Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes This impressively saturated dark ruby/purple-colored wine offers up copious quantities of sweet black currant fruit, vanilla, and minerals. Suave, with sweet fruit on the attack, medium body, ripe tannin, and a lush finish, it will drink well for a decade or more.(Wine Advocate #128 Apr 2000) By Robert… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90+ Tasting Notes Backward and powerful for the vintage, this blue/purple-colored 2004 exhibits classic creme de cassis, smoke, incense, and spring flower characteristics. Medium to full-bodied, dense, and excruciatingly tannic, this impressively endowed Pauillac is built for the long haul. However, patience will be required. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2025+.(Wine Advocate #171 Jun… Read More »

Ratings by Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Black fruits dominate the moderately intense nose of this saturated ruby/purple-colored 1998. Medium-bodied, savory, and user-friendly, it suffers only from a lack of complexity. Drink it over the next 10-12 years. (Wine Advocate #134 Apr 2001) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes Herbaceous, sweet, cedary notes intermixed with black currant and barrique smells as well as some autumnal, foresty notes are followed by a medium-bodied wine that tails off in the mouth and finishes with some aggressive tannins.(Wine Advocate #181 Feb 2009) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 74 Tasting Notes Herbal, washed-out cherry and black currant notes with some dusty earth are found in this somewhat uninspiring, still moderately tannic wine, which seems to be drying out and going nowhere fast.(Wine Advocate #189 Jun 2010) By Robert Parker

Robert Parker: 92pts DOCa – Rioja Grape 100% Tempranillo Tasting Notes Dark concentrated cherry red wine, lively and potent in nose with leather, liquorice and black pepper aromas. The primary compote fruit aromas are maintained. Balance between its tannins and acidity. A full body with an elegant bitter finish. It long persists on the palate.… Read More »

Region – South Australia Grape – 100% Shiraz

Region Mclaren Vale Grape Shiraz Tasting Notes Medium to full red-purple; the bouquet is potent, with voluminous cherry/plum fruit and spicy vanilla oak. The rich, complex palate is expansive in every way – fruit, oak and tannins. All it needs is time. -93 pts by James Halliday The dense ruby/purple-colored 1997 Syrah Balmoral exhibits smoke,… Read More »

Region: Rioja DOCa Grapes : 95% Tempranillo 5% Garnacha Points & Awards: 92 points by Robert Parker 銀獎- Challenge Int’l du Vin,France 銀獎- Selections Mondiales de Vins Canada 銅獎- Decanter World Wine Awards Tasting Note: Ruby red colour. The nose is clean with balsamic notes and a noble wood aftertaste. The palate starts soft, it… Read More »

Region – Barossa Valley Grape – Cabernet Sauvignon 評分 94 points by James Halliday 銅奬- Decanter World Wine Awards 銀奬- New Zealand International Wine Challenge SILVER MEDAL – Barossa Wine Show 2012 BRONZE MEDAL – Small Winemakers Wine Show 2012 Tasting Note: This wine displays rich chocolate flavour with minty overtones that enhance the very intense… Read More »