Orsogna, Nican, Montepulciano, 2009, Italy
Ooohhh, it’s good. Orsogna realy know how to make quality wine. Dry with soft integrated tannins this is a quality red wine. Aromas and flavours of blackberry, plum, chocolate and oak with notes of leather and slight herby undertone poking through.
At about £30 a bottle it’s not cheap but rather good and you are unlikely to disappoint any you serve, unless they are tea total 😀
Clos de l’Anhel, Les Dimanches, 2009, Corbieres, France
Clos de l’Anhelmake excellent wines and it’s often the case that you should drink wine in a particular period after its been made and this Les Dimanches, 2009 shows why.
Coming from the Corbieres region in France wines are generally left to age little and and although this is still old wine it has decent amounts of black fruit, plum, blackcurrant with chocolate and a smoke and earthy undertone, after 13 years it’s still have been drunk earlier.
The turnings for starting to Fe and the dryness was a little bit too much. Possibly 3 or 4 years ago the fruit would a balanced out better.
Definitely want to have his food but try not to have anything with a heavy sauce if you’re going to drink something at this age.
Hunter Valley produce great Semillon and this Mount Pleasant one is no exception. Theres a petroleum note with ripe citrus and honey on the nose. Its a very dry wine with grass, honey and lemon on the palate with plenty of acidity and a texture of full cream milk, its a big wine.
At about £20 a bottle its not badly priced for a 10 year cellar aged semillon.
Mount Pleasant, Elizabeth, Semillon 2009, Hunter Valley, Australia
2009 Bordeaux from Chateau de Camensac is almost a typical Bordeaux.
Almost! its over 10 years old and this wine has fine characteristics. Its very dry, pretty bold, smoothish tannins, they are definitely there. On the nose you get vanilla, cherry, blackcurrant, a bit of tobacco comes through. these feed into the taste but you then get red fruits and spice notes popping up and hints of earth.
This should have been drunk 2 or 3 years ago but it is very nice, at £16 a bottle it would have been good value 2 or 3 years ago, now a little bit over and a bit overpriced, my fault not the producers.
Château de Camensac, La Closerie de Camensac 2009, Bordeaux, France
To sip an aged Malbec that has matured is a fine experience I was once told. An old wine is like silk rather than velvet. True, but it seems 11 years old is not old enough for a new world £15 Malbec. This is as fresh as when it was bottled, bold, dry, grippy tannins and flavours of sour cherry, spice and oak. It tastes better than it smells, not much going on the nose really, there’s a oaky cherry aroma but its all a bit one dimensional on all fronts. Maybe its been left too long or not long enough!
Its not bad but its pushing the price bracket, its a £10 or less bottle really.
Gran Lorca Poetice, Malbec 2009, Mendoza, Argentina