JUSTIN'S WINE PICKS
OCTOBER 21, 2013
Wines
available to purchase in Ontario on Saturday, October 26.
Just
a short missive this time. Nothing on the release really struck me as
earth-shattering/need to own material.
My
Sister brought a Sauternes to Thanksgiving dinner which went
magically well with pecan and pumpkin pies. I must put a couple of
these lush dessert wines in the cellar.
Chateau
Fontaine 2010 AC Sauternes $16.95 ( 375 ml) is available this time.
Lovely notes of flowers, honey, apricot and orange.
Single
Malt lovers will snatch up Laphroaig 18 Year Old Islay @ $178.95.
“Like a peat fire in a bottle with vanilla and honey.”
Two
great bubblies arrive on the 26th
: Ackerman Grande Reserve Cremant De Loire $19.95 and Tenuta S. Anna
Prosecco Superiore Di Valdobbiadene Veneto $19.95.
Best
White Wine: Bollig-Lehnert Dhroner Hofberger Riesling Spatlese 2011
$21.95. Will last a long time! A big flavoured white wine.
Excellent
Whites
Donatien
Bahuaud Les Grands Mortiers Vouvray 2012 $15.95. Great sweet/acid
balance!
Fielding
Estate Riesling 2012 Niagara $18.95. Compare to the Spatlese above.
Ferrari-Carano
Chardonnay 2011 Sonoma $28.95. For my money the BEST Chardonnay
available in California, year after year.
Best
Red Wine: Sassicaia 2010 Tuscany $184.95. Consistently one of the
World's Top 10 wines every year and a stone cold bargain in
comparison to the big Bordeaux and Burgundy names.
Excellent
Reds
Tangley
Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 Napa $25.95. Textbook Napa Cab!
Mountadam
Patriarch High Eden Shiraz 2009 S. Australia $24.95. You will think
you are in Eden, minus the snake, when you taste this.
Domaine
Du Vieux Lazaret Chateauneuf-Du-Pape 2010 $35.95. Giant sized wine!!
Domaine
Montmartel Cotes Du Rhone 2011 $15.95. BEST BUY!!!!
Monser
Feteasca Neagra 2009 Romania $12.95 Off the wall BARGAIN!!!
Quinta
Do Portal Reserva 2009 Portugal $21.95. #17 in the Wine Enthusiast
Top 100 of 2012.
Great
Reads: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. The Best work of history
I have read in this lifetime. If you think the current era has
problems check out the 13th
Century!
Secret
Ingredients The New Yorker Book Of Food And Wine by David Remnick.
The book is so much fun it is probably banned in Ontario and Boston.
( Sonny I have a copy if you would like to borrow it.)
Thanks,
Justin
