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...
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...
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.
Despite the challenge of the drought and scorching heat wave in Napa on 2022 vintage, Blankiet Estate managed to make wines that scored as high or one even higher than past top vintages!
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3m 12d ago
Levy&McClellan vertical tasting from the first vintage with Bob Levy
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4m 4d ago
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!?
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8m 16d ago
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!
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11m 26d ago
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.
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1y 4d ago
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.
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1y 23d ago
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).
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1y 1m ago
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