Category Archives: Tasting Notes

AOC – Alsace Tasting Notes Colour: straw-yellow. Nose: fruity with light aromas and citrus and mineral notes. Mouth: the fruit and freshness, with a certain vivacity. -by Official Website

Region- South Australia Grape-Cabernet Sauvignon 奔富系列 Bin 407 卡本立蘇維翁 評分 Robert Parker 90 black-currant/cassis aromas, fine-grained firm tannins and underlying cedar/savoury oak.

AOC – Haut Medoc Grape 50% Cabernet Sauvignon 50% Merlot Tasting Notes A perfect blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, Le Haut-Medoc de Giscours benefits from the meticulous care of the team at Chateau Giscours. This wine is very pleasant in its early years, offering a pure, intense bouquet of fruit and spices and expressing… Read More »

DO – Vinos de MadridGrape 90% Tempranillo 10% Syrah Tasting Notes Cherry Red with beautiful purplish tone. Clean red fruit aromas. Well formed with balanced and long finish. 40,000 bottles produced. -by Official Website 

GrapeCabernet SauvignonShiraz Ratings *Penfolds – Special BinJames Halliday 95 Wine Spectator 92 Jeremy Oliver 93 Tasting NotesThe colour is almost impenetrable, so deep is it. There is amazingly lush, opulent plummy fruit on the bouquet; the palate has layer upon layer of dark plum, cassis and cherry fruit with equally layered soft and supple tannins… Read More »

Grape 100% Cabernet SauvignonRating & Awards James Halliday 94Bronze Medal – Decanter World Wine AwardsSilver Medal – New Zealand International Wine Challenge Tasting Notes This wine displays rich chocolate flavour with minty overtones that enhance the very intense blackberry fruit characters. The tannins are firm, but allow the fruit to dominate. –by Official Website Some… Read More »

AOC – MargauxGrand Cru Classe – 3emeGrape Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Petit VerdotRatings Robert Parker 91 Wine Spectator 90 Tasting Notes Beautifully dense garnet red.The nose opens with notes of plum, crystallized blackberries, vanilla, cinnamon, and, with air time, smoky and musky notes appear.Clear fruitiness and vigorous freshness on the attack, following through with a… Read More »

AOC – Paulliac Grand Cru Classes – 1 eme Ratings Robert Parker 96 Wine Spectator 95 Tasting Notes The 2005 Mouton Rothschild will have to take a back seat to the prodigious 2006, but administrator Philippe Dalhuin deserves considerable credit for pushing Mouton to higher quality levels over recent years. A blend of 85% Cabernet… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The 1999 Pichon Lalande performed inconsistently. This wine is a blend of 47% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 7% Petit Verdot. It offers a complex, evolved bouquet of cedar, underbrush, red currants, and spice box. The dark ruby color is not as saturated as many… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes This muscular, highly-extracted, structured 2007 reveals a boatload of tannin (unusual for this vintage). The wine??s dark ruby/purple color is followed by aromas of cassis, new saddle leather, and forest floor offered in a structured, backward, almost unapproachable format. Give it 2-3 years of cellaring, and if the… Read More »