Lagar de Costa Rías Baixas Albariño 2011, Spain (£11.50 The Wine Society) Delicious fresh style, with a lovely tension between perky citrus fruit and a richer, nutty peach character, with a briny edge reminiscent of the Alvarinhos of Vinho Verde to boot. S(-) Laurenz V Grüner Forever 2011, Niederösterreich, Austria […]
Gruner Veltliner
Rallo Grillo 2010, Sicily, Italy (£9.99 Virgin Wines) Quite full style, balancing fleshy guava and pear against a leaner greengage note, and adding in a touch of musky walnut. B(-) Atalaya do Mar Monterrei Godello 2010, Galicia, Spain (£10.99 Virgin Wines) Another one with a fair bit of weight but […]
Wine Tasting Video: Whites from Italy, Spain, Austria and South ...
A tasting of six wines from FindWine – nice sextet, and their videos aren’t bad either… Monte Schiavo Pallio di San Floriano Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore 2009, Marche, Italy (£8.99) Young, rich yet fresh wine, with juicy pear, guava and lychee flesh but also a stern, earthy, […]
Wine Tasting Video: Six wines from FindWine.co.uk
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 […]
Assorted Whites – Chablis, Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Gris and a ...
Recently dined with Stephen and Prue Henschke (not forgetting son Johann) at Vintners Bar & Grill in the Barossa. Henschke is best known for its red wines, but the whites – and the Riesling and Semillon in particular – are also splendid. And as you’ll see from this video, Prue […]
Henschke – a chat with Stephen and Prue
Newsflash! OK, not a newsflash in the strict sense of the word. On this occasion, it’s the name given to the newsletter from Laurenz Maria Moser V, a man whose family founded the famous Lenz Moser wine company in Austria, and who now, with his Laurenz V range, seems to […]