Domaine Lafage
Tessellae Côtes Catalanes Vieilles Vignes Carignan 2015
Typical Carignan - rocky, flinty, brambly & funky with meaty wild notes and a touch of eucalyptus in the finish. Deep underneath that you’ll find some blackberry. Vibrant acidity and tobacco tannins. Lacks a bit purity and is quite lean on the midpalate, but works nicely with mature cheese. — a month ago
Claus Preisinger
Ancestrale Brut St. Laurent
A fine bottle of fizz, with tiny, persistent bubbles and good froth. Slightly off pink in colour with nice fruit (white peach and wild strawberries) and juicy acidity. A nice touch of mint / cardamon in the finish. This is really nice. — a month ago
Château Simard
Saint-Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend 2015
Tannic, w. high extract and good fruit. The (quite sweet) oak still dominates and the tannins have not yet fully melted in. Not a bad Bordeaux but tries too hard and somehow misses the precision and balance. — 14 days ago
Bodegas Mas Martinet
Priorat Tempta Cion 2012
Jakub had this 23 days ago
Selbach-Oster
Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Spätlese Riesling 2012
On the sweet end of a spätlese with dried apricot, some peach and honey. The acidity tries to keep up, by falls a bit short. Nice spice in the finish. Good with spicy food, a bit banal without. — a month ago
Weingut Hensel
Rotwein Spätburgunder 2015
A more sweet & full PN with quite pronounced wood influence. Slightly Skript and with caramel and spice in the lead, this worked really well with spicy Afghan food, where the sweetness and soft tannins complemented the array of spices. Standalone this is simply too much of makeup and too little of purity. — a month ago
August Kesseler
Lisbeth Rheingau Pinot Noir 2015
At first a bit reductive, but shows nice damson plum, aronia and raspberry. Juicy, charming, not overly complex but a very nice PN. — 15 days ago
Bodegas Godelia
Bierzo Mencia 2012
Still young & fruity yet with nice secondary aromas evolving (roast meat, olives, tobacco leaf). Great balance, good weight and nice length. — 21 days ago
Weingut Jakob Jung
Trocken Riesling 2017
White peach wound tightly around a core of lemon acidity. Fresh & juicy but slightly lacking the precision and steely minerality I expect from Rheingau. — a month ago
Jakub Kalinowski
An amazing wine from 80y old, ungrafted vines, spontaneously fermented. White peaches & herbs, with a whiff of Mediterranean shrub & pine wood in the hot sun. Quite broad on the nose, on the palate unmistakably volcanic, tightly wound around a core of mineral acidity, with some bitter almond in the finish and lovely salinity. The wood gives a nice backdrop to the wine’s structure. This is soo good!
#sundaytreat — 6 days ago