In early February I served my co-members of my tasting group Amovinum a barrel full of surprises – without pity of course: as always we tasted everything double blind. One of the flights was a [...]

The reason for this meeting in restaurant Folliez in Mechelen was the visit of a (hopefully) future American Master of Wine. Reason enough to taste a nice series of older wines. We began with a few beautiful white Burgundy’s with in between them a couple of top California Chardonnays: Kongsgaard and Marcassin. Nice comparison, though the flight was dominated by the 2001 Coche-Dury Perrières. Even the …

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Inter Rhône, the association of wine producers and wine trade in the French valley of the Rhône, runs a new advertising campaign in the Belgian press. The advertisement mentions all AOC’s in the valley of [...]

This is the second part of a tasting of 1998 Châteauneufs. The first part you’ll find on vinotopia.be as tasting number 112. Again the general quality of the wines from this great year sprang forward. [...]

Amovinum tasted the following wines: [1] – 2006 Sauvignon Blanc – Dog Point Vineyard (Marlborough – ) [2] – 2007 Sauvignon Blanc – Mount Nelson (Marlborough – ) [3] – 2007 Sauvignon Blanc – Cloudy [...]

Amovinum tasted the following wines: [1] – NV Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs – R&L Legras (Champagne – Champagne) [2] – 1996 Brut Grand Cru – Egly-Ouriet (Champagne – Champagne) [3] – 2006 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc [...]

Amovinum tasted the following wines: [1] – 2005 Riesling Nackenheim Rothenberg Grosses Gewächs – Gunderloch (Rheinhessen – ) [2] – 2004 Dorsheimer Goldloch Riesling Grosses Gewächs – Diel (Nahe – ) [3] – 2005 Mittelheim [...]