Archive for the ‘Tastings’ Category
This week we had our final tasting for the year before taking apart the tasting area to make room for silly season shenanigans. The tasting was the last, but also a first for us. For some reason, we’ve never gotten around to putting together a line up of top flight Rioja before and this tasting [...]
This week we had a fascinating tasting that pitted a line up of Astrolabe wines against some of the European counterparts. Of course, different producers from the same region, working with the same varieties will still create a multitude of different wine styles. As such, a comparative tasting like this is really just a bit [...]
On Monday night we were treated to a tasting from one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded producers, Felton Road. We tried their 2011 Dry and Bannockburn Rieslings, and the 2011 ‘Elms’ and Bannockburn Chardonnays before moving on to the variety they’re most well-known for, Pinot Noir. We tried the 2011 Bannockburn and Cornish Point [...]
A bunch of lucky folks packed in to Caro’s last night for our Brunello di Montalcino and Super-Tuscan (and Chianti Classico to be completely accurate) tasting. We were treated to a really great line up of wines from the 2007 vintage. Six different Brunello producers’ wines were included along with Fontodi’s Vigna del Sorbo Chianti [...]
Earlier this week we had a great tasting of some of Bouchard Père & Fils 2010 red and white Burgundies. Following on from our Faiveley tasting last month, it reaffirmed the quality of the 2010 with another set of outstanding wines. One of the characteristics of the 2010 vintage seems to be a great sense of [...]
Last night we enjoyed a great tasting of the newly released 2010 red Burgundies from Domaine Faiveley, hosted by their export director Vincent Avenel. While blind tastings have their place, it’s always interesting to have someone like Vincent on hand to guide a an evening like this. His intimate knowledge of Faiveley’s winemaking techniques and [...]
We enjoyed a fantastic tasting of the new release Craggy Range Prestige Collection wines this week. Hosted by winemaker Steve Smith and the lovely Mary-Jeanne from Craggy Range, we tasted the new 2010 releases of Les Beaux Cailloux, Sophia and Le Sol alongside the 2008 and 2006 vintages of each wine. The chardonnay’s showed elegance [...]
