12/26/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Wonderful Chardonnay. Taking on fantastic colour. Deep, rich intense fruit, but still acid and wonderful length and structure. Drink now

12/27/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Beautiful wine. Would not age this any further tbh. Brick red..... interestingly opaque (? Unfiltered), but dense and packed full of secondary aged flavours

12/27/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Very good. Colour is deepening and definitely starting it's secondary journey, with some richer notes coming through now. Would say though still 5-10 years in it still

11/6/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Very fine. Elegant and beautifully balanced. Finely integrated light oak with its zingy citrus core fruit. Great length as expected

9/21/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Very good drinking window right now, with a balance of primary fruit and secondary flavours. Tinges of brick red starting to appearing at the edges. Some oak and exotic spice on the nose...a core of dark stewed fruit, blackberry crumble also coming through.

Medium weight.

Not a jammy, blockbuster Barossan type of shiraz. Nice tannin structure, some licorice and herbaceous savouriness, pepper and a backbone still of tart dark fruits. Good length as well. Be interesting to taste on day 2+3...think the fruit will open up a little more. 90+

8/17/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Still very light in colour and fresh and youthful even after 20 years. Just starting to evolve the tropical, honey complexity....but certainly not full blown yet if that's what you're waiting for. Nicely balanced though...feels like it could still go 2 more decades and still hold some freshness

8/12/2022 - Alan Partridge Likes this wine:

Really very good. 5 years of bottle age. On the nose it has a waxy, lanolin intro much like the best of Australian Rieslings/Semillons...but with extra fruit/butterscotch glimpses of the fruit within.

On the palate...delicious....an exotic citrus burst upfront...but then some lovely guts of textural palate coating syrupy key lime, pineapple, tropical fruits....and some length and pithy sherbet acidity to end. I'd do this all over again very happily for the price.

7/30/2022 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Fresh citrus nose, but bit of Apple strudel/lemon meringue pie in there also. Similar follow through on the palate....drank with 4 years on it. Palate, similar profile as the nose, some custard apple and some texture/subtle creaminess. Really very nice, interesting wine. Good with seafood.

7/29/2022 - Alan Partridge Likes this wine:

Thought this might be over re: age

But lovely colour in the glass...brick Reds coming through certainly, but still some youth in colour and on the nose : dark fruits, blackcurrant. Some pepper and spice and light cigar box also on the nose.

Soft tannins. Really pretty attractive still with enough blackberry/raspberry fruit and still some balancing acidity. Medium length, some lingering herbaceous background. Not a blockbuster...but pleasantly surprised with this!

1/16/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Picked this up at the cellar door for about £10. Having tasted it...a bargain. This is seriously well made wine for the price. Has the base gooseberry and acid of well made sauvignon, but mixed with sweeter notes of elderflower, honey and blossom....blended really well. Wouldn't look anywhere else for well priced, serious Pouilly Fume.

1/9/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

I liked this. Admittedly picked up cheap as a bin end, but was pleasantly suprised. Decent nose: waxy, citrus and light floral. Taste: good balance of acididty and flavour(good food wine). Predominantly citrus/lemony (almost reminded me of Ozzy semillon in style if thats any help) but with a bit of buttery/oily feel to balance it.

1/5/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Hoopla! that's all I can say about htis fine vintage... Got the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, but hell man what happened to the rest.... So I made a new years resolution to go for odd rather than even vintages and i started with the 1999...The lights were dazzling, the music was fine and the honeys were doing their thang! And I had this moment. The waitress came up to me and asked Cristal or Dom?? SheeEEeet!! I had this honey next to me, she so fine. And I had to act quick. So the man with the plan, my buddy in a hurry, my better half, said DOM 1999! The M to the C to the D to the P. Thta's my beeeatch!!! But the only thing I really hate is that the bubbles get up my nose. So Dom can you make the next vintage flat???

1/5/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

I had such expectations for this wine. California's finest??? The great and the good of the sunshine state? What the HD! If I pissed blood from a catheter it would taste better than this sorry excuse for a wine. I could have crashed headlong thorugh the vineyard dragging a rabid cat and expected a better outcome. Do you realise that I split up from my wife? dO YOU?? aND i CHOSE THIS WINE TO CELEBRATE THE EVENT. And what did i get??? A sorry whiny, nagging excuse of a wine. JUST LIKE MY WIFE!!! Tasting like a slag heap, sour, bat-faced harridan. She got the 1959 Latour and I got you!! Is this what the alimony is going to be like??? I HATE YOU!!! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!!!!

1/5/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Had this at a beautiful summer luncheon with special friends. Immaculate presentation of the bottle and once opened the cork displayed satisifying aromas of quince and sandwood. ephemeral in an indefinable way. I must of spent 5 minutes with my nose in the glass just taking in the magnificant aroma. It took me back to the halcyon days at Oxford, with Marcus, punting, those lazy , carefree, gay days!.... If ever a cork knows its attendant wine this is it, like Anthony and Cleopatra; expressive,ellusive, daring (but brown), hiding it's true nature but still daring to suggest, wispering it's secret, the voice that dare not speak, the love that hides it's true intent. And then we poured the wine!!! Those legs! The way they hung on to the glass and slowly, ever so slowly slid down the rim. Oh the rim! Brown but still puckish; Adonis stood proud upon the field of battle! Strident, stalwart, blessed. A statuesque muse for the drinking classes. Michelangelos David , writ in all his glorious sensual might. And then the taste. Oh the taste. The ambrosial nectar of the gods spilled on to my ever welcoming lips. Ophelia and Oberon danced their whimsy across my enchanted palate...oh to taste....oh to suffer the torment and the pleasure. Salty but sweet, I drunk like a greedy giddy choirboy, enraptured, spellbound, a whispered longing in the vespers, like the first throws of Debussy on an untrained mind.

1/5/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

This is Hollywood baby!! Beverley hills, high rollers, exclusive know what I mean? I really felt like I dunno, that I had, well... kind of made it when I got a bottle of this. Showed Marcello.....man!! the boy was stunned, still can't see outta that left eye though! Thought Gina was going to have kittens!! she loves a bit of the red stuff dude! Mesmerised...totally freaked out. It felt like the time when I saw Paris Hilton or was it Texas I can never remember. Bottles like this don't come around everyday. Just a pity it was corked and tasted like shoe polish....ahh well can't win em all. Still great wine LOVED IT BABY YEAHHHH!

1/5/2010 - Alan Partridge wrote:

Enjoyed with Deborah and Sandy. A great bottle! good weight in the hand and solid feel. When opened and poured a magnificent aroma of coca and spice flooded the room. I had a Proustian momemt of being back in the nursery; earthy, farmyardy (in a good way! of course); and baby talc (YUM!). Cherries (Morello), chocolate, Moroccan spices, midwest bison, ecuadorian cigar, a hint of slovenian oak, victoria plums, David Coulthard and Candian maple (WOW!). One crazy party!!!! As for for the wine I have no idea as I was very very drunk