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2010 Dominio Pingus Ribera del Duero Flor de Pingus
4/20/2019 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Absolutely stunning, the 2010 Flor de Pingus is truly a wonderful effort. It needs a lot of time in the decanter and then in the glass but after about an hour or two the wine opens up and provides brilliant red fruit, raspberry, thyme, sage, kirsch and subtle lavender. The palate follows through nicely. It is wonderfully integrated and provides a lot of intriguing complexity despite nine years of age. The tannins are present as is the acidity. The length on the finish just goes on and on. This wine will continue to develop for another (couple of?) decade or more. It is a total stunner tonight already. That's for sure.
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2011 Miani Friuli Colli Orientali Rosso
4/20/2019 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points
The wines from Enzo Pontoni made under the Miani label is a mythical and very very hard to find producer. Just like most wines from Enzo Pontoni, the 2011 Miani Rosso provides an amazing nose, actually it is somewhat of masterpiece. Despite eight years in the bottle the wine is so full of flowers and fresh herbs I am amazed. After some time in the glass, a secondary layer full of red fruit, subtle leather, chocolate and citrus zest emerge. This is a nose to die for. The palate follows through in the same lovely. It is profoundly balanced and integrated, but still there is enough texture and structure to have this effort last for a number of years. As I have written many times before, all Mianis are good but the reds are always on a path to being great. This is another bottle proving just that. (score is 95+)
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2008 Sine Qua Non Grenache The Duel
4/20/2019 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 100 Points
This lovely and almost brutally pleasant acquaintance is a blend of 82% Grenache, 14% Syrah and a tiny sprinkle of 4% equal amounts of Viognier and Roussanne. All fruit was sourced from Manfred Krankl's own vineyard "Eleven Confessions". The wine was fermented with 32% whole cluster and aged in 15% new French oak.
As you can tell, these hard facts make a lot of promise for what is to find once tasting... Perfection. Full stop.
As with most wines from this star produces, the 2008 The Duel Grenache will raise opinion and feelings no matter who tastes it.
It is extremely powerful.
It reveals a profound complexity after some time in the glass.
It has an elegance that is hard to compete with.
This effort has spent a long time on oak. Inspired by the "LaLaLa wines" from Guigal, Manfred Krankl produces these exquisite wines only from fruit out of his own Eleven Confessions vineyard. The nose offers up a rich creamy fruit full of deep burgundy velvet boysenberry, strawberry and strawberry. Actually the world's all berries are found in this nose. After about an hour or more in the glass, a complex layer of cacao, sweet licorice, mint, a whiff of Eucalyptus, flowers and saddle leather emerges. After several hours in the glass, the wine is still alive. It never shuts down or become "simple"...
But do not be mistaken - there is a ton of elegance added to this wine as well. The whole effort is just astonishingly well balanced. There is not a hard edge to be found. Thick deep velvet is the best way to describe the nose.
The palate actually fits pretty well to this description too. It is massive, but extremely well balanced and integrated. Everything is in place and there are no "oak related" tannins to speak of. There is enough texture and structure to make this effort last for another couple of deacades is a guesstimate based on tasting SQN wines on 59 different occasions since 2009. Perhaps needless to say, the length on the finish just goes on and on with a seamless integration.
It is very hard for me to find anything that is "better" compared to this wine - from a more objective than subjective point of view. I honestly cannot find one single flaw here. Hence, a perfect score it is.
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