Bourgogne Rouge from Pacalet 2010 a pleasure ... The bouquet very open and ready to rock with red fruits - coulis style. On the palate very fine balance with fine juicy fruit and a very good acidity structure. The acidity is vibrant and fresh, and seem more refined than the slightly rough 2008. …
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White Burgundy sweet style … climate changes!
Recently I have had some white Burgundies with very high alcohol, sweet with notes of botrytis and a low acidity. A white Burgundy should in my view be dry, and with alcohol below 14 and preferably even lower. A sweet style Burgundy with botrytis notes are in my view a faulty wine, and should be …
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Le Organic Wine Live Tour 2011
The Organic Wine Live Tour 2011 - a cocktail of 16 organic wine producers, 8 restaurants in Copenhagen, 40 guests, a bus and some good organisers. This year the organizer Sune Rosforth from Rosforth & Rosforth was able to gather organic wine producers from Spain, Portugal, Italy and different …
First Black Trumpets of 2011
Trumpet season has started ... and yes very early this year. Saturday I forund a got amount of Black Trumpets (Craterellus fallax) - also called Black Chanterelle. They were very fresh and fine, as the season has just started, still it took a good hour to clean them. …
Rating wines – pleasure over points
Reviewing and rating wines is very controversial, and even more so than the wines reviewed. A lot of these discussions are, in my view, a result of inflated and inconsistent ratings for a lot of big non terroir driven wines. …