixed with a touch of dark chocolate and herbs. Fresh Pinot style - makes you to wanting another sip.
Cheers
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Is it appropriate to call the winery Müller-Catoir the godfather of the Scheurebe? Perhaps. But anyway, they know how to craft great wines from this grape variety...
This entry level "Scheurebe" (Scheu's grape) is a beautifully balanced summer wine.
Swirling the glas I get notes of limes, fresh cut gras, black currant and an unripe apricot.
Right about the same in taste-wise, but underlined with a bright mineral taste, reminiscent of pepples.
A vivid acid in the attack. Juicy, but dry. Perhaps 4 or 5 grams of residual sugar. Definitely not more than that. Thanks to the vivid acid the wine really is crisp and a joy to sip.
A steal for it's moderate price.
Cheers, everyone!
Did not have high expectations for this, but my local wine shop store had this in stock and after our trip to Greece last year we wanted to try something with a little more age on it (everything we had while there was on the younger side). It was a fun wine to have even though you can tell it didn’t have the stuffing to be impressive at this stage.
uncomplicated Rosé from Lake Garda with a Prawn&Avocado salad
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Cellier Saint Jean, Pouilly Fumé, 2013
Given the nose of black bread and ripe apples, the bottle better had been opened a couple of years earlier, but with further airation the aromes of this Sauvignon blanc integrated nicely.
In addition to red apples, there were also hints of peat and salt in the flavour. Delicate.
Cheers!
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J.L. Vergnon ~ Cuvée Conversation Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru
A beautiful Champagner which was disgorged in 2014. A beautiful BdB nose of brioche, citrus notes and apple. Same in the taste, but with a refined salinity. Offered an elegant mousseux. At its peak now. Really nice.
you might not want to use mousseux to describe a good champagne as it normally relate in French to **** poor sparkling wine
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Oh. Thanks for making me aware. So what would be the proper naming then (in French) instead? Perlage?
Oh very nice.
Tasting Sassi ‘10 just after bottling was what changed my mind about ‘STs’. It was unimprovable. Which irritated me, because I couldn’t afford it. Same thing whenever I taste the top Gaja Barbarescos (Barbaresci?). It just annoys me.
How I would love to be wealthier / more successful / less indolent!
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I can find some really nice wine for 1/4th the price. It’s not the price of the bottle it’s the quality of the wine.
I actually need someone to come and take a bunch of wine off of us. Headed to a new winery tonight (Turks Head Winery) our friend is the winemaker for them. R5 Wines - excellent wine - but he learned in France so they are not American style.
That was exactly what annoyed me about it! Normally when tasting fancy wines I think to myself:
‘Yeah that’s pretty smart, but I know a heap of similar stuff that’s at least as good, and a fraction of the price.’
Not so with Sassi ‘10. It was too perfect.
(I’ve not tasted it in probably the last decade. But when it was young it had lovely, lifted aromatics, backed by proper bones and acid structure. I’d have happily drunk it then, but it seemed built to last too).
Well I’ll give a shout next time I’m in Cali. I can certainly help you dispose of some that Italian rubbish taking up space in the cellar!
Im in PA it is illegal to privately transact any alcohol here or I would have sold off half of our cellar years ago.That was exactly what annoyed me about it! Normally when tasting fancy wines I think to myself:
‘Yeah that’s pretty smart, but I know a heap of similar stuff that’s at least as good, and a fraction of the price.’
Not so with Sassi ‘10. It was too perfect.
(I’ve not tasted it in probably the last decade. But when it was young it had lovely, lifted aromatics, backed by proper bones and acid structure. I’d have happily drunk it then, but it seemed built to last too).
Well I’ll give a shout next time I’m in Cali. I can certainly help you dispose of some that Italian rubbish taking up space in the cellar!
I started drinking off some of the better wines just because, here was one about a year ago.
Yesterday evening, a tour de force of Austrian Natural/Orange wines.
I’m getting better at it but still it’s mostly a chore not pure enjoyment.
I’m getting better at it but still it’s mostly a chore not pure enjoyment.
I gotta say I am not that well educated and then they spent so much time for years telling us that all those bubbles were due to the glass being dirty that they tend to just not talk about it too much. And by being dirty they meant , dry lint from your towel, bit of mineral from the water crystallizing during the drying process etc.
This year’s harvest was Grüner Veltliner in a friends vineyard near Krems
Yield was about 1,500kg
Yield was about 1,500kg
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