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    Gaja’s Super Barbaresco 

    It is September 2 and the sun has been punching holes in the mass of clouds spread over the village of Barbaresco all morning. By mid-day, the cloud cover has given up. The village and the surrounding vineyards are once again bathed in warm sunshine. Even though the driest and hottest harvest season in more than 70 years is behind us, the foliage of the vineyards surrounding the village still shines green and abunda...

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    My Yesterday

    Juha Lihtonen is one of the most succeeded sommeliers in Nordics. This manyfold sommelier champion of his country won the title of the Best Nordic Sommelier in 2003. After sommelier competitions, he finished his WSET Diploma studies and continued the studies in Masters of Wine programme in London.

    On 2000 he founded the Wine Academy of Helsinki, where he run sommelier and wine waiter trainings. He published his first book in 2002 about comi...

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    Pro Me

    Juha Lihtonen is the co-founder of tastingbook.com. He is also known as the co-founder and Editor of the world's leading fine wine publications, FINE Magazines. In 2008, he founded together with Pekka Nuikki and Essi Avellan MW the magazine that was dedicated exclusively to champagne. FINE Champagne Magazine is the world's one and only champagne magazine.

     

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Wine Moments

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Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  16 Wines  from  1 Producers 

Levy&McClellan vertical tasting from the first vintage with Bob Levy

14d 11h ago

 Blankiet Estate  has updated producer and wine information

20d 11h ago

 Clos Galena  has updated producer and wine information

1m 27d ago

Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  14 Wines  from  13 Producers 

Several lineups of great wines, the bests are from California, but somehow I still fall in love with Italian wines. The wine that delivers its best today from the lineup is Frescobaldi's Castelgiocondo Brunello di Montalcino - lovely wine, but the best by its scores!?

3m 13d ago

Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  9 Wines  from  1 Producers 

A unique Bollinger La Grande Année Jeroboam vertical tasting from 2015 to 1983 with cellar master Denis Bunner. Who says that Magnum format is superior for ageing champagnes.... when it comes to Bollinger, it's Jeroboam!  

6m 23d ago

Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  8 Wines  from  1 Producers 

The Musigny of Champagne was in the glasses when tasting Louis Roederer & Cristal Rosé champagnes with the cellamaster Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon in Grand Champagne Helsinki 2024.

7m 1d ago

Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  13 Wines  from  10 Producers 

Such an eye-opening Bordeaux tasting with flights of two wines partly from different eras and partly from the same vintages from 1982-2015.

The flight pairs gave an exciting reflection of how the wine making has changed during the past decades. Although it is because of modern equipment, better knowhow, new techniques in winemaking and vineyard management, the climate change must play a big role in equation. It is due to this that the top Bordeaux wines have more and more in common with the premium Napa reds such as Blankiet Rive Droite 2021 that we had as a parallel wine from Napa Valley in this tasting.

7m 20d ago

Juha Lihtonen / The Best Scandinavian Sommelier 2003, Sommelier (Finland)  had a tasting of  20 Wines  from  20 Producers 

Great wine dinner with 2 Michelin star chef Eero Vottonen. The stars of the flights were Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2008 (98+p), Château Palmer 1996 (97p) and Blankiet Estate 2018 (97p).

8m 25d ago

 Nadal  has updated producer and wine information

9m 1h ago

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