Wine90

Bravo Wine Spectator Top 100

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Wine Spectator Top 100 I’m a week late on the Wine Spectator Top 100 wines, they went ahead and released the results before telling me and I’m mighty peeved. Luckily, they have redeemed themselves by placing 4 Italian wines…

Castel de Paolis Muffa Nobile 2005

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Castel de Paolis Muffa Nobile 2005 Castel de Paolis Muffa Nobile is one of my personal favourite Italian wines as it typifies the changes in Italian wine (especially white) and perhaps best exemplifies the phenomenal increase in quality coming…

Vacqueyras 2006

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Vacqueyras 2006Vacqueyras, one of the Southern Rhone’s baby Chateauneuf du Pape wines is starting to compete with Gigondas as the second wine of the area. Now starting to move away from it’s rough and rustic image, Vacqueyras is taken…

Matt Skinner The Juice 2010

Matt Skinner The Juice 2010 Matt Skinner The Juice 2010 is no ordinary wine book. Matt Skinner has created a new kind of wine handbook that has been sadly missing from the UK shelves and one every avid wine fan (who shops at the supermarket!) should not be without. How many times have you gone…

Sottimano Barbaresco Pajore 2004

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Sottimano Barbaresco Pajore 2004 Sottimano Barbaresco Pajore 2004 is one of the wave of fantastic 2004 Barbaresco wines. Sottimano Barbaresco is rightly lauded in Barberesco circles but still remains under the radar here in the UK mostly because of…

La Brancaia Il Blu 2006

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk La Brancaia Il Blu 2006La Brancaia Il Blu 2006 is one of the best Super Tuscan wines around and with a growing reputation it won’t stay on my QPR doozy list for long. The 2006 vintage is sumptuous. A…

Alois Lageder Cabernet Sauvignon Cor Romigberg

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Alois Lageder Cabernet Sauvignon Cor RomigbergAlois Lageder is one of the major players on the South Tyrol wine map producing a large and varied quantity of quality and affordable wines. In it’s fifth generation, the latest Lageder is one…

Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2010

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2010 Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2010 was popped under my door this week and is the 33rd edition of one of the UK’s most popular yearly wine guides. The guide is packed with…

Fontanafredda Barbera Briccotondo 2007

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Fontanafredda Barbera Briccotondo 2007 Fontanafredda Barbera Briccotondo 2007 is a real surprise. The gorgeous house of Fontanafredda has spent the last 10 years rapidly improving their entire range, their once iffy reputation now soundly banished. However, Barbera Briccotondo 2007…

Chateau Haut-Bages Averous Pauillac 2001

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Chateau Haut–Bages Averous Pauillac 2001 Since 1978 (2 years before I landed) the famous Chateau Lynch-Bages has been producing “Averous” as the second label of the property rolling out 10,000 cases annually. As a second label it gives the…

Le Due Terre Pinot Nero

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Le Due Terre Pinot Nero I get into everything late. My timepiece is a calculator Casio, I have to personally inject ink into my printer cartridges, I pay for things with cash! This very morning facebook apps told me…

Giovanni Rosso Dolcetto d’Alba 2007

You’re reading the super old version of this blog, to go to the new blog visit www.wine90.co.uk Giovanni Rosso Dolcetto d’Alba 2007 Rightio, back to work then. No video today as some cheeky beggar has nicked off with my camera for the weekend. Giovanni Rosso Dolcetto d’Alba 2007 was flown directly to WINE90 Towers by the…