Strewn

Cottage Block Niagara Peninsula Riesling 2012

Aaron Colosimo

9.0

Very lovely. Tasted this on a wine tour at NOTL for my Baby's Birthday. — 11 years ago

Strewn

Two Vines Ontario VQA Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2008

Keith Haley

9.8

Different but tasty — 12 years ago

Gaja

Barbaresco Nebbiolo 1961

Lewis Chester

9.5

1961 Gaja Barbaresco. Wonderful slightly cloudy light garnet. Fresh aromas of white blossom and rose petal. Violets. Dried flowers. Bitumen. Savoury spice. Forest floor. On the palate, medium body and alcohol. The tannins are faintly detectable but totally integrated into the wine so they hard to detect. Medium plus intensity. Sour cherry, sour fig. Dried flowers. Tar and bitumen. High acidity keeps this delicate beauty powering forward. This wine is not tired or old. There's a hint of VA, but if anything it lifts the wine and adds to the complexity. I think this wine could keep for another decade without fading. Finish is long, but delicate. The sour fruit profile to the fore, with the dried flowers -potpourri. Wonderful for such a distinguished wine and vintage. Viva Gaja. NB: after an hour in a decanter, this wine is singing. Herbal, menthol and savoury aromas. Dried fruits - dried apricot, plum and lemon pieces mixed with the petal aromas, as if they were carelessly strewn in front of your very feet. Hedonistic. — 11 years ago

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Királyudvar

Sec Tokaji Furmint 2005

Sales Amy Atwood Imports

9.7

Dang I wish there was more of this shit. Established in 1997 by American Anthony Hwang (same owner of Dom. Huet) and restored in 1999. Consulting winemaker Noel Pinguet who left in 2011 made this exemplary dry Hungarian blend of 80% Furnint and 20% Hárslevelu from the vineyards of Percze, Henye, Becsek and Nyulászó (mixture of red and yellow clays as well as volcanic and stone strewn vineyards). Fermented in 100% Hungarian large oak barrels for 5 months. Oak is evident but not invasive, a whipping cream like smell to the nose with polished stone and kaffir lime, honey, lanolin, orange blossom, stone fruits a touch of botrytis and white mushroom. Acid reins here, and sticks to the tongue and cheeks like saline minerals and crushed quartz. Wish I hadn't finished it so quickly. Dang. — 13 years ago