Tasting with Jeremy Oliver
1. Trimbach Riesling 2006
a clean mid nose, with mineral and green spice, a kiss of ripe apricot and lemon, light-mid bodied, tender and soft, ripe apricoty flavor with long soft finish, round mid high acidity.
2. Petaluma Hanlin Hill Riesling 2008
pronounced flowers and lemon lime green apple and smoky minerality. mide high acidity with sweetness. rounded the palte, mid finish, mineral and lemon skin like zesty refreshment.
3. Clarendelle Bordeaux Blanc 2005
it's light on the nose, clean with waxy peachy and appley quality, a sauvignon grassy greenish mid palate linger into finish. simple though appealing,
4. Leeuwin Estate Siblings Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2007
very heady pronounced sauvignon charactor, green pepper grassy zesty intense flavor and light bodied, mid long fresh aftertaste
5. Louis Jadot Meursault 1999
tight, mineral toasty smoky buttery nose, mid bodied a little bit lean and mineral, tight long matured flavor.
6. Wolf Blass Gold Label Chardonnay 2005
smoky buttery and toasty from oak maturation, tropical and oaky on palate, rich and relatively flat, soft mid full, oily oaky finish, long and oaky
7. Ch. Clarke Medoc Cru Bourgeois 2002
mid intensity, cassis plum tobacco cigar smoke and chocolate, mid full bodied, intense firmed tannin from mid palate plummy oaky finish
8. Wolf Blass Grey Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Chocolatey and plummy, candy fruit and minty tint, firmed tannin mid full, ripe fruit mid palate, mid long
9. Petaluma Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot 2004
Violet floral youthful and estery, fine subtle oaky creaminess with a little bit cassis on mid palate, oaky mocha finish, long
10 . E. Guigal, St. Joseph 2004
mid intensity deep and close, a little fresh plum and oaky peppery quality, mid bodied firmed and fine tannin, cherrish soft finish.
11. Penfolds Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz 2005
youthful, cherry and plum intense smoky and spicy nose, acidic attack, firmed tannin and good fruit concentration on mid palate, long juicy black fruit finish
12. Wolf Blass Grey Label Shiraz 2004
full, port like black fruit and spicy, frimed, a little harsh tannin concentration with also frefreshing cherry fruit
13. Brown Bros. Moscato 2000
from Muscat d'Alexandria, Moscato spumante style fresh and ripe