Blindtasting May 2011, Stokka

Wine #1
Medium red with pink rim. Ripe redcurrant, raspberries, flowers on the nose. Very fruity wine with practically no tannins, average acidity and a short but warm taste. Summer wine perhaps?
Panel on Pinot Noir from the new world?

Villa Maria Pinot Noir "Private Bin" 2009, Marlboro New Zealand,
Score 16,90

Wine # 2

Medium dark red colour. Quite a dusty nose to begin with. Opens up later with pencil case some liquerice and a complex smell. The wine is drinking perfectly now with some soft tannins but a long aftertaste. Beautiful wine with some leather on the palate as well. Definitely Bordeaux?

Ch Chasse Spleen 2004, Moulis, 20€, Score 17,35 we love it!

Wine # 3

Medium dark red with brick rim.

Lots of liquerice, chocolate, mint, rose right in your face smell.

Very Ribena look a like and very commercial style with lots of vanilla and big taste. Too much for some of the panel, but good score after all. Where are we ? Don't have a clue...

Vina Ardanza Reserva 2001, Rioja, 30€, Score 17,70

Wine # 4

Deep dark red colour, smell of ceder, wood, old basement, tobacco, pencil sharpens, chocolate.

Wonderful and elegant smell.

The taste is long and velvety, very seductive and attractive.

Great stuff.

Lovely and complex.

Ch Gruaud Larose, 2000, St Julien, Score 18,60 worth every point!

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 ...

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Chianti Riserva 2016

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