flavours

A Bootful of Wine - Tasting Notes from Italy A visit to Terrabianca ... with cherries and some plum flavours. At 13% alcohol, it seemed a bigger wine than the La Fonte, but still an ideal match for spicy food and even...

Richard, There are two 'stages' for Hunter Semillon, First is two weeks from ... all those nutty, toasty flavours that make Hunter Semillon such a good wine... As it is with all wines, some are meant to be consumed...

Thanks! I live in Sydney and am just getting into Hunter Valley Semillons. ... by the burnt toast and honey flavours I've read about aged Semillon

Carmignano   I will devote this column to the small appellation of Carmignano. ... within its ample fruit flavours, which I enjoyed. (17.5) Tenuta Pierazzuoli Le Farnete Carmignano DOCG 2005 The 20% Cabernet Sauvignon...

my guess is that it was never corked and, in my experience, some Pinots tend to develope those flavours; of course some more than others. That 'roughness' around the edges may have been some tannins which usually soften up...

A "groovy autumn find" from my site http://www.winewriting.com: 2005 Riesling Domaine ... on to oilier texture and flavours, and finishing with subtle underlying mineral bite. Drink now although it's still fresh enough to keep...

For C9dp (Il love the way you write it...), I highly recommend wines from this ... powerful and fresh, fruity flavours similar to the nose, wonderful elegant tannins. The finish is exceptionally long. Its life will be...

Oh, Banyuls, that's great wine. An old Banyuls with chocolate, it's real ... wich was... hummmm... Flavours of blackberries and cherries jam, roasted almonds, honey, deep chocolate, old cognac... Close to perfection, a...

Certainly an extraordinary wine, very expensive, though. I had the Pinot Noir ... It was frustraiting, fewer flavours and a much inferior bouquet than I expected

A possibly interesting parallel - 'sweaty saddle' smells/flavours used to be common in Hunter Valley (Australian) shirazes. Again, at the time a lot of wine producers thought that this was expressive of the particular...