Life is too short to drink bad wine

Saint Aubin is one my favourite white villages in Burgundy or maybe the whole world. It is slightly less expensive than their neighbours in Puligny, Chassagne and Meursault but they always deliver high quality white wines. Especially this premier cru from the plot "En Remilly" is always a winner independent of which producer has made the wine. In my experience white premier cru Burgundies should have at least 5 years in the bottle before being consumed. This enables the wine to develop and show it's true character. When you drink a wine like this then you look for lime, butter, herbs and nuts on the nose with a big solid taste with some minerality. It will set you back 30-40€, but it's worth it.

This is a great 100% Grenache from a small area close to Priorat in Spain called Montsant. Alfredo Arribas is the producer of this wine which is only produced in 1985 bottles. This was bottle number 759. The nose has a fantastic intense and clean fruity smell. Red fruit, vanilla, roses, flowers. Super delicious taste with an elegant sweet and ripe fruit (bit like Zinfandel). A long and velvety full bodied taste with a nice acidity. Perfectly balanced and a wonderful length. The Grenache stems from 100 year pre-phylloxera vines and it's a truly great wine for 30-40 €. Try with steak. Tros Negre 2011 Alfredo Arribas Montsant

What can I say? White Premier cru Burgundy with a bit of age and from recognised producer. What can go wrong? This Meursault from Blagny has all the ingredients that you desire from a top white Burgundy: - seductive - enormous balance - great acidity - super delicious nose Every drop is a pleasure. Pure delight. Bring on the fried Gadus Morhua (skrei/cod).  Meursault 1er cru Blagny 2008 Antoine Jobard High price

This is a highly unusual wine from the Valle d'Aosta DOC (or Val d'Aoste DOC, in French ) located in the northwest of Italy. Surrounded by the Alps , the Valle d'Aosta is home to the highest  elevated vineyards in all of  Europe. The principal winemaking region of the Valle d'Aosta is found along the eastern banks of the Dora Baltea(fr, Doire baltée ) river with the city of Aosta serving as the central winemaking location. Donnas is a local co-operation who has created this silky and well balanced  Alpine Rosso. A blend of 85% Picotendro (the local name for Nebbiolo) and the rest split up between local varieties Freisa and Neyret. This wine complements its demanding tannins from the Nebbiolo grape with pure red fruit, provided by the other two components. Grown in rocky soils on steep slopes, this Rosso is considered to be the Barolo or Barbaresco of Vallee d’Aosta. Aged for at least two years in 25 HL oak casks, the wine gives a beautiful nose full of ...

Richebourg is a small appelation with Grand cru status in Burgundy in the commune of Vosne Romanee. Only 7,4 hectares with a total of 26.000 bottles produced by different producers. Prices vary from 300$ per bottle to 24.000$ bottle. I bought this bottle together with some friends from a local wine shop in the east of Norway. The same shop also rented us 4 Burgundy glasses !!! What a service! Let it be said at once: this is a stunning wine! Just super delicious and enormously complex. The 2001 vintage is drinking perfect now. Medium red colour with rusty red rim.  The aromas are just wonderful with many variations like: red meat, cellar, wet wooolen socks, chocolate, dark cherries and burnt wood. The taste is just as great and I have never tried such a powerful Pinot Noir. Silky and elegant tannins with a super sharp balance and very long and decadent  aftertaste. Great great stuff! Stunning really and worth every penny of the roughly 300$.... At the time of writi...

This is just a gourgeous Pinot Noir made by the magician Sean Thackrey.The grapes are from the Marine County in California and the wine has quite a medium to dark red colour to be a Pinot. On the nose is earthy with ripe red fruit, some chocolate and tobacco. Hints of dark cherries is also present. This is a big, solid and very smooth Pinot with a beautiful balanced fruit. It's also an unusual Pinot due to the density and full body. It would be difficult to believe it's a Pinot if it was served in a blind tasting. It's thus perfect if you want to play a trick on your wine friends. Price starts at 40$ and the 2008 can still keep for many years.

This is just a glorious and cheap Riesling from Rheinhessen in Germany. The producer, Hans Olivier Spanier, has made a fruity, fresh and elegant Riesling which has an elegant acidity and balance. some hints of minerality and grapefruit as well. Medium yellow colour and a bouquet ofripe apples, sitrus and peach. This wine will go well with fish, seafood, asian food and sushi. A bargain at 150 NOK or just 8€...