2017 is now firmly part of history and with 7826 wines tasted in 2017, it has been a busy year. But two wines have already seen 96 points in 2018! Highlights of the year other than specific wines?
-My first trip to the Rhône Valley, and my first really close look on several wines from this valley side by side. Some stunning stuff made here. I knew that from before, but I still get to taste very few of these lovelie...
TOP 41 WINES from Bordeaux vintage 2015
The wines on this list is chosen for their believed future score and and thereafter in the order that I would like to buy them to have them in my collection (if I had money dripping from my finger tips) but there are, luckily, some wines on this list that are not overly expensive. After five hundred and fifty plus wines tasted of the 2015 vintage more or less everything there is to taste of names have...
2015 Château Montrose APR 16 Ruby. Spices, dark fruits, floral, red berries, floral, detailed, maybe not the most intense Montrose but a lovely nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, fresh, fruity, dark berries, rounded texture, juicy, lively, smooth and precise, long. 13,4% alcohol this year. Montrose has been ecological for a few years already and starts trials on biodynamics now in 2016. 94-96
2015 La Dame ...
To me wine is one of the greatest and sometimes worst of the worlds greatest pleasures. When you get that one bottle, or even that one sip of a truly great wine, you're just lost. Wine can be almost everything, great pleasure, great fun, deeply tragic, complex, easy, boring, fresh, fantastic, but maybe the greatest of it all, floating history. Imagine drinking your birth year wine, you drink you're own age, and in a way your own life. Memories...
Born in 1979 Christer has tasted a massive amount of wines for his age. With seventeen years of experience and more than 58.000 wines tasted in total with a focus on fine wines and especially Bordeaux, but also the wines of Burgundy, Port, Madeira and German Rieslings. He tastes 7-8000 wines annualy from all over the world. Christer started his education in fine wine back in 2003 when he took the WSET Level 2 Intermediate Certificate. In 2005 ...
It is a list, but it’s difficult to put it correctly, it’s more the first that springs to my mind thinking back on the year that has passed by.
1. Just for the sheer pleasure and luxury of being able to follow and share one bottle of 1982 Château Mouton Rothschild over several hours with just one fellow drinker. A magnificent bottle, the best one I’ve had, opened randomly (word not chosen randomly) by ...
Château Pétrus 2024 + other great St.Emilion and Pomerol red wines from vintage 2024.
Petrus 2024 /Ruby. Scented, blueberries, floral, nuanced, red fruits, detailed, bright and lifted nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, juicy, fruit forward, detailed, elegant, bright, lovely balance, wonderful texture that builds up elegantly throughout the palate, long finish. Refined. 96-98
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2024 Vintage Pessac-Léognan Whites / 2024 Domaine de Chevalier blanc / Pale lemon yellow. Apples, citrus, fruit forward, nuanced, lemons, detailed and elegant nose, tight. Fresh acidity, apples, rounded, detailed, nuanced, juicy, refreshing, wonderful intensity and balance, gorgeous. 98
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Boscarelli is one of the stars of the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano appelation, and here was a very rare oportunity, to taste a vertical from them, all the way back to the first vintage of Il Nocio, one of their single vineyard wines. It has changed name a few times over its lifetime.
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To celebrate 25 years of ownership of the Wilmers family at Haut-Bailly, they organised a wonderful evening with tasting each vintage from magnum, as well as a wonderful dinner. It is the only time the estate has organised such a tasting, so a treat indeed to be part of it!
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Domaine Ramonet tasted: 2020 Ramonet Bâtard-Montrachet / Pale lemon yellow. Apples, citrus, minerals, detailed, rich, layered, nuanced, detailed and complex nose. Fresh acidity, intense, rich, layered, nuanced, detailed, creamy, fruit forward and long. 96
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Burgundy 2022 Part III / Anne Gros Richebourg 2022: Bright ruby. Scented, seductive, red berries, detailed and nuanced, lifted, elegant nose, layered and complex.Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, anise, red berries, spices, detailed, layered, gorgeous texture, stunning length. 96
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