Blindtasting February 2011

Wine # 1
Dark red, brown rim. Smell not very attractive and perhaps too old? No fruit left on the taste. Medium body and length but certainly over the hill? An old Bordeaux again Robert?

Amarone 1997, Casterna Pasqua, 15€, Score 14,80 and to be forgotten

Wine # 2

Dark red with brown rim, dark berries, cherries, coffee, dark chocloate and jam. Fruity with lots of body not much acidty and medium long and slightly bitter taste. Another Amarone ?

Amarone 2000, Il Sestante by Tommasi, Score 17,40, Price 250 DKR

TOMMASI VITICOLTORI GRANDI VINI AMARONE RIPASSO RECIOTO CLASSICI SPUMANTI BRUT

Wine # 3
brilliant dark red with purple rim. Fresh red berries. Apparant acidity and lots of fruit on the palate. Silky. No tannins and long well balanced taste.

Easy to drink but difficult to guess. Pinot Noir ? No! Totally lost then.
Grapes are Corvina 60% and Rondinella/Corvirone 40%....
Pieropan? What the f*** is that?

Ruberpan 2003 by Pieropan, IGT near Valpolicella, 18 GBP Score 17,80
Yes we like it!
Pieropan: Ruberpan

Wine #4

Great red color, lots of tar and tobacco, leather and ok. Big solid taste, fruity but still rough and noticable tannins.

Not sure where we are? Not really Bordeaux taste although Bordeaux nose. Back and forth but with some guidance Super Tuscan and Flaccianello came up.

Flaccianello della Pieve 2005, IGT, Tuscany, 2005 way too early to drink this one although it was late in the evening.....
Fontodi azienda vinicola nel cuore del Chianti Classico - Panzano Toscana

Comments

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 ...

Wine # 2 Blindtasting Ganddal

Deep dark purple colour. Dark berries, cherries and mint chocolate. Full bodied with soft tannins. Reminds me of an Amarone.. A very nice wine indeed. Panel is way out as it is from the Rhone valley. Gigondas 2009 by Guigal Score 17.60 Ca 20€ or 220 NOK

Bordeaux- Le prelat du Ch. Pape Clement 2004

This is one of two second wines of the famous and expensive Ch. Pape Clement in Graves. Although young, 2004, this wine drinks really well already if you put it on carafe a couple of hours before consumption. Dark red colour, with a very attractive smell of blueberries and dark berries, its a full bodied wine with firm but nice tannins that goes best with some food. 2004 although not the best of vintages, keep surprising me with good drinkable wines at affordable prices, because from 2005 and onwards there is a big step up in prices.... Grapes; Cabernet Sauvignon 60% and Merlot 40% Price around 20€ P+

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