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Over the New Year Christmas period I did a bit of comparative wine tasting with some friends who had invited us to stay. They have invited us before to stay and I’ve tasted various wines with them. I thought you may be interested to see what wines we enjoyed the most this time. There’s nothing earth shattering here, I suppose I’m just taking the chance to drink wines against each other. We tasted one ‘flight’ each night.
There were no duff wines here, all were lovely.
They are usually NZ Sav Blanc drinkers and don’t spend much, they drink only white, but are happy to give anything a go. I usually avoid SB. But not this time.
They are all tasted blind - although I know what they are when I serve them.
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So these were supposed to be the wines they would like and they did. The Bordeaux confused them and they didn’t guess the grape. The surprise to me was that the standout was the Greywacke. It was simply stunning. Easily worth the money and easily the wine enjoyed the most.
Next, Rioja night.
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The Tuercebotas was the standout here - they loved it, and so did I. A great wine -pity it’s sold out they would have bought a case there and then.
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I expected the Muga to show better, but the WS 2011 was the standout. A lovely perfume and lots going on.
This was tasted separately a day or so before as an aperitif. Nice fizz for the price.
Then onto NYE tasted in the order they are listed.
The Coop Champagne NV Pionniers.
Then the Cava again.
The Hambledon won hands down. It was a very fine bottle , but to my mind lacked the depth and additional flavour profiles of the Coop NV P. The Cava enjoyed by all the day before now tasted bland and the bottle wasn’t finished.
