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Barolista: Live From Gaston Winebar - Part Two
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Monday, 11 May 2015. Live From Gaston Winebar - Part Two. Next up a wine from a natural wine maker - yes I know - but you have to challenge yourself sometimes.:-). 2013 Brouilly V.V., Jean-Claude Lapalu. From a fresh opened bottle it starts of with a funky, chicken yard nose that within minutes transforms into a much more friendly nose with notes of cranberries, herbs, paint, pine resin and a hint of saw dust. I like this nose. Now of to a wine tasting!
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Barolista: Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter I
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Saturday, 2 May 2015. Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter I. When you´re gonna start, why not start at the top! As Clive Coates writes - "one of the top dry white wines of Bordeaux: Laville from La Mission and Haut-Brion Blanc being the only rivals". In 1948, Claude Ricard took over the estate and managed every vintage up to 1988, 40 years of wine making. Impressive! I´m here - let us talk. 1986 Domaine de Chevalier. The 29 year old Domai...
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Barolista: Another Great Tasting Dinner With Krug, Prüm, Dominus, Palmer, Heitz & More
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Thursday, 23 April 2015. Another Great Tasting Dinner With Krug, Prüm, Dominus, Palmer, Heitz and More. It was time again for our yearly tasting dinner in our tasting group. Due to mixed up dates and work obligations, we were down to five. Well, more wine for us! I was responsible for the bubbly section and I had collected three different versions of Krug Grande Cuvée. It was a good start.:-). Is this what a mature Grande Cuvée should be like? Heaven th...
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Barolista: Four Bottles From Paolo Scavino
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Thursday, 14 May 2015. Four Bottles From Paolo Scavino. Håkan opened these bottles at our latest monthly tasting. 2009 Barolo Cannubi, Paolo Scavino. A medium deep, open nose with notes of cool red and black cherries, dry leather, dried mushrooms and a fine floral note. A bit on the light side. Good though. 2007 Barolo, Paolo Scavino. 2005 Barolo Bric dël Fiasc. 1999 Barolo Bric dël Fiasc. A warm, finely tuned nose with some haunting notes of maturity a...
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Barolista: A Parker Calibration
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Wednesday, 29 April 2015. This is the third time Roderick arrange a Parker Calibration. Fun as always - thanks! The concept is easy enough - 6 bottles decanted and presented to us blind. The only thing we now is that the big man have scored them 90, 92, 94, 96, 98 and the hight and mighty 100p. Our task is to figure out what wines have been and poured, score them ourselves and make a guess what score Parker have assigned each wine. Ok, here we go. The t...
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Barolista: Drinking Tonight - 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint-Jacques,Dupont-Tisserandot
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Wednesday, 13 May 2015. Drinking Tonight - 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint-Jacques, Dupont-Tisserandot. A few days of work, and this was a fine bottle to start the extended weekend with. And again, two glasses head to head. 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint-Jacques, Dupont-Tisserandot. The Riedel Vinum glass showed more sweetness and the Zalto displayed a more high toned herbal scent. Both very, very good. View my complete profile.
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Barolista: What Will My New Tasting Project Be...?
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Saturday, 25 April 2015. What Will My New Tasting Project Be? My next project is White Bordeaux - the Prologue coming soon. We have a winner - my clues were obvious to easy. :-). This bottle will be yours:. Well, now you have the chance to guess! And win a bottle of wine! I will let you have some clues. Not trendy at all. The wine in question is described as "sensitive, fragrant, capable of having surprisingly long lives". 25 April 2015 at 12:48. 25 Apr...
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Barolista: Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter III
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Monday, 11 May 2015. Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter III. Château Paradis Casseuil takes its name from the official name of the main plot of vines,"Vignes du Paradis" ("Vines of Paradise"), and the name of the commune of Casseuil in Entre-Deux-Mers. The cepage consist of 60% Semillon and 20% each of Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle. There is no aging on oak. The vinification takes place at Château Rieussec. 1995 Château Paradis Casseuil.
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Barolista: Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter IV
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Saturday, 16 May 2015. Exploring The Forgotten Side Of Bordeaux - Chapter IV. Larrivet Haut-Brion has 11,5 ha of white wines. This wine is made of 85% Sauvignon Blanc and 15% Sémillon. The vinification takes place in new barrels and the wine spends 11 months in new barrels on its lees before bottling. 2010 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Keller, Keller, Keller.& More Keller! I got an invitation ...
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Barolista: Live From Gaston Winebar - Part One
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A blog dedicated to good, great and gorgeous wines! Monday, 11 May 2015. Live From Gaston Winebar - Part One. The newly opened winebar in the NK house needed a visit. I opt for - to keep with the ongoing project - a glass of Sauvignon Blanc, in the shape of. 2009 Sancerre Galinot Silex, Gitton. This need some swirling to open up and when in does it reveals interesting aromas of warm grass, ripe lemons, yellow apples and a hint of butter cookies. No cat pee here! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I got ...