After a week of little sleep, lots of work and long journeys, this wine was one of the highlights: The Te Mata Coleraine 2000. I had included the blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot and 19% Cabernet Franc in a workshop at the Belgrade Wine Salon. Since 1989, Coleraine has been a…
This bottle was the second one I had from this wine that year - the Schoelhammer 2007 from Hugel. The Riesling is from a prime section of the Grand Cru vineyard Schoenenbourg behind the village of Riquewihr. The Schoelhammer site occupies no more than 6000 square metres and is farmed biodynamically.…
Fantastic tasting and inspiring talks with Lucie Peyreyre de Nonancourt and Edouard Cossy of Laurent Perrier in Wiesbaden yesterday. The Champagne House presented their Grand Siecle Iterations No. 25 in the standard bottle, No. 23 in the magnum. We also tasted Alexandra 2004 and some other exciting stuff. The Iterations have each…
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