Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Quarisa Treasures Shiraz 2008

Region: Langhorne Creek Grape: 100% Shiraz Points & Awards: 金奬-Challenge du Vin France 2009 銀奬- Finger Lake Int’l Wine Competition 2009 Rated 4 stars by WINESTATE Tasting Note: Colour: Intense red purple Bouquet: Huge lifted fresh flavours of spice and pepper with ripe cherry berry fruit balance with cedar oak Palate: Big long intense mouthful… Read More »

Reserve de la Comtesse 2006 (375ml)

AOC – Pauillac 女爵 (二級莊) 副牌酒 Grapes- 46% Cabernet Sauvignon 32% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, 9% Petit Verdot 評分 Robert Parker 89 GAULT MILLAU 17/20 Tasting Note: This beautiful, velvety, seductive effort offers sweet black cherry and black currant fruit intermixed with notions of forest floor and roasted herbs. Luscious, fruity, savory, and long- by… Read More »

Chateau d’Argadens 2007

AOC – Bordeaux Superieur Bordeaux Superieur Grape 63% Merlot 32% Cabernet Sauvignon 5% Cabernet Franc *One of the properties of Sichel Family, owner of Chateau d’Angludet and co-owner of Chateau Palmer in Margaux area.

Chateau Palmer 2004

AOC – Margaux Grand Cru Classe – 3eme Grape Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Petit Verdot Ratings Robert Parker 95 Wine Spectator 91 Tasting Notes Purple-ruby color of very high intensity. Expressive nose of very ripe dark berries, bracken, cinnamon, wood, peony, violet, smoke, and fresh mint. Perfectly ripe fruitiness, full, tender tannins and lots of… Read More »

Champagne Mansard Brut Premier Cru NV

AOC – Champagne Premier Cru Grape 60% Chardonnay 40% Pinot Noir Ratings & Awards Wine Spectator 88 / Silver Medal – Vinalies Nationales Tasting Notes A sustained golden yellow robe, a luxurious attack that is supple and pleasant offering magnificent dried fruit flavours (figs, white grapes). Full bodied and fine, in the mouth it is… Read More »

Penfolds Grange 1990

Grape Shiraz Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine  Robert Parker 94 Jeremy Oliver 97James Halliday 97 Wine Spectator 97 Tasting Notes Colour : Medium-full red/purple colour Nose :It is a beautifully weighted and concentrated wine combining very intense, ripe plummy aromas with smoky vanillin oak. Palate :… Read More »

Pirie “South” Tasmania Pinot Noir 2008

Grape 100% Pinot NoirRating & Awards – James Halliday 89 – Robert Parker 90 – Wine Spectator 88– 93 points by The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2009– Silver Medal – International Wine Challenge, London Tasting Notes Fresh red cherry and strawberry fruit; very attractive wine for immediate consumption. -by James Halliday The 2008 Pinot… Read More »

Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2003

AOC – PaulliacGrand Cru Classes – 1emeRatings Robert Parker 100Wine Spectator 96Tasting Notes A modern day version of the 1959 Lafite, the 2003 Lafite Rothschild was bottled in mid-May, 2005 after achieving 12.9% natural alcohol ¨C hardly an astonishing figure given the vintage?ˉs weather conditions. A combination of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 3% Cabernet… Read More »

Chateau Latour 2007

Ratings By Robert Parker 92+ Tasting Notes The 2007 Latour (the first wine made in the newly renovated cellars) exhibits a dense ruby/purple color as well as a sweet, expansive bouquet of black fruits and spring flowers interwoven with a striking minerality. The wine??s dense, medium to full-bodied flavors are surprisingly evolved, with soft tannins,… Read More »

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou 2001

Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes Somewhat light-bodied for a Ducru, with a 1999-like personality, this blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc is a forward, medium-bodied, pretty effort revealing notes of cranberries, black cherries, cassis, and earth. Full of finesse, but lacking concentration as well as depth, it should… Read More »