Winetasting Tuesday 15 September 2009

Had a pleasure of being invited to a special winetasting last night downtown Stavanger. We went through 6 white and 6 red wines. Here are the notes from the white wine tasting;

Wine#1 Xarmant Txakoli 2008 from the Basque district in France

Pale yellow green colour with peach and tropical fruit and a very acidic taste. A mix of four grapes out of which petit and gros manseng were two of them. Quite a novelty, but not really something for the cellar...(P)

Wine#2 from Piemonte in Italy (Gavi di Gavi 2005) was unfortunately corked

Wine#3 Pietramina Etna Bianco Superiore 2005 from Sicily

Pale yellow green colour, smell of oak and banana, nice acidity and well balanced taste but somewhat "flat" indicating warm climate. Sre its warm in Sicily even at 950 m above sea level, but a very expensive wine. (P-)

Wine#4 Chablis 2007 by Christian Moreau

Straw yellow colour with hint of green. Smell a bit closed not giving away enough info to work out the grape (+ no sea or minerals). Firm acidic taste. (P)

Wine#5 Chablis 1er cru "Vaillons" 2007 by Christan Moreau

A step up in quality due to more body and complex nose. The very acidic 2007 vintage should give wine for long term stoarge and this should be one for the cellar. (P+)

Wine#6 Meursault "le Limozin"1994 by Michelot

Expressive yellow colour with a "fat" smell and glycerin like taste. Some sort of dry sherry on the palate indicating a old white Burgundy. Lovely stuff, but sort of food goes with this wine?

Meursault in Burgundy

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