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Viogner and Condrieu… Coleman and Cherry Today was quite a boring winter day, I spent my morning reading about Don Cherry and his trumpet, an  awesome musician. I remember his music when I was in love with Ornette Coleman "Something else" "Tomorrow is the question" and "The shape of jazz to come" beautiful albums where Don Cherry show his beautiful talent. After that i bought some of his music and a Movie where he did the sound track Holy Mountain made by Alejandro Jodorowsky. When i was back home i started to cook and I told to my wife to go and buy a bottle of Viogner around 50 bucks, she came back with a Domain Georges Vernay Viogner Le Pied de Samson 2011. It was perfectly aromatic, peach, apricot and mushroom character on the nose mineral and tasty with lovely oily texture, some herbal, mint, sage; for sure not a reductive at all, very expressive wine but really enjoyable. Apparently Le Pied De Samson it is a lieux-dit located 300 meters above th
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Chardonnay and Pinot noir, France and California on south appellation Macconais and Santa Barbara county... Last night I had a dinner an event in Melbourne called Borrowed space. I had two wines a Chardonnay From Macconais a Poully fuisse by Verget in the plot "Terroir de Vergisson" which means limestone soil and produce wines with good balance, thanks to begin grown at a higher elevation than is usual for Poully Fuisse. Only 20% new wood. Citrus, floral and orchard fruit, got some more saline notes and more stone fruit character with some air. Excellent clarity and persistence. Texture in the palate concentrated medium weight with a long finish in palate with toasty and buttery perception. The next wine was Byron vineyard in Santa Barbara county in California. A sustainable farming methods is the key of the philosophy of the winery, all the picking are hand made form a small plot of vineyards in the finest Santa Barbara.  Maritime climate with a mix of continental;
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BRUNELLO NOT A BRUNELLO  I never post on my personal diary tasting, a wine which I didn't enjoyed but this time I a need to do this… I was in a rush this afternoon, I stop at the bottle shop to buy a bottle of wine and bring to a friend of mine … So I saw some Barolo was a bit expensive and went to the shell on Tuscany section I saw this Valdicava and I know James Suckling like this one. I never like his way to describe the wine so i never take him serious but this time a said to myself let me give him a chance, INFACT I didn't enjoyed this Brunello di Montalcino completely over extracted dark fruit lots of sweet spice and lots of oak tannin I'll say a wine like Michelle Roland doing in France… So Mr Suckling i was just on impression you don't like real wine or perhaps you really didn't get the means of world terroir… So please stop to infected the web with your recommendation… Because this Brunello doesn't have nothing to do with Sangiovese Grosso and Brun
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CENTRAL OTAGO NEW ZELAND  Central Otago is the coolest wine region and one of the most south southerly wine regions in the world.   It's a continental climate with hot summer and cold winter and hot summer days and cold nights. The local mesoclimates turn out to be suitable for a Pinot Noir. Most winery a less than a decade old with the successful Pinot Noir joined by Pinot gris, Sauvignon blanc, Riesling and Chardonnay. Felton Road single vineyard Calvert in Bannockburn in Central otago 2010 was a bit over extract with pronounced nose of red fruit quite ripe and some beautiful red berries but quite tight wood spice and hint of leather. On the plate quite classic new world Pinot Noir structure long savory with a slightly sweetness mask by the oak. Felton Road  Beginning with meticulous site selection and vineyard design started in 1991, Felton Road's story is one of refusal to compromise. A strict 100% estate policy with fully organic and biodynamic viticulture (D
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CHABLIS The climate in the Chablis region is mostly influenced by the continental climate of the Saône region.  The average annual temperature is around 11°. It is not uncommon for the region to experience minimum evening temperatures of -20° or -25° in January, and evening temperatures below 0° at the end of April and the beginning of May. Favorable daytime temperatures of above 10° begin in mid-April and end around the beginning of October. The town of Chablis lies in the valley of river Serein,  surrounded  by hills, in the best sites it is limestone overlaid with a  layer of Kimmeridgian clay, which is very rich in marine fossils.  Lately I enjoyed this small vigneron Lauren Tribut his Cote de Lechet 2011,was quite interesting. The wine was immediately appealing, crispy and lively, with lovely fruit, lemony aromas, spice apple flowers, smokiness, toasty flavor and direct minerality with shellfish, limestone and button mushroom good balance with a silky finish and preci
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Montlouis Les Choisilles 2009 Grape varieties: Chenin Blanc (Pineau de Loire) Byodinamic system, none of chemicals have been used in the vines, just working on the soil with organic matter and prepared compost. Density 6600 ceps per hectare. Age of the vines 30 to 90 years old. Income are 43 hectoliters for hectare. Soil are silex, clay, limestone and Tuffeau named les Choisiless. Training system Guyot and gobelet. Harvest manual in different times on the field. Today I had this superb wine from Montlouis sur Loire in Touraine district in Loire region. Quite gold in color not really clear and lucid with a complexity viscosity. The nose was youthful but to use an oximoron was developing... note of honey, mushroom, candid citrus character, ripe yellow fruit good balance with a present acidity musk by some residual sugar. Petrol nose, flinty and limestone some undertone of charcoal. Mouthful with deep length and complexity… Need some age to show is best but