Vinanmeldelser

This is great Champagne, in the bottle-aged Henriot style. It's a classic Chardonnay, ripe, creamy, packed with yellow fruits, and finely balanced with a great waft of toast. A high percentage of old…

The discrete Henriot labeling is echoed in this elegant wine. Like so many Henriot Champagnes it has good bottle age, shows toast as well as light red fruits. There is a depth of flavor here, the tex…

The second edition of Chateau Rollat's Ardenvoir Sémillon includes eight percent Sauvignon Blanc in the blend, a nice addition that tightens up the mouthfeel. Barrel fermented, it's bursting with ric…

Pure Cabernet Sauvignon from the Yellow Jacket, Waliser and Pepper Bridge vineyards, this supremely rich and expressive wine is riveting for its depth and detail, and it's packed with red, blue and b…

Breggo has produced a fine, ageable Pinot Noir from this highly regarded vineyard. The wine is medium-bodied and dry, with a silky texture and complex, charming flavors of black and red cherries, col…

The softness of the 2000 vintage is reflected in this delicious, gentle, ripe wine. It is full of soft red fruits, lifted easily by the fresh red currant acidity and cranberry texture. It is showing…

This vineyard has a long, distinguished history, even before it passed into Jackson Family's hands. It's a great mountain property, yielding focused, concentrated flavors of tropical fruits that are…

This is a gorgeous, tonic and firm expression from Mt. Etna that delivers both elegance and power. Complex and deeply layered aromas of violets, rose, cedar, smoke, ash, honey and forest berry build…

Subtle toast and roasted cashew notes accent a wonderfully harmonious blend of stone fruit and citrus in this perennial favorite. It's medium to full in body and round without being fat or soft, long…

Restrained and elegant, this deeply flavored Pinot Noir takes a masculine turn with threads of iron filings, earth and herb. The blueberry and plum fruit flavors are set against drying tannins. As wi…

Bold in alcohol, with a dry, intensely textured palate, this Riesling is rich and ripe, with notes of honeysuckle, peach and even a hint of berry. It carries its girth well, with a zippy streak of le…

Silex is a flint and sand soil that suits Sauvignon Blanc well. This wine, with tight, nervy texture and crisp lemon character, is still fresh, full of primary citrus and gooseberry flavors. It needs…

The near-vertical slope of the Monts Damnés produces wines that have great elegance, style and impressive richness. This 2011 is still young, needing another year to start to bring out all the comple…

This was the final vintage Patrick Campbell fully presided over before selling the winery. It's a dense and compact wine, showing mountain tannins framing black currant, cassis, mineral, violet and n…

This is a signature wine for winemaker Cristiano van Zeller. It has all the dense structure of a powerful Douro wine, layers of fruit and acidity and a richly juicy aftertaste. It is still developing…

This opulent Chianti Classico opens with aromas of violets, black berries, meat juices and spice. The delicious palate delivers concentrated black cherry layered with white pepper, cinnamon, clove an…

So ripe and beautiful in fruit and oak, so balanced in tannins and acids, that it's hard to know whether to enjoy this Cab now or age it. Right now, it's elaborate in blackberry, cherry, currant and…

This noted Napa producer has excelled at Petite Sirah for a long time, and with the impressive 2010, they've out-done themselves. The wine comes from a vineyard block, said to be more than 70 years o…

Powerful and concentrated, this Shiraz is seemingly imbued with the essence of dark fruit, framed by well-managed oak. Cedar, mint and cassis notes are a bit Cabernet-like, but the structure is pure…

Modne aromaer av bjørnebær, rosiner og solbær blander seg godt med grafitt og vaniljenoter. Det finnes en mild, dyptgående kraft i denne vinen, men mest av alt er den fyldig og generøs, med varme sma…

Formet som en sommerfugl (papillon), er denne vinmarken en av de mest kjente i Savennières. Den er veldig rik og moden, fra en varm årgang. Med sine aprikos- og pæresmaker og sin rike tekstur, fremhe…

En modnet og fyldig vin, med flotte nøtte- og kjeksaromaer sammen med rike gule frukter. En imponerende konsentrert vin, det er en vin som kan lagres, men er klar til å drikkes nå. Skrukapsel.

Stor, fruktig, moden vin som viser en petroleumskarakter samt en rund tekstur og et hint av mineralitet. Vinen er både seig og generøs, fullpakket med fruktskall og frisk syre. Den er klar til å drik…

Fra et flott år i Douro, er dette en kompleks, imponerende vin. Den har eleganse fremfor rå kraft, drevet frem av myke men tørre tanniner og modne mørke frukter. Et snev av krydder, balansert syre og…