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 five year vertical of La Copa Santa, a well known wine of the French AOC Côteaux du Languedoc (in Languedoc-Roussillon), run by the ever amiable > Read more …
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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Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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 the Rhône… except two. That Château Grillet, one of the smallest French AOC’s (3,8 ha) has been omitted, we find somewhat understandable. But the advertisement > Read more …
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. For me the Clos du Caillou Réserve was the absolute best, narrowly followed by some other bottles (1 of 2 bottles Pégaü Cuvée Réservée, Vieux > Read more …
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 Bay (Marlborough – ) [4] – 2007 Ram’s Hill Sauvignon Blanc – Mount Nelson (Marlborough – ) [5] – 2002 Meursault Genevrières – François Jobard > Read more …
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 – Domaine Marcoux (Rhône – Châteauneuf-du-Pape) [4] – 2006 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc – Clos Saint Jean (Rhône – Châteauneuf-du-Pape) [5] – 2006 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc – Domaine > Read more …
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 St Nikolaus Riesling Grosses Gewächs – Peter Jacob Kühn (Rheingau – ) [4] – 2001 Sangenis i Vaqué – Vall Por (Priorat – ) [5] > Read more …
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