Been tied up with work and leisure travel and a nasty chest infection so haven’t posted recently, but here are some wines from a trip to Austria
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Perfect cold weather wine - Faugeres, Les Bastides d’Alquier 2010. Very ripe tannins now and still plenty of spicy fruit - delicious
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I hope the chest infection has cleared Pete.
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Lovely berry nose, quite warm, lovely taste rich warm fruit, very full with ripe soft tannins. Delicious, but too easy to drink.
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the great part of drinking wine is sometimes you get a bottle and it takes your breath away, this has been in a cellar for a few years, son & his partner were home last night, lamb pie so I thought this needs to be drunk, what a wine had the pleasure (of working with Michel for some years) his wines are sometimes a little dispointing and sometimes sublime, this wine was exceptional - little know fact on Michel is loves aboriginal art and is one of the most avid collectors in the world and he loves some soil in OZ, map below
12 + years old from 2012 vintage and showing beautifully
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I took a punt on this at Waitrose. I’ve never tasted Arneis before, but do have a bit of a thing for northern Italian wines. It’s lovely, dry and full bodied, and perfect with roasted fish.
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Lovely Rioja, fragrant, with a juicy dark fruit palate, still quite taut. Opened up a bit at the table, soft tannins and a good mouthfeel texture. Excellent with the beef casserole.
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Sorry for such long-term absence. Have been inundated with stuff all year. Mostly good, which is nice.
I thought Pete especially might be interested to see the wines I got to taste at a winemaker lunch on Friday in Hong Kong.
Lunches which end at 8pm are usually good…
Hope to be fully ‘back’ soon. Cheers
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Welcome back. Got at least one each those, use to love Jackmans ( the first wine of theirs I tasted) but the last bottle I opened wasn’t to their usual high standard.
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An interest few days here. Thursday being Thanksgiving so a good excuse for a US themed lunch at La Trompette in Chiswick. A lot of Ridge on our table! I was very happy that the 2006 Monte Bello delivered so much. A great selection of wine and great fun.
Then Saturday we had a Thai lunch in Manchester. Alsace and Austrian wine theme. Some of them struggled and the 1993 Geyerhof Gruner was just not right. As a recent museum release from the Wine Society I was at least able to get a refund. I was much happier with the Brundlmeyer Riesling. Some similarities to Clare Valley and austere but stunning. A great tasting.
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Mum’s 92nd birthday today so we had some family over for an early “Christmas lunch”. Drunk the last of the 2016 Craggy Range Te Muna Road - still great!
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Happy birthday to Mum.
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I’ve just seen that Nicolas Potel died in the summer, that’s a real shame. He was always great at tastings and his merchant and domaine wines were superb and great value.
RIP Nicky
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Very attractive fizz, aromatic, nice mouthfeel, toasty with appley fruit, and a long aftertaste. Very enjoyable, and great quality. I will be purchasing more.
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