Blog posts of '2016' 'May'

In the bottle the wine had a slightly lower level (4.50 cm below the cork)and the fully saturated cork crumbled apart upon touching turning the
normally easy task of opening a bottle of wine into a true challenge.
But this wine was a stunning reward in itself : a sparkling golden liquid shone from...

A decade older than half a century, but this wine still looked lovely deep pomegranate red.
At first it reeked of oil or diesel, probably the influence of some old heating system that was next to the cellar where it had been stored, but luckily, this disappeared rather quickly. The aromas that reve...

The wine is lovely dark ruby in color, still not browning at all,despite is age.
An interesting mixture of fruit and garrigue slowly creeps out of the glass, there’s ripe plums and cherries intermingled with herbes de Provence and even some lavender. It has a nice woody touch too and a nuance of gr...

This bottle was made from brown glass, so probably a Belgian bottling,and sadly the cork had fallen into the wine.
After pouring it, only the very first glass contained a lovely transparentliquid, every next glass became more and more cloudy, until the verylast (mine) was really murky. Even after a...