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Chestnut dinner
Martin's House
Tasted October 17, 2012 by G_H with 342 views
Introduction
Everyone bought a wine that was supposed to go well with grilled chestnuts, so basically wide open field. Super interesting blind tasting!
Flight 1 (3 notes)
Red
2008 Tokara Director's Reserve
89 points
Loads of herbs and spices, autumn leaves, fall notes, leather, chocolate, pencil shavings, rather light but well balanced and long finish
Red
2006 Bodegas Huarpe Guayquil
89 points
Fall notes and hay, some primary fruit notes, dark chocolate, blood and slightly mineralic, good balance but a bit shorter than the Tokara 08 directors reserve.
Red
1993 Antinori Tignanello
88 points
Very metallic, red and blue berries, black tea, loads of tannin still left, iced peach black tea, roasted hazelnuts, rather light but still very pleasant. i'm quite impressed and really like it!
Flight 2 (2 notes)
White - Off-dry
2001 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
80 points
Vanilla, peach, banana, huge acidity, really HUGE!! rather light in the palate. This is really off at the moment and I think this will need 4-7 days of staying open in the fridge to open up or another ten years in the bottle, really in an off phase right now
White - Sweet/Dessert
1976 Albert Gessinger Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese
89 points
In the beginning I thought it was corked but that flew off after a little while. almond paste, loads of botrytis, slighly oxidative but not bad. Acetate. Not dissimilar to a Sauternes, very interesting.