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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: Zieher “Fresh”
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
2006 Pierre Moncuit Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc Champagne France
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pierre+moncuit+grand+cru+blancdeblanc+brut+millesime+champagne+france/2006?referring_site=KSB
2022 Pio Cesare L’Altro Langhe Chardonnay Italy
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pio+cesare+l+altro+chard+piemonte+italy/2022?referring_site=KSB
2010 Prager Achleiten Grüner Veltliner Stockkultur Smaragd Wachau Austria
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/prager+stockkultur+achtleiten+gruner+veltliner+smaragd+wachau+austria/2010?referring_site=KSB
2012 Vina Tondonia Blanco Reserva Rioja Spain
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/r+lopez+de+heredia+vina+tondonia+rsrv+blanco+doca+rioja+alta+spain/2012?referring_site=KSB
1998 Tyrell’s Vat 1 Semillon Hunter Valley Australia
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/tyrrells+vat+one+semillon+hunter+valley+new+south+wales+australia/1998?referring_site=KSB
2017 Keller Pettenthal Riesling Rheinhessen Germany
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/keller+pettental+riesling+grosses+gewachs+nierstein+rheinterrasse+rheinhessen+germany/2017?referring_site=KSB
1997 Landrat Guyollot La Rambarde Pouilly Fumé France
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/dom+landrat+guyollot+la+rambarde+pouilly+fume+upper+loire+france?referring_site=KSB
2022 Booskloof Patatsfontain Steen Montagu South Africa
Matsunotsukasa Kimoto Junmai Japan
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/matsu+no+tsukasa+kimoto+sake+junmai+japan?referring_site=KSB
2021 Bernhard Huber Schlossberg Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs Baden Germany
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/bernhard+huber+r+schloss+berg+spatburgunder+pinot+noir+grosses+gewachs+baden+germany/2021?referring_site=KSB
2019 Montille Hokkaido Pinot Noir Japan
2019 Boscarelli Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Il Nocio Italy
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/boscarelli+nocio+dei+docg+nobile+di+montepulciano+tuscany+italy/2019?referring_site=KSB
2019 Dunn Vineyards Howell Mountain Napa Valley USA
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/dunn+cab+sauv+howell+mnt+napa+valley+county+north+coast+california+usa/2019?referring_site=KSB
2010 Pontet-Canet Pauillac France
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pontet+canet+pauillac+medoc+bordeaux+france/2010?referring_site=KSB
2020 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett Mosel Germany
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/egon+muller+scharzhofberger+riesling+kabinett+wiltingen+saar+mosel+germany/2020?referring_site=KSB
The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
The cold winter has given me a cold and if I cannot smell I travel through my wine memories. That means it is the perfect time for my wines of 2023 – the good the bad and the ugly. Or rather the wines I remember. 2023 has been a good year for me as I have tasted thousands of wines. On my mission to taste I travelled to California, Georgia, several times to Italy, France and the growing regions of Germany, and, believe it or not England.
There is no chance that I can talk about all these experiences here and I am therefore going to focus on the ones that really stood out – mostly because they were very good. There were many bangers – cult, unicorn wines that are very hard to get – amongst the wines I tased, but I also want to talk about wines that offer great value at affordable prices. This is not all though. At the end I am going to share with you, which wines I am going to drink in 2024.
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I had my last 2001 Château De Fieuzal last year… It was fresh has a rose, stil vibrant with a wonderful cire d'abeille and white flower taste. It aged beautifully. Hopefully, yours did too.
That first bottle looks epically.
Buckfast, the national drink of the west coast of Scotland. I use it to make Glogg, goes a treat mixed with a half bottle of brandy for Christmas.
sadly tondonia blanco and rosado are almost impossible to get. even in spain.
Do you sell Durand Opener e you ship to Italy?
Fantastic 2023 wrap up! My wine of the year was the 2020 Chave Hermitage Blanc (my first time tasting it). Holy smokes. I didn't know white wine could be that powerful. It was like if you could taste a box of jewels.
Also a request – could you put your point rating score with each wine in the notes? It would be cool to reference!
can you try badenhorst wines on the show?
Syrah and Cab Franc are on top of my red grape varieties. Chinon wise, I really like Bernard Baudry.
What resources have you been using to learn about sake? I've been wanting to do the same and I'm not sure where to start.
I just had a great bottle of Morey Chassagne-Montrache at Greycliff in Nassau, It was treat to take a small tour of their cellar as well.
My wine moment of the year was getting a chance to try Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2. You could literally smell the aroma of the wine over a meter away from the glass. And it was delicious! If I was made of money, I'd bathe in this stuff
More trips please, they are great. What about one to England in the spring? What about a trip to the Niagara area?
Soooo true, I have about 20 bottles that have been set aside for a special occasion that never arrived.
