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Connections to Wine

English - Wine, Food, Bordeaux
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Connections to Wine · 3W ago

Domaine de Chevalier vertical spans three decades

Tasted blind, and oh what surprises! Wines all opened about one hour before the 10 am tasting on April 3, 2012 First 6 wines from the 1980s – the 1984 was nothing short of delicious, and totally unexpected! Wine 1. Looks like from the earlier 80s. Transparent. Lovely nose of earthy pine forest. Airi
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Connections to Wine · 3W ago

Bordeaux 2011: tasting notes from barrel

Bordeaux 2011: a mixed bag where one can find some red wine gold nuggets - Calon Segur, anyone? VCC? - but the whites are your best bet.
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Connections to Wine · 4W ago

Tasting 80+ wines per day, blind: an intense and enlightening experience

It was Thursday late evening, 26 April 2012. Just after my fourth day straight, tasting at least 80 wines blind per day for Decanter Magazine. The occasion? The World Wine Awards. I was part of a phalanx of some 150 judges from all over the world – from Hong Kong and Vienna to Palm Beach [...]
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

Thomas Duroux of Château Palmer on the 2011 vintage

Château Palmer did a very fine job with the 2011 vintage, and the second wine, Alter Ego, was also quite good. In this video, director Thomas Duroux, explains the challenges of the harvest and the vintage.
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

The harlequin vintage: video reporting on Bordeaux 2011

The harlequin vintage… in videos. Check for further postings over the next few days!  You will soon be able to go directly to my notes by clicking on various appellation links once I get all my notes online on Bordeaux 2011, but a word on how “harlequin” this vintage is. First off, because of the va
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

Tasting blind in real time at Château Branaire Ducru: 4 April 2012

Kudos to Chateau Branaire Ducru in St Julien for providing us with internet access as we sit and taste blind 34 wines from the northern Medoc. Since I liked Calon Segur so much, I am starting with the St Estephes today… And will post notes live so to speak, or at least just after. I [...]
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

Bordeaux 2011: C’est difficile

As Mick and Keith wrote in the late 1960s – at the height of the golden age of rock and popular music – you can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you get what you need. I had to try hard to get what I needed from Bordeaux in this first [...]
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

Bordeaux 2011: Est-ce difficile?

April 8, Sunday. Back from Bordeaux and will create a new webpage with all the tasting notes this long weekend. The dry whites were often terrific, including Pavilion Blanc de Margaux and especially the whites of Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion, more successful to me at least than the red count
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

“Latin” Rieslings sell better than ever in Germany: with Maurice Barthelmé of Albert Mann

Now this was a fun coincidence. I was at ProWein in Düsseldorf earlier this month (March 2012) and noticed Maurice Barthelmé of Domaine Albert Mann, which is making some of the very best Rieslings in Alsace today, and the 2010s are brilliant. Most interesting to learn that Alsatian Rieslings, fuller
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Connections to Wine · 1M ago

The appeal of Burgundy 2010: tasting notes aplenty and a video intro

Greetings wine lovers. Spring is upon us. Flowers blooming. Increased daylight. And a perfect time to taste good wine. Having just returned from Burgundy, it is safe to say that 2010 is going to be a fine vintage for both reds and whites. I had a chance to compare some 09s with10s in red, and [...]
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