Prestige de Calvet Bordeaux Rouge Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 (£10-50-£11 Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons) Quite simple, but has a friendly roundness, with juicy crunchy plum, blackcurrant and blueberry flesh and a touch of toffee. But a daft price. C+ Château Brassac Bordeaux Supérieur 2009 (£11.99 selected Co-operative stores) A year older, but […]
Wine Education
Just loved this quintet… Domäne Wachau 1000-Eimer-Berg Riesling Federspiel 2010, Wachau, Austria (£11.39 Waitrose) Like a clear mountain spring, this is exhilarating, herby stuff, still a little stern and young, but with sprightly grapefruit & lemon flavours and a taut herb and river pebble character on the finish. S- Domäne […]
Wine Tasting Video: Austrian Riesling
This weekend (Sept 24-26) sees the inuagural tastings from the Three Wine Men – Oz Clarke, Olly Smith & Tim Atkin (Tim will kill me for putting him last…) at Lords Cricket Ground in London, and then the following weekend (Oct 1 & 2) in Manchester. With several masterclasses […]
Three Wine Men cometh from the east…
Welcome back after the summer break – did a bit of filming over the holidays, so while it’s all busy busy busy on the tasting calendar, you’ll be seeing several new videos up here in the near future. I did post a video on YouTube while I was on holiday […]
Wine Tasting Video: Italian reds – Teroldego, Montepulciano & Nero ...
Tesco Finest* Gigondas 2008 (£13.29 Tesco) Good mix of fresh berry, bramble and plum with a more developed fruit-cake-y raisin edge, a ripe yet fresh bear hug of a wine with a herby tang to the finish. S- Also tried the 2009 at the recent Tesco press tasting, similar in […]
Wine Tasting Video: Gigondas & Vacqueyras
Panamera Cuvée Napa 2007, Napa Valley, California (N/A in the UK) OK dark deep baked berry, but overdone smoky bacon oak, which lingers when the fruit has begun to fade, ripe but overblown and clumsy, with nothing in the way of freshness. C- First Drop ‘Mother’s Ruin’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2009, […]