Frohe Weihnachten
The CVNE monopole classic rioja blanco (and the reserva) are amazing white wines that deserve a shout as well imo
Nice to see my friend sampled some wine prior to filming 🎉
Happy holidays
De l’Oree is GRAND but yeah drink that bottle sooner rather than later… You might wanna try one in the 10-15 years range
Thank you Konstantin for the amazing content produced over the year. I am still curious about the pinot noir u made inside the celler, are they still ok, or become rubbish already 😂
I deeply appreciate that you often include 'in my opinion' in your evaluations on wines. I often hear people say, 'this is the best song' or 'this is the best place to get ribs' or 'this is the best restaurant' – etc, etc, – and it rakes against my sensibilities when people state their opinions as facts and actually believe their opinions to be facts. Thank you for being self-aware enough to know the difference between opinion and objective reality and for reinforcing this awareness in your commentaries on wine. Even though I fully appreciate your expertise in wine (I wouldn't keep watching your videos if I didn't) I remind myself that my own 'indelicate' palate (I had surgery to remove polyps from my nasal cavity twelve years ago so that my own sense of taste and smell has been reduced by 80 percent) would probably perceive many of the wines you taste in a very different fashion. I have to go for very robust and maybe 'intrusive' flavors in order to taste them at all. That is part of why I love watching your videos. Your descriptions of the flavors and tastes helps to connect me to the wine and taste it from your words since I would never be able to taste it on my own palate.
Love to hear what you think about Jacky Blot wines. His cabermet francs are delicious, and amazing value. Happy Holidays.
I love all of your content, but really love that you are into Riesling. It's hard to find content and professionals that love Riesling. I am a big Riesling fan and just love hearing about Rieslings I haven't tried and how a pro feels about those I have tried. Thanks for all of the Riesling content for us Riesling lovers. I would love to see some Joh Jos Prum on the channel again. I love a good GG, but Prum is what gave me the love for wine. Cheers to a great 2024 ahead!
Living in Scotland and watching you pull out a bottle of buckfast just after talking about the best wines you tried this year did make me buckle. Try it in a negroni, probably a better use for it that way. Great selection anyway! My highlight this year was definitely biondi brunello di montalcino riserva 2011 and Sassacaia 2011 side by side tasting. Not having to pay a penny definitely made it taste even better.
Happy to hear that I'm in good company in collecting wine bottles… now that I have found purpose for them, let me share their new use … as flower borders in my gardens, punts holding waters for the pollinators
Really enjoy you content so far and you are doing a great job. May i suggest an idea for future videos?I was thinking on book reccommendations on wines,i am reading "Vino the essential guide to real italian wine" and i have to say i love the material in there,straight to the point,some history,the grape of the wine,known families that produce it till today and more from all regions. Lately id like to learn about french wines and in my oppinion books overall are a good source (not for wines but generally speaking a book can get more accurate information then the usual media).
Kind Regards from Italy,
Schoenes Wochenende
Could you pls STOP neglecting Spanish wines? 😒
Greatest wine moments of 2023? There were two. One, was the 2016 Aldo Conterno Bussia – Barolo. Not the most posh wine from this revered producer, but so full of favor; incredible freshly cut hay, and a finish so long, I was tasting in my mouth the next day. Beautiful expression. Number two, was a 1995 Fiorano – Bianco 32, an organically grown Malvasia di Candia from Lazio, one of six vintages purchased of the near mythic producer Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi. A complex wine, similar is some ways to a Gravner, with layered notes of raw honey and pear. Never tasted anything like this before.
Best wine moment for me was opening a magnum of 2004 Araujo Eisele Vineyard Syrah at Christmas dinner thinking I made a mistake leaving it for so long and it started out a young, fresh syrah with incredible depth that kept changing in the bottle the longer it sat. I was so glad to have opened and tasted that wine, it was a bottle at its peak.
Have you ever considered making your own wine? Would you consider making wine at home, or would you prefer to work with a winery to become a co-producer?
Happy to see you enjoyed Japanese Sake. In fact, it would be super interesting to have sake tasting video from a Master of Wine who isn't necessarily a sake expert. In fact a lot of the prestigious sake awards are blind tasted by EU oenologist who aren't super deep in Sake, so the thought process would be quite interesting to see!
servus last summer i drank 1996 rostaing la landonne-it has just survived the passage of time. my previous r.l. l. 1985? was greatest shiraz i ever drank!!! 1996 is so so vintage-senile now. wait not with your hermitage l,oree-if good it is kinda dryish d'yquem -mature top vintage, just sensational. dunn i deem creme de la creme of usa cab. sav.!! prosit
Can anyone help me find the tyrrell’s vat 1, any vintage, in New Zealand? You’d think it’s a piece of cake because of the proximity but just can’t find it anywhere.
Hi. I did vintage at Landrat Guyollot in 2009 and super stoked to see La Rambarde in the video. I’ve sent them the link. They make great wines and are also very nice people !!!
I have enjoyed your various programs and my knowledge of wines has grown exponentially. One suggestion. Show the labels of the wine so we can capture/ read the producers/wineries and be able t purchase them. Another method I have seen on other channels is to have the information captioned so that we can make sure we have the correct information to purchase.
Konstantin! Bitte, bitte eine reise nach Südafrika! Please visit the Ken Forrester vineyards. Just been there. It was owned and run by two german families successively for 260 years and Ken was part of the revival of quality Chenin in South Africa. The descendants of Friedrich Boot from Gotha who became the infamous Botha family and then Scholtzenhof til Ken took over. Can tell you more if interested.
Please do a comparison tasting on French and South African Chenin.
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