The Bibendum Times wine of the week post is usually our spot to wax lyrical about a wine we’ve been drinking recently, with a few random facts on the producer and the region they call home. Well this week we are bringing you our wine of the week with a difference, via the wonder that is …
Once upon a time budget-conscious lovers of Piedmontese wines would scan restaurant wine lists for a Barbera from a top grower rather than a super-expensive Barolo or Barbaresco. Nowadays – if they are anything like me, at any rate – they skip the Barbera and seek out the Dolcetto.
A hugely underrated white, the Galego is packed full of aromatic citrus fruits, as well as rose and pink grapefruit characteristics. Produced by Vallado’s excellent winemakers, the juice is refined with a great balance of fruit and acidity. Perfect summer drinking!
Dinastia Vivanco use some of the latest technology in their expansive winery, alongside traditional winemaking techniques, creating fruit driven, bright, bold, modern Rioja. Beautifully balanced, with ripe red fruit, spicy oak and smooth, rustic tannins, this is the ideal wine to cheer on Mr Jimenez. Cigars optional!
Huia Pinot Noir is a brilliant example of elegant Kiwi Pinot, offering up seriously smooth, rich red berry fruits, alongside lots of smoke and spice.
There were an awful lot of fantastic wines at our Americas’ Most Wanted Tasting on Tuesday: old Californian Pinots from Calera, the latest releases of Catena’s stunning single vineyard Malbecs and Corison Cabernet to name but a few. However, the wine that really made me smile is a tiny-production, old vine Carignan from Chile…
Look beyond the Beano-esque label and this is a very interesting wine: aVin de Table red from a top French grower made using the solera system more usually found in Jerez, the home of sherry…
If you were planning an advertising campaign for the Brazil tourist board, you’d probably think of tanned bodies on Copacabana, bicycle-kicking footballers and capoeira. I doubt vineyards or wine would get a look in. Gradually over the next decade that might begin to change…
Light, crisp and delicate, the Crede has a lively, fruity palate of apple and pear. With a touch of honeysuckle, and a slight sweetness on the finish…you could say the perfect fizz for a day at the races!
Chateau Sigalas Rabaud is an interesting Chateau, situated on just one single plot of 14 hectares, making it the smallest of the first growths, and only some 500 metres away from its illustrious neighbour, Chateau d’Yquem.
