Second video of a set of NZ Pinots I tried recently – the first featuring wines from Nelson, Martinborough and Central Otago is here. Yealands R3 Pinot Noir 2011, Awatere Valley (£12.99 Marks & Spencer) Youthful style, almost Beaujolais-like in its bouncy Tigger-like raspberry, loganberry and morello cherry flesh, seems […]
Red Wine
April 17th 2012 is the second World Malbec Day – or Malbec World Day, as the website has it. To celebrate this, some bright sparks thought it would be a good idea to ship some Malbec grapes from the 2011 vintage over to the UK to see how a English […]
World Malbec Day – with an English accent…
Another video featuring some Marlborough Pinots is here. Nelson Pinot Noir (Seifried) 2010 (£9.99 Marks & Spencer) A strange mix of stewed and raisinny fruit with the bitter green edge of underripeness of both fruit and tannin, rather scrawny finish. 0 Waimea Pinot Noir 2010, Nelson (£11.49 Majestic) More vibrant […]
Wine Tasting Video: New Zealand Pinot Noir from Nelson, Central ...
Pasión de Bobal 2009, Utiel-Requeña (£11.99 Virgin Wines) Reasonable fruit, juicy plum, cherry and dark berry just heading towards jammy, and with notes of chocolate and desiccated coconut, rounded, warm and spicy, but too simple. B- Torres Celeste Crianza 2008, Ribera del Duero (£12.49 Ann et Vin, Auriol Wines, Cambridge […]
Wine Tasting Video: Ribera del Duero, Calatayud, Emporda, Cariñena, Utiel-Requeña
Bergaglio Sassaia Monferrato Rosso 2007, Piedmont (₤18.60 Symposium Wines) Oh so nearly… This combines the ripe plummy blackcurrant of Cabernet Sauvignon with the awkward herbiness, rose petal and tar of Nebbiolo and friendly blackberry edge of Barbera, but then the flashy vanilla sheen of oak intrudes and takes away much […]
Wine Tasting Video: Italian reds – Brunello, Monferrato, Primitivo etc
Vallée Blanche Malbec 2010, Pays d’Oc, France (£7.49 Majestic) Reasonable violet-scented plummy fruit and soft spice, but the muddy vanilla character from use of oak destroys the delicate flavours – think of someone with too much foundation… C+ Carmen Reserva Carmenère 2010, Colchagua, Chile (£9.49 Majestic) More of that clumsy […]