8/22/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Wonderful color, wonderful scent of
Red summer berries mixed with red orange on the nose. I really enjoyed that the taste mirrored the scent well. Balanced, lovely mild bubbles and just awesomly non-complex.

8/18/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

It's lighter and holds up alone much more compared to most other Syrahs. It's great but a bit anonymous, I think it's so balanced and well made that it almost just slips by. I actually recommend not matching this with food, just sit and enjoy it as it is.

8/8/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Taste: It's a chardonnay!
Very fresh and nice acidity with a full finish. Perfect to a typical Swedish chantarelle toast. Kershaw know their craft for sure.

Update: Kershaw themselves say this will be good in 8-10 years as well. I'll update the drinking window to 2031 based on that info.

7/24/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Still okay (Magnum) Raisins, lingon berries and wood, some hints of something rounder, maybe not vanilla but something that direction on the nose. Taste is about the same but some iron as well. Okay tannins and clear acidity. A bit watery, a quality French Pinot Noir should have more concentration in my taste. Still, paid about 100 euro for a 37 year old Magnum, worth it, always fun with old wine that is not dead.

4/22/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Nose: Grilled lemon, slightly tropical, very fruity
Taste: High acidity, lots of fruit, lemon and some melon.

4/1/2023 - Lnetzel wrote:

I experience this wine as on its retirement. Fruit is present on the nose but barely any left in the taste. Too much taste of wet wood and alcohol. I find this unbalanced.

1/16/2023 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

I never know how to explain the characteristics of a good Pinot Noir and this is good. The balance between berries, herbs/gun powder and oak is super yummy, both scent and taste. This is a burgundy style pinot ready to drink right away. Well done!

8/2/2022 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Drack this 9 year old (last bottle in our cellar) based on the current end drinking date (2022)
Still tons of fruit, black currant, blackberries, still good acidity, still good oaky taste with balanced tannins. This is absolutely good for probably a few more years (will edit to 2025). Too bad this was our last bottle.

7/13/2022 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Dark berries and floral with a very pleasant hint of french oak on the nose. Well balanced, not too much of anything and still enough of everything. Feels like a mix of a good red burgundy and a good southern Rhone.
Blackberries, dark raspberry, violet (or lavender) wrapped in a nice oaky blanket. Will get a few more and store for a few years.

7/2/2022 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

A bit hesitant to the experience of drinking this bottle. On the nose it was a nice Pinot. A bit of pleasant muchroomy with typical Burgundy fruit behind. The taste however was not as obvious. Pretty high acidity and good tannins but the fruit feels fainted. I'm not experienced enough to say if this is starting fading out already or if it's just "sleeping". I have one more bottle and as this is'nt a cheap wine I'm not sure I should drink now of leave for a few years.

7/4/2022 - Lnetzel Does not like this wine:

Honestly one of the worst non-deffective I've had. Slight dark fruit on the nose but the taste is only sour, stalky and fruitless. It's not worth tasting, i can't even grade this.
There is a sticker on the bottle saying Bronze in 2021 World Wine Awards by Decanter. Thats f***ed up.

3/10/2022 - Lnetzel Does not like this wine:

This was not defective but taste is subjective. Strong scent of sulfite and "horse stables" upon uncorking. Behind the high acidity there were hardly any fruit , just a strong yeasty taste, maybe some unripe cherry, maybe. After 1.5 hours in the glass the sulfite scent gradually became less but nothing else really improved, its just flat and taste like old wet wood. I'm sorry I don't have anything positive to say :/

1/26/2022 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Interesting, taste has a very juicy red currant touch or at least red berries. On the nose it's almost Beaujolais:ish although this is not co2 fermented. I didn't know what to expect and it's far from Cotes Du Nuits but I really enjoyed it. It felt "new" in a way. Hard to explain and hard to grade. Try it, it's cheap.

10/2/2021 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Decanted an hour before.
This definitely has the same qualities i usually look for in a burgundy-bottle. The ripe berries and oak are well balanced but there is a slight hint of too much green bitternes from start. After some time in the glass as well it faded.
Day 2. A bit more jammy but the green bitterness is totally gone.

Worth 500 SEK (around 50 €)? Yes, a few times It's very enjoyable.

1/23/2021 - Lnetzel Does not like this wine:

Even if there is some typical gamay hints in both scent and taste the bitterness is just a growing pain.
First sip.. okay and then 5 seconds in the bitterness takes over. After that the bitterness is so present that it's borderline undrinkable.

1/10/2021 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Decanted for 30 min. Tasted as expected, nice Rhone. I like the cold peppery taste mixed with intense dark berries. Did however turn jammy on day 2. The sharpness disappeared so this is something you drink and empty same evening.

8/21/2020 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Decanted for 1.5 hours and drank over the next 1.5h. For the price (73 USD) and not being a Burgundy pinot I had high expectations because cheaper NZ pinots (around 20-25 USD) have grown on me last six months.
Nose: Berries and spices and some strange vegetable that I can only explained as grilled corn on the cob (!). Some oak.
Taste: More spice than berries with a slight hint och chocolate, high acidity. Nice and long finish.

Ate with pasta with asparagus, cream, pine nuts, parmesan cheese and bacon. Food was actually more powerful than the wine.

Definately a good wine but I'd rather drink a Burgundy at this price point.

7/12/2020 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

First wine claiming to be a natural wine that I liked. Not as funky as I was worried about but instead clean and well tasting. Dark berries, spicy, more tannic than expected. Got some vanilla notes att first but changed my mind to caramelized/toffee:ish mild cheese. Kind of like the Norwegian "Brown cheese" or what in Sweden is called "Mesost".
Worked well with moose stew. Also tasted well a day later. Picked up two more bottles while I could find it.
Label is awesome!

