The Australian wine industry is in dire straits and the economic crisis is not the only one to blame. Australia produces too much wine, the Australian dollar is too expensive, the image of Australian wine is damaged by cheap labels such as Yellow Tale and Rosemount and the industry in recent years failed to renew itself or diversify. Nearly 8,000 > Read more …
2006 Clos Mogador Priorat Nelin – Spain, Catalunya, Priorat (10/9/2009) A marked improvement since last year: complex nose of wet stones, ripe fruit, spicy honey and flowers; on the palate ripe fruit, sweet honey, balancing citruslike acidity and a distinct taste of minerals, with a just hint of spicy oak. Quite exotic, but not tiring. Different, very tasty white by > Read more …
2007 Clos de l’Oratoire des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape – France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (10/9/2009) Coffee, a bit of cinnamon, a hint of liquorice and a whiff of ripe dark fruit on the fresh nose. On the palate lots of ripe dark fruit, intermingled with sweet spices and refreshed by good acidity. Feels a bit diluted in comparison to most other > Read more …
In his first e-mailnewsletter for subscribers of eRobertParker.com the influential American wine critic Robert Parker (left on the photo) writes very positive about vintage 2009 in France. Parker writes that in thirty years that he visited France in the autumn he has never experienced better weather than during the critical harvest months of August, September and the first half of > Read more …
2006 Château Mont-Redon Châteauneuf-du-Pape – France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (9/25/2009) Exotic spices, red fruits, kirsch, serious tannins and acidity, becoming more prominent with breathing. Quite young, a more refined style than most, not a blockbuster type, but enough stuffing nonetheless; needs several years of bottle age to integrate and gain sweetness of fruit. (Tasted over the course of four > Read more …
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Our Euryanthe wine-tasting group (10 people, among them WijnIdee editor Jozef Schildermans and collaborators Michiel Carpentier, Max Rive and Herwig Janssen, the author of these notes) recently got together for a very interesting , educational and fun evening . Corton Charlemagne at age 7 is too young but with all these premature oxidation (‘premox’) fears , we needed to check > Read more …
Eight silver medals were awarded to wines during the Dutch National Wine Contest 2009, three more than in 2008. Gold medals have so far never been awarded, so a silver medal is currently the highest price in the Dutch National Wine Contest. A silver medal stands for 82 to 88 points in the international 100 points system for wines. (Gold > Read more …
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2008 Van Volxem Saar Riesling trocken – Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (6/2/2009) White fruit, spices on the nose; good balance between sweet fruit and citruslike acidity on the palate, with a dollop of sweet, spicy honey and impressions of slate. Good qpr. (tasted on the 2nd day after opening). (89 pts.)
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