Penfolds Icon and Luxury Wine Launch 2012.
Today I got to taste these, we will be launching an offer in the next few days. All I can say at this point is what great wines they were, and as is the Merchants phrase these days depending on pricing what a greta buy they could make.
The wines were utterly delicious. The Bin 169 an new wine for Penfolds could make a great purchase indeed, with its deep intense nose with hints of root vegetables, Indian spices and blackberry jam.
Château Montrose 2011 vintage tasting April 2012
Just doing a quick tasting of Penfolds “Grange” 2006. So lithe and limber for such a muscular wine.
And we have some magnums if you need them…
Buy Rhône before the Chinese do!
Jancis Robinson MW
The wines of the Côte de Beaune for once match the wines of Côte de Nuit, with lovely Premier Cru wines around Beaune showing extremely well. Negociants around Beaune, such as Chanson, and Louis Jadot have made excellent wines.
The 2010 growing season in Burgundy followed what is becoming an increasingly familiar pattern. In essence, there were climatic problems throughout the summer (cold, wet weather in June led to poor flowering and resulted in millerandage and coulure, more rain in August caused widespread rot) until September - like the proverbial last minute cavalry charge - again rode to the rescue. Increasingly, in this undoubted age of climate change, growers are telling us that this weather pattern often produces the best wines. It is becoming beneficial to have a cooler June, July and August (even if they are sometimes, also, wetter) and a fine, warm, but not hot, September to finish photosynthetic and physiological maturity. In that way, the grapes reach full ripeness (generally 12.5 - 13.5% natural alcohols in 2010 at our domains), yet retain freshness, purity and acidity. The problem will arise when, inevitably, the cavalry decides to have a lie-in one year!
Crops were down on 2009 by anything between 25-40% - due to the poor flowering (some producers reported entire bunches having berries of between 4-6mm in size!) and savage elimination of unripe and rotten grapes.
This was no easy ride for the growers, but the resulting wines are some of the finest we have ever tasted, at this stage, in Burgundy. Terms like “classique” and “tres Bourguignon” have been frequently expressed. Comparisons with previous vintages are difficult, but growers offered a combination of the best of 2008 and 2009, others 1993 (although, viticulture and vinification in the region are leaps and bounds ahead these days). The wines are generally of delightful quality, both red and white defy generalisation and categorisation. Words like “sweetness”, “ripeness” “purity”, “energy”, “drive” and “precision” have littered tasting notes.
We are fortunate to work with some exceptional producers in Burgundy and, to a man, their talents are fully on display in 2010.
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2010 Burgundy En Primeur Offer
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well— Virginia Woolf
Just added to our Bin End Sale. French wines from Beaujolais, Burgundy including Chablis, the Loire and the Rhone. Italy and Spain have been added too.
We have just added South Africa and Argentina to our Bin End Sale.
(Source: frazierswine.co.uk)
To our followers and readers we have just added the first of our wines to our Bin End Sale -The Last Drop.
To save of the last drop of some of your Australian Favourites
We are just putting the final touches to our Bin End Sale or as we call the last drop.
However we have put some of the wines on our website at sale prices. If you are a fan of 1/2 bottles we have some at greatly reduced prices.
Just check out our great value half bottles of wine.