7/13/2020 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Stamped "canned on 120219" but no info on vintage.
Simple, good and worked very well with fish taco (avocado, mango, cream cheese, cilantro, spring onion, chili pepper and deep fried cod in tortilla)

3/30/2020 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Got a bottle at a restaurant for my birthday and split with My fiancee. Had never heard of Michel Gros before but will never forget. I'm not that experianced but have liked most Cotes de Nuits wines and wanted "that" taste.
This is the first V-R for me but one of THE best wines I've ever tasted. Yeah, it smells amazing and has got all the herb and berries going on but the length of the taste was what stood out.
It came in two waves where the second one completely surpriced me. It appeared about 2 seconds after the first, normal, wave faded. The second one was smoother and more "buttery" and full. Very cool experiance!
Opened and decanted at the table and drank during the next 3hrs. Definately got oakier/leatherier over that time and then I got drunk but It's awesome to follow a bottle like that. Matched well with everything we ate.

8/23/2019 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Need to write something as this wine both confuses and pleases.
Solo, this wine is very drinkable. Nothing extra ordinary but good and pleasing. Blackberry/Cassis on the nose, fresh acidity and present tannins.
As food pairing goes, I tried it with Pasta Carbonara and the taste became very different. I think the cheese I used (Pecorino) made the Wine taste very metallic and mouldy, it was if the cheese suddenly turned into Gorgonzola. It not horrible but surpricing.
If I found this in a bar I'd go for a glass again.

8/12/2019 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Got to taste it at Marchard Tawse in their winery and for me it stood out among the 6 wines (or so) we tested so I got one bottle (heat wave in Europe and weeks left of the road trip). It has a Long taste and tasted so much like I want a Pinot Noir to taste. Almost a little chocolaty. Love it!

11/15/2018 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

This is only my second year drinking BN so my references are few but I must say this was very tasty Wine. Absolutely juicy and candy:ish but also some tannins and balanced acidity that I did not expect. It felt much more mature in taste than on the nose.
I getting more bottles of this tomorrow for sure!

8/26/2018 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

I'm not an experianced champagne drinker but when I got a chance to buy a bottle from my birth year in 2017 I went for it. Put it on the shelf for a year and now tried it.

So much darker amber color than anything else I've tried and the taste was dominated by honey, toast and some other mature, although this is most def not sweet. Its dry. Bubbles were very alive and small and the fruit was still strong. Acidity was less than I thought.

Glad I tried this 40+ years bottle before it went past its peak, and didn't break the bank too much either.

9/16/2018 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

While on a roadtrip in Alsace I bought this from Mr Wine Maker himself, Didier, after driving up to the house and ringing on the "degustation" doorbell. Tried a number of wines and fell for their Gewürztramminer.
There is this popping freshness with it that's hard to explain, its just crisp af. Elderberry/Liche/Tropical fruit and a slight bitter (good) after taste leaning towards the kind in red grape fruit and tonic.

I wish I bought more but the summer of 2018 was way too warm too keep bottles in the car for the two weeks left in the trip.

Thank you Didier for this impressive wine.

9/14/2018 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

I just love Gewürztramminer and this was my first non-Alsace taste so it put chile om the map for me.

Elderberry/Liche and that awesome bitter grapefruit/tonic thing going on in the back. Very refreshing and balanced.

Its basically all you can expect from this grape and at this price its almost like something I'd have home daily.

9/14/2018 - Lnetzel wrote:

Decanted for 2-3 hours before tasting.
Strong cassis and wet oak on the nose got my hopes up.

Unfortunately i think this bottle was a year a two past its peak. Lacked a bit of fruit and acid so it was mostly a tannic experiance. It was still a good wine with oak and cassis notes but for the price of $46 I expected more from a 13 year old grand cru Bordeaux.

9/14/2018 - Lnetzel wrote:

Had higher expectations since it was a 2015 but it came across way too anonymous to me. Sure, cherries and black pepper in both smell and taste, which I like, but not enough for the price. Tannins were too soft so acididity and alcohol took over. Meh.

8/1/2018 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

I enjoyed the 2013 vintage a lot and was looking forward to this 2015 but it is a bit anonymous now on release. Had to decant for an hour before proper scents appeared (peppercorn and dark fruit). Its still good bit i'm sure its better in a year or two.

12/7/2017 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

My first taste of any Tavel wine and I really enjoyed it. Smell of saphrron and light raisins, also slightly bell peppery (fresh paprika) after taste.
Matched well with vegetarian cous cous sallad containing avocado, feta:ish cheese, pine nuts and orange bell pepper.
This six year old tavel seems to have just started its post-peak time. I'd say drink now.

11/12/2017 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

I felt dark berries a a touch of walnut. This was good but too much alcohol on the nose even 30 min after poured into a glass. Drank half and the other half a day after and I must say I liked this better the day after. It was just so much smoother, less tannic and less in-your-face-alcohol. I think it is to early to drink at all right now, wait a few years.

11/9/2017 - Lnetzel wrote:

Mostly taste of plum to me, easy to drink but a bit thin, sour due to acidity bit nothing really bad.

11/12/2017 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Very much a taste of berries and some spice, maybe white peppercorn. Loved the long smooth aftertaste.

11/7/2017 - Lnetzel Likes this wine:

Scent of berries and slight bacon (?!) And tastes as its scent. Very easy to drink, soft but definately tannic. Doesn't work with salmon at all (Yes I did try). Bacon-stuff goes away after 30 min so let it open up. I might not speak proper wine but that's my experiance. Much easier to drink without food than I thought.