Winetasting at Ramsvig

White wine tasting in idyllic Ramsvig, Sjernarøy just 50 min with speed boat from Stavanger.

Sancerre "Domaine de la Villaudiere 2009 by Jean Marc Reverdy
Pale straw green colour, perfect Sauvignon Blanc smell of green gooseberries and lime with fresh zingy dry taste. Perfect match with seafood, but also as an aperitif or with thai food. 10 to 20€ (Norway), P+

Cloudy Bay "Sauvignon Blanc" 2007 from Marlborough, New Zealand
Same pale colour and also lovely zesty gooseberries with something "smoky" in the back ground. Great acidity and fruit and lovely taste, but perhaps too perfect or polished...? 25€, but worth every penny.
This is a "cult" wine in certain countries but widely available in Norway...!

Cloudy Bay "Chardonnay" 2007 Marlborough, New Zealand
Medium yellow colour with long legs, rich buttery limy sweet tropical fruit on the nose. Perfect! Great fresh velvety dry taste with medium body. This is a really good new world Chardonnay, not over oaked or cooked, but moving into Burgundy land. 30€ and yes worth the money.

Saint-Aubin 1er cru "En Remilly"2007 by Hubert Lamy
White Burgundy from the side valley of Saint Aubin and one of the top producers in this village. Similar colour as the Cloudy Bay Chardonnay, but slightly paler. Great smell of wood, lime, butter and green apples. Beautiful balanced acidity and length. More punch than the Cloudy Bay and less fat due to higher acidity. Lovely stuff but another 10 to 15€ on the price label. Worth it? Your choice!

Life is tough when its summer in Norway......

Ramsvig

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Chambolle Musigny 2006 by Patrice Rion

I am still in Burgundy mood, which is a very expensive mood to be in wherever you live but especially when stuck in Norway. Luckily the selection is quite good and Friday my eyes landed on a Chambolle Musigny 2006 by Patrice Rion. Patrice Rion is a small bio-dynamically family run winery in Nuits St George and was created in 1990. According to what I was told previous weekend in Paris, Volnay and the Chambolle are the two most elegant and seductive wines from Burgundy. The wine is not unlike a Beaune Premier cru with a medium dark red colour but perhaps slightly less "fat" with a lovely delicate smell of raspberries and cherries. The taste was soft, elegant, silky , smooth, velvety with lovely fruit, balance and creamy tannins. Very yummy indeed and so is the price at around 40€, but when you need Burgundy its worth every penny! Chambolle Musigny 2006, Patrice Rion P+ and drink between 4 to 6 years old. Domaine Michele et Patrice RION, vins de Bourgogne and please

Leoville Lascases 1988

Last week was a special week for me as I received my last pay check from my previous employer. An event that required some sort of celebration with some good friends. Of the many bottles opened during that evening was a Leoville Lascases 1988. This Bordeaux wine from St. Julien is second Grand cru classee but it has the quality of a first growth. This chateau was also the wine that made me change from beer to wine as I had the pleasure of tasting a Leoville Lascases 1945 back in 88. The 1945 just knocked me off my guard and I remember thinking what a fantastic wine it was and what an experience to drink this wine from the year when world war 2 ended. I was in shock and I then just decided to enter into the world of wine. I have always had a soft spot for this chateau ever since. And to my pleasure it has been performing well at much more reasonable prices than the much more expensive first growths in the 1855 classification. Nowadays a bottle of this wine costs around 180€ while a p

Wiston BdB 2011 - England

This is a fantastic 100% Chardonnay (Blanc de Blancs) from Wiston estate in England. Below are some remarks from the estate itself and Decanter: Selected from the chalkiest and steepest part of our vineyard, Wiston Estate Blanc de Blancs 2011 is elegant and expressive, with enticing notes of white peach, apricot, brioche and crushed oyster shells. Awarded the very top prize of ‘Best in Show’ in the Decanter World Wine Awards 2019 (the equivalent of the Wine Industry’s Oscars!), this decadent single vineyard, single vintage, single varietal Blanc de Blancs is perfect for immediate drinking and will also age beautifully. “Time spent on lees after secondary fermentation pays huge dividends for English sparkling wine, endowed as it always is with high natural levels of acidity. That’s a lesson triumphantly proved by this 2011 Blanc de Blancs, with its soft mousse, lifted, almost floral aromas and deft weave of apple, tangerine and pear fruits rippled through with yeasty, bready rich

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