Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Le Haut-Medoc de Giscours 2006

AOC – Haut MedocGrape 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 the… Read More »

Nevis Bluff Central Otago Pinot Noir 2008

Grape 100% Pinot Noir Tasting Notes Producing a wine with redcurrant, thyme and spicy aromatics with wild blackberry and red fruit flavours. It displays a nice flow and drive with great length. We have aged this wine, so it is ready to drink now. -by Official Website

Barco Negro Reserva, Douro DOC 2008

DOC – Douro Grape 30% Touriga Franca 30% Tinta Roriz 40% Touriga Nacional Rating & Awards 16.5 / 20 by Jancis Robinson 16 / 20 by Vinhos de Portugal Tasting Notes Colour : Nice Ruby Color. Nose : licorice and quince. Palate : Lively attack followed by tight tannins. Average length finish. -by Official Website… Read More »

Penfolds Grange 2000 (1.5L)

Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2000 (1.5L) Region Barossa, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra Variety Shiraz Cellar 25 years (2000-2025) Alcohol: 14% Ratings: *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 93 Jeremy Oliver 87 James Halliday 96 Wine Spectator 89 Tasting Notes: Colour : Deep (bright) red crimson. Nose :… Read More »

Pirie “Estate” Tasmania Gewurztraminer 2008

Grape 100% Gewurztraminer Ratings & Awards The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2009 92 Tasting Notes Which is slightly drier, with cooler nights and warmer afternoons. Allowing the juice to remain in contact with the skins for a short time produces a wine which is both exotically spicy, yet dry and delicate on the plate.… Read More »

Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 2001

AOC – PaulliacGrand Cru Classes – 1emeRatings Robert Parker 89Wine Spectator 94Tasting Notes A blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc, the opaque purple-colored, chunky 2001 Mouton-Rothschild does not possess the finesse and stature often achieved by this first-growth. It offers a tell-tale cassis-scented nose, and a monolithic, medium to full-bodied… Read More »

Chateau Haut-Brion 1997

Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes This light to middle-weight Haut-Brion exhibits an evolved, sweet red and black currant nose with notions of scorched earth, minerals, and tobacco. Although not big, it exhibits fine ripeness, harmony, and elegance, velvety tannin, and sweet fruit presented in a charming, open-knit, evolved format. The wine may develop… Read More »

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou 2005

Ratings By Robert Parker 97 Tasting Notes The 2005 Ducru Beaucaillou is a 10,000-case blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon and 33% Merlot (they used to produce 18,000-20,000 cases). It is an exceptionally powerful wine with a dense purple color, superb intensity, and a beautiful, sweet nose of spring flowers, raspberries, blueberries, graphite, and creme de… Read More »

Chateau Cos d’Estournel 1999

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes The dark ruby-colored 1999 Cos is a supremely elegant effort. The wine offers notes of dried Provencal herbs, smoke, licorice, black cherries, and cassis. This medium to full-bodied St.-Estephe is cerebral, intellectual, and refined, but lacking soul and hedonism. Anticipated maturity: 2004-2018.(Wine Advocate #140 Apr 2002) By Robert… Read More »

Chateau Lascombes 2007

Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes A brilliant effort for the vintage, the 2007 Lascombes is an impressive, larger-scaled wine with beautiful notes of incense, spring flowers, blackberries, cassis, and subtle spicy oak. Full-bodied, rich, and concentrated, with no hard edges, this voluptuously textured Margaux can be drunk now or cellared for 15 years.(Wine… Read More »