The aim of the Discover the Origin campaign is to highlight the impact which the origin of a product has on its flavour. The wine side of the campaign includes Douro Table Wines, Burgundy and Port, and over the last few weeks, I’ve presented a number of masterclasses featuring all […]
Burgundy
Tasted 10 Pinots one afternoon, and split them over two videos. This should have been the second installment, but it’s ended up being the first. The first (with some Aussie and NZ Pinots) is here. Laroche Viña Punto Alto El Chaparro Pinot Noir 2009, Casablanca, Chile (£16.99 Liberty Wines) Classic […]
Wine Tasting Video: Pinot Noir from Chile and France
Prestige de Calvet Bordeaux Semillon/Sauvignon 2009, France (£5.24 Sainsbury’s) Nice juicy honest wine, with slightly catty Sauvignon to the fore at the moment, good rounded guava and greengage flavours, with Semillon giving pithy weight. B (Dear Calvet – you must have a web site, let me know where it is […]
Wine Tasting Video: Four Aussies, Four Frenchies – who comes ...
Endeavouring to clear a backlog of video material that has accumulated since going to Australia in December. Here are two films featuring eight red Burgundies I tasted late in 2010…. PART 1 Henri Prudhon St Aubin 1er Cru Les Frionnes 2006 (£18.50 Adnams, Yorkshire Vintners) There’s a toffee-like note to […]
Wine Tasting Videos: eight red Burgundies
Maison Roche de Bellène Bourgogne Rouge Vieilles Vignes Cuvée Réserve 2008 (£11.50 The Wine Society) An earthy youngster, no shortage of red berry and cherry flavour, nor of tangy minerality, but maybe just a little too structured and chewy for real class. B+ Tanners Red Burgundy 2008 (Roche de Bellène) […]
Wine Tasting Video – Five ‘basic’ Red Burgundies
Torres Natureo Muscat 2009 (£5.99 Waitrose, Booths, Partridges, Soho Wines) Clean, fresh and grapey, but you get the feeling that there’s something missing – donut wine… C(-) Domaine Laroche Chablis St Martin 2009, Burgundy, France (£15.99 Liberty Wines) Classic Chablis, has the waxy lanolin and orchard fruit characters in balance […]