for 2

1)selbach-oster zeltinger schlossberg riesling spatlese 2008 (mosel



2)deTrafford shiraz 2007

later

2 tart

loosen riesling kabinett bernkasteler lay 2008

grany smith led ... bit disjointed ... needs some time to come together. better after 1.5 hr ... but who wants to wait ... POP!

nice half doz

1)loosen L 2008
BANG! great great value

2)domaine de la brunely vacqueyras 2003

ruby; kirsch, chinese herbs, long pepper, wet clay; cherry, plum, herbal, said pepper, bit of soy, slight chalkiness; ripe tannins; juicy acid; a bit rustic?; medium bodied; long; BANG!; courtesy of the contrarian.

3)henschke lenswood abbott's prayer 1997
BANG!(-)

4)lucien barrot CDP 2005
er, ...



5)loosen urziger wurtzgarten spatlese 2007
BANG!

6)cloudy bay sauvignon blanc 2008
a friend's rather nice housewine ...

details later

hard labour day

1)ricasoli rocca guicciarda chianti classico riserva 2005
ruby; plum, cherry, violet?; cherry, raspberry, plum, bright?; fine tannins and very nice refreshing acidity; medium bodied; longish; 13.5%; BANG!

2)st cosme cote du rhone les duex albion 2006
consistent with earlier notes

3)morgenhof premier selection 2001
consistent with earlier notes

4)loosen graacher himmelreich kabinett 2007
consistent with earlier notes

... ok.... i'm just lazy today

nothing new but still nice plonk and nice company ... BANG!

nuther riesling

dr loosen graacher himmelreich kabinett 2007
gold/straw; simple nose, lime rind, very little peach, ripe white grape?, someone said pear;off dry ... sweet but not cloying, grapey, lime, some golden delicious, not complex but with a nice almost plump mouthfeel (less complex at this stage but broader than the berkasteler lay 07), mineral/chalky; very, very nice juicy underlying acid especially at the very end of each gulp; long ... and there's this subtle fresh peach flavour that goes on and on; for what it's got now, balanced; 8%; kept chucking it down and swallowing hard :-); BANG! price creeping up. pork burger and roast pork (too lean). see the 06.

friday night

st urbans hof ockfener bockstein kabinett 2007
straw; low keyed citrus (lime/orange), wet stone like, someone said jasmine ; off dry, citrus, hint of red delicious, mineral/chalk, savoury/ almost salty?, hint of toast?; lovely juicy acidity; medium length, grapey citrusy off dry finish, dried apricots?, refreshing; 8.5%; BANG! nice one. with some grilled cod and chicken ... food was not happening.

bits and pieces

1)nicolas potel chablis 1er cru montmains 2006
straw; citrus (lime/grapefruit?), slightly floral, nectarine; follows onto palate, a little ripe?, bit rich for a chablis; lotsa minerals/chalk and acid (suck on some lemon rind); longish finish with the aforesaid lemon bits; BANG!

2)carlos serres onomastica 1995 (rioja reserva)
ruby, still dark; cherry, plum, vanilla/wood, spicy; quite rich with dark fruit, woody vanilla; lots of fine tannins with just enough acid so i didn't gag; it don't taste like a rioja, almost like some medium weight barossa!?; medium/big bodied; medium length; 13.5%; POP! ... but for the price, maybe POOP!



3)dr loosen bernkasteler lay kabinett 2007
straw; lime, peach, grape!; more than off dry almost sweet (but no where near the 06), lime, grapefruit, oats, red delicious, underlying chalk and stone, fleshy kind of feel; very nice juicy mouthwatering acid; long; you keep wanting to fill the glass; 8%; BANG! woud be nice to see it in a coupla years.

4)pikes clare riesling reserve 2002
deep straw/ gold; lime, cumquat, stone, dried apricots; follows onto palate, maybe some golden delicious?, hint of kero; has softened ... aging and mellowing nicely; acid still there to keep things fresh though; longish said dried apricot/citrus rind finish; BANG!

nightcap

at a friend's.

1)chateau gaumaran 2002 (medoc ... supposedly merlot led ... dunno)

none of us had seen one before. this sample came via hongkers. a search on the net revealed very little, even then in french.

seems like this is one insular label with a serious seige mentality......some weird (albeit badly translated) stuff on a site featuring this stuff:

Natural demand side of our French wine and safeguard our AOC and our know-how!

Technologies French wine is much more healthy and hygienic than s'autorisent producers in the southern hemisphere.

There was no difference between a Chilean sauvignon, California or New Zealand.

The New World wines are wines chemical which is a price while our French wines express their soil and a way of working.

The New World makes use of oenological practices (outlawed by Europe) who try to artificialize wine and transform a name of a universal standard drink "high technology".

Prefer the cork and at the same time, safeguard the ecosystem of the Mediterranean oak forest cork!

The use of cork has been certified by a favorable carbon (test implemented by Oeneo bouchonnier).

dull blood red, bit of bricking; bit of plum initially, then slowly revealed more exotic? and savoury scents, mushroom, damp earth, pickled jalapeno, soy, capsicum, latter 2 intensified as time went by; almost salty palate of said soy and capsicum/chilli (there's even a prickly aftertaste like the real thing!); fine tannins and moderate amounts of acid; textured mouthfeel like some of those riberas; longish; 12.5%; POP!,barely, didn't gag. don't even know if this is a typical bottle. anyway, a curiosity.

2)dr. loosen uziger wurzgarten riesling kabinett 2003

last of 2 dozen obtained by my aforesaid friend, rest were polished off when fresh.

gold; citrus (more oranges than lime/lemon), pear, apple (red not green, my 13 yr old friend opined), honey, kero; more than off dry; fruit follows onto the palate, orange blossom honey?, someone said pineapple, oatmeal, chalk/mineral; mouthfeel plump, rich but not flabby; enough minerality and acid to prevent things from decending into lolly water territory (03 had a sweltering summer); long; 8.5% BANG! nice one.

liebfraumilch, not

had both of these recently. next-to-basic teutonic rieslings.
1) dr loosen bernkasteler lay riesling kabinett 2006
light yellow (citrine?...wanker); spritzig, lime rind, apple and a little kero on nose; follows through onto palate with some ripe pear (?); off dry is very nice but this one is just a little too sweet but luckily there's some nice acid which attempts to balance that; palate a little "disjointed" ie. starts tart, sweet and limey/ rind and then abruptly turns grapey, flabby, sugery and cloying (like 2 different drinks)...weird; light/medium bodied; medium length; need to give this one another try. FIZZLE!

2)dr loosen graacher himmelreich riesling kabinett 2006
much better ... again light yellow (well, the place i had it was dimly lit); lime/lemon rind and apple on the nose (but somehow not an emphatic as the one above); this follows through onto palate plus grape juice with some nice acid to balance things off; sweeter than off dry but bearable; light/medium bodied; long; balanced; nice indeed. BANG! [only just, bit too sweet].

both at 7.5% ...

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