Blindtasting March 2011 Ganddal

Wine # 1

Medium dark red with brown rim. Shy smell of old cherries and wood. Strong alholic taste with good length and acidity. Not brilliant but drinkable.

Panel in doubt, talks about Priorat and stuff like that.

Torres Gran Coronas Penedes, 144 NOK, Score 16,20
Good ordinary wine

Wine # 2

Clear dark red colour with purple rim.
Smell of dark berries, cherries and vanilla. Not very unlike the last one.
Well balanced taste filled with cherries and good acidity and quite a long balanced aftertaste.
Panel in doubt about where and the grape. Still Penedes or maybe now in Priorat?

Vinha Pana 2005, Beiras by Louis Pato , NOK 345 stiff price for the quality, grape is Baga. Score 16,80

Luis Pato wines official website

Wine # 3

Medium dark red with brown rim. Long legs. Dried fruit and wood, figs.
A big solid wine with dry aftertaste. Perhaps lacking a bit of fruit?
A very nice wine but wood is too dominant perhaps?
Panel misses out completely, didders between southern France and Spain...

Vigna Colonnello 1999 by Bussia Soprana, Barolo
NOK 479 and one of the top 100 Barolo's to be drunk before you die.....Score 17,60
Sito Azienda Agricola Bussia Soprana

Wine # 4

Medium red.
Smell full of chocolate, mint, coffee and cherries.
Good balance and acidity with along velvety aftertaste with hints of dark berries.
Great stuff!
Panel again totally lost ....

Castillo Ygay 1978 by Marques de Murrieta, Score 18,50 and price 770 but amazing 240 months in american oak...75% Tempranillo from 500m in Rioja Alta...

Shocking tasting by the host who managed to fool such experinced and well educated panel...A bit like the first game of the season in Bergen.....?

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 ...

Condrieu 2014 by Cuilleron

In the steep hills north in the Rhone valley there is a small appelation which is called Condrieu. Here the rare grape of Viognier is grown. A grape not well known to many people but which gives a fantastic wine when grown here. It is a full bodied white with a very pronounced and overwhelming smell of flower, peach, apricot, tropical fruit etc. The taste is dominated by ripe fruit, medium acidity and a long finish. Very good to outstanding quality. This is not a white for the fainthearted as the style is rather opulent. But with 2 year old Comte it is the perfect match. Cuilleron (manager) has many different styles. The wine is pricy and rare to get hold of. Condrieu 2014 "La Petite Cote" Yves Cuilleron ca 30€ or 400 nok

Chianti Riserva 2016

Castello de Farnatello has a basic Chianti and a Riserva on the market. Both of them are good value for money. We tried the Riserva the other day, in two different glasses; Riedel Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The Syrah glass is more closed at the top (to the right). The colour of the wine is medium red and the nose discrete smell of cherries, leather and nuts. Attractive acidity with a firm well balanced taste. This is perfect with lamb for ex. 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot has been added to the wine as well and that gives it more body than the pure Sangiovese. And which glass works best? The Syrah glass enhances the smell much more than the CS glass in which the wine seems much more closed. Chianti Riserva 2016, Castello de Farnatello Ca 230 kr or 13euro

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