Vinanmeldelser

This vineyard designate, showcasing the oldest vines from the oldest vineyard in the Walla Walla Valley, piles on the details of earth, grape and barrel. There's cassis, blackberry and fig in generou…

Blending distinction with sheer pleasure, the bouquet opens with scents of green, black, and Kalamata olives, sage, forest floor and slate. Those aromas translate remarkably to the palate, which is a…

The grapes come from three vineyards: Georges III in Rutherford, Tokalon in Oakville and Stagecoach, up on Atlas Peak. That helps explain the wine's beauty. It's pure California, cult-style Cab, soft…

Although this is marked nonvintage, the fruit all comes from 2004. It is made from old vines, giving richness and ripeness, and a generous white fruit character which fully compensates for the very d…

One of Bründlmayer's specialities is the lyre training system, which opens out the canopy to get the maximum exposure. It gives a wine that has extra intensity, flavors of white currants vying with l…

Kiona's ice wines are legendary, and this latest is as excellent as any they've done. Butterscotch scents invite further exploration. As the wine coats the mouth, it comes into lush focus with brown…

Flinty elderberry and crushed blackberry are the dark-fruited aromatics that pervade the nose and palate of this wine. There is a smoky smudge to the velvet tannins, making this intriguing and elegan…

A spark of flint leaps out of the glass, followed by green plums and Conference pear. That stony touch also tempers the concentrated body and runs from start to pleasantly long finish, ending in a pl…

At this point subdued, this wine promises future pleasures with a ripe, rounded but precise character. Right now, it's citrus that shows, with ripe lemon zest and some grapefruit. Underneath riches o…

A lifted lemon-scented nose of peach gives and impression of ease and lightness. The palate, however, lays on generous sweetness to focus on ripe juicy peach notes. There is a huge concentration of f…

Peach and honeysuckle already have a notion of honeyed sweetness and ripeness on the nose. The palate boosts both fruit and floral notion to the top, where honeysuckle and rose petal notes meeting wi…

Pure notes of red apple rise from the glass, promising freshness, tart briskness and mellow fruit. A hint of shortbread conveys body and generosity. All of this comes together on the rounded palate t…

Earthy berry aromas are complex due to side notes of crushed leaves, charred meat and burnt wood. This single-vineyard Malbec is juicy and loaded with energy as a result of racy acidity. Plum, wild b…

Big aromas of blackberry, leather, turned earth and white mushroom set up a bright, layered palate with fresh acidity at its core. Floral, exotic red-berry flavors are spicy and in sync with each oth…

The tart but tropical charm of passion fruit plays around the nose before more zesty citrus notes become apparent. The palate is generous with juicy peach, yellow pear and citrus. The vein of lemon f…

The ethereal, aromatic lift of this wine is addictive. It appears like the sublimation of fresh, ripe apple. The dry, brisk palate adds streaks of lanolin and earthiness to that profound, glistening…

This is Ferreira's top vineyard that also produces the legendary Barca Velha in the best years. This rich, spicy, solid wine has excellent structure, ripe tannins and juicy black fruits. Even more, i…

Dried orange rind and saffron notes lend a spicy, exotic flair to sweet, silky honey and marmalade flavors on this beautifully concentrated Riesling. It's delicate in frame, yet intensely penetrating…

Rik og rund, fullpakket med gule frukter og ananassmaker, dette er en varm, overdådig vin som kombinerer toast og frukt. Det er riktig at det finnes en viss mineralitet, men denne Meursaulten nyter s…

Vinmaker Elisabetta Geppettis Saffredi er delvis en kultvin og delvis en mainstream blockbuster, ettersom vinen nyter verdensomspennende berømmelse, men få kjenner den godt. Denne årgangen er myk og…

Denne tolkningen av Sangiovese Grosso er ren, polert, moden og elegant. Den åpner med mørk konsentrasjon og bærnoter av solbær og kandisert kirsebær, og deretter dukker romkake, lær og tobakk opp på…

Denne riservaen er silkeaktig, fast og polert, med lyse fruktnyanser av villbær, mandelskall, cola og vedvarende mentoltoner. Munnfølelsen er lys og frisk, med en veldig fin, jevn tekstur. Støvete mi…

La Magia Brunello er en dyster, maskulin vin fylt med tobakksrøyk og sigarkasse. I bakgrunnen er toner av tørket frukt, bjørnebærsyltetøy, crème de cassis og sviske. Den viser fantastisk intensitet o…

Denne ikoniske italienske vinen fortsetter å vise det beste fra Toscana, som den trofast gjør år etter år. Kvaliteten er åpenbar, takket være rike noter av sjokolade, svart kirsebær og krydder som er…