Schweizer Allerlei Teil Drei

Endlich! Endlich habe ich es geschafft meine Notizen von Teil Drei von Schweizer Allerlei zu sortieren um sie dem virtuellen Kosmos zur Verfügung stellen zu können! Dieses Mal gibt es kleine Abweichung im Vergleich zu den vorangegangenen Schweizer Allerlei Verkostungen. Es wurde mehrheitlich aus 0,75 Flaschen genossen. Zur Hölle mit der Leber und all den Vorsätzen! Darüber hinaus entstammten die meisten der verkosteten Weine aus der Oberklasse des jeweiligen Weingutes. Auch dieses Mal soll meine Allerlei Exkursion mit einem Chasselas aus dem Kanton Waadt beginnen. Im Waadt verweilend kommt es mit einem Saint-Saphorin zu einem beträchtlichen Farbwechsel. Anschließend geht es hoch hinauf in die Bergwelt des Wallis. Dann tief herunter an den Zürichsee. Um schließlich wie immer im Tessin ein gebührenden Abschluss zu finden. Genug der Worte! Her mit dem Wein …

Happening Now Tasting 10: Weingut Thomas Strohmaier Blauer Wildbacher 2008, Western Styria

After a week of sobriety, miserable weather and plenty of slumbrous engagement it is time for something new and unfamiliar. Today, I am about to drink my first wine made from Blauer Wildbacher. This Blauer Wildbacher is supposedly an ancient dark skinned grape variety which is a particular specialty from Styria in Austria. In most cases Blauer Wildbacher wines are produced as easy drinking (or sometimes not so easy - due to unique spiciness) Rosé wines. The so called Schilcher wines. Today's wine is far away from humble Rosé. Today's one is one of the few oak barrel aged "real" redsters made from Wildbacher. Its producer Thomas Strohmaier is without a doubt one of the major experts in the business of this autochtonous grape varietal from Western Styria. Besides my Wildbacher he also produces four different Schilcher wines. Pretty excited right now, I guess ... Let's go!

Le Cadeau Vineyard Côte Est Oregon Pinot Noir 2007

Bei meinem heutigen Pinot-Ausflug nach Oregon geht es in gewisser weise in den Wald! Ja, in den Wald! Naja, eigentlich eher durch den Wald und ins waldumschlossene Rebenmeer. Dennoch könnte man so verwegen sein und von Waldwein sprechen! Das wäre nach Beschreibungen wie Alte Reben, Steillagen usw. eigentlich mal eine nette neue Vermarktungsidee, oder!?! Sollte ich mal weiterverfolgen ob es so etwas schon gibt, doch nun lieber nicht weiter abschweifen, sonst artet der Text wieder in ungeahnte Längen und Absurditäten aus! Ich habe mir für dieses Jahr vorgenommen Abschweifungen bestmöglich zu unterbinden. Ich hoffe es wird mir gelingen. Wie ich sehe hat es heute hat schon mal nicht geklappt ... 

Happening Now Tasting 9: Jose Maria Da Fonseca Terras Altas Garrafeira Tinto 1992, Dao

Like the frequent reader of this blog might have already realized – the author is lazy. Some lazy snobby wine-bastard! So, no real surprise that I have no detailed research outcome at hand. Several reasons: Reason No. 1: José Maria da Fonseca is a humongously large and super well known wine producer with domains all over Portugal -> so, no need for an introduction! Reason No. 2: I assume Dão is a prominent name for all interested readers. The others won't come far enough to read this very sentence - I guess! I think, I can permit myself to anticipate: Those dropouts miss something!!! Reason No. 3.: Due to my overall wine oriented incompetence I simply could not find a lot input about this very well know wine! Well, in my defense … apparently, since 1996 there is a substantial difference compared to today's Terras Altas wines from J.M.d.F. So, not that easy to proper info. The only knowledge I can drop is: grown on slate soil and red blend of the autochtonous grape varieties: Jaen, Alfrocheiro Preto, Cabernet Sauvignon (obviously no auto') and Touriga Nacional. Anyway, at least not so much reading today! I hope I can keep up this conciseness in the future ;-)

Happy New Year: Agustí Torelló Mata Rosat Trepat Brut Reserva 2009, Cava

Happy New Year Everybody!!!

Like every New Year’s Day I’d like to present to you guys out there a sparkling wine. As always a kind of Fizz I am not very familiar at all. So, accept my apologies for all the ignorance I am about to write right now! Please! It is my first Trepat sparkling after all.

What is Trepat? Trepat is a late ripening, large-berried and pretty frail red Spanish grape variety which is primarily grown in the D. O.’s of Cava, Conca de Barberà and Costers del Segre in Catalonia. In most cases it is used for Rosé and of sparkling Rosé wines – just like my New Year’s Fizz. The producer of my Trepat is one of the biggest and most renowned names in the Cava business: Agustí Torelló Mata. In 1959 he started to open up his own Cava winery. Before this new challenge he was involved in several other Cava ventures. Today, the Agustí Torelló Mata winery is famous for its eccentrically looking flagship fizz Krypta, just the bottle not the actual wine, and its intense and highly balanced Brut Nature from traditional grape varietals. Let’s check out today’s Rosat Trepat Brut Reserva from 2009: