Mr. and Mrs. tBoW have been touring Spain for the past couple weeks. As tBoW prepares the reports we offer a welltimed mop up from recent tastings. The best wine out of Malibu gets challenged with seafood stir fry, a very good Carneros Bordeaux blend, and an old Super Second Bordeaux. And even more!(more…)
What are we supposed to make of THIS offering from Garagiste the star email purveyor of great “found” wines?
2008 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti “Le Montrachet” Р$2680.40 For those of us fortunate enough to taste young vintages of this wine, the 2008 is a real stand-out. It combines the endless fruit sap that DRC obtains from this storied vineyard with terrific natural acidity and a myriad of other traits (it also appears to be less oaked and lower in alcohol than in the past – a very good thing for this taster). Should age for 20-30+ years.
Some of the better wines tasted recently. Ain’t summer grand?
2007 Bera Canelli Moscato d’Asti $15 (?): A Louis/Dressner Selection which almost always bodes well. This bottle was left over from summer 2009 in tBoW’s cellar and from 2008 on the store shelf! In other words, a Moscato d’Asti ain’t supposed to go past its release summer and here we have one two seasons over the limit. At three years old it was showing plenty of flavors of peaches and ripe pear juice. Light weight, delicate spritz and at this alcohol level don’t we have to get the current release? Delicious. 5% (more…)
August 3, 2011
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Categories: Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignane, Cinsault, Grenache, Languedoc, Malibu Coast, Merlot, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Mourvedre, Napa, Paso Robles, Pinot Noir, Provence, Riesling, Santa Rita Hills, Sonoma, Syrah, Wine Grapes
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Tags: 1989 Milz Laurentiushof Trittenheimer Felsekopf Auslese Riesling, 2001 Hafner Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 2003 Melville Vernas Vineyard Syrah, 2006 Beringer Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 2006 Box Car Rose, 2007 Moulin de Gassac Guilhem, 2007 Terry Hoage Vineyards Grenache Rose, 2008 Chateau Mas Neuf Rosé, 2008 Domaine St Andrede Figuiere Rosé, 2009 Malibu Sanity Pinot Noir
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