Ravis Rakvice Exclusive Pálava 2009

Variety: 100% Palava
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia,
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Color: very pale yellow
Bouquet: spicy flowers, roses, apricot
Taste: light to medium body, lower acidity, apricot, at the end slight bitterness, short to medium finish
Recommended food pairing:
Overall score: 79
Price: CZK 69
Stopper: cork
The wine is OK, slightly tighter in the body, but nicely aromatic of apricots and maybe litchi. It is absolute bargain to have this gentle wine for this money.

Willi Brundlmayer Langenloiser Gruner Veltliner 2007

Variety: 100% Gruner Veltliner
Country of origin: Austria
Wine appellation: Kamptal
Vintage: 2007
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: shiny medium yellow
Bouquet: expressive, green pepper, hay, dried fruit, vanilla, bottleness
Taste: medium body, lime, peeled almonds, quite nice extract and concentration, although very dry, medium to long finish
Recommended food pairing: turkey breast with spinach and cheese stuffing, baby potatoes with butter
Overall score: 87
Price: CZK 399
Stopper: single piece cork
Very nice concentrated and spicy type of Gruner Veltliner which has balanced acidity and peppery tones. It is getting better and better with every sip, especially the bouquet is splander of complex scents of oriental herbs with dry pineapple and lime peel.

Víno Mikulov Sommelier Club Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 pozdní sběr rosé

Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Velké Pavlovice sub appellation, Křepice village, Achtele vineyard
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Color: darker pink with orange hues
Bouquet: raspberries, touch of red currant with forest strawberries
Taste: quite fruity, strawberries, red currant. nice acidity, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: salad
Overall score: 81
Price: CZK 139
Stopper: plastic cork
Nice rose with balanced fruitiness, acidity and very slight residual sugar.

Australian Bush Shiraz Cabernet

Variety: Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon
Country of origin: Australia
Wine appellation: South Eastern Australia
Vintage: non vintage
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: light ruby red
Bouquet: raspberries, cherries, very fruity, straightforward
Taste: light to medium body, cherries, raspberries, blue rapes flavor, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: summer BBQ drink
Overall score: 75
Price: CZK 99
Stopper: plastic cork
Unispiring cheap red from Australia, drunk at the visit.

Neoklas Šardice Augustianský Sklep Rulandské modré rosé 2009

Variety: 100% Rulandské modré
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Slovácko sub appellation, Nechvalín village, Borový-Čtvrtě vineyard
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: very pale salmon pink
Bouquet: gentle, forest strawberries
Taste: white currant, small red wild cherries, higher acidity, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fish
Overall score: 77
Price: CZK 99
Stopper: cork
Quite ordinary rose, slightly higher acidity than I would expect to have, not as fruity in the nose and taste as one would expect from rose.

Wegenstein Muskat Ottonel 2009

Variety: 100% Muscat Ottonel
Country of origin: Austria
Wine appellation: Burgenland
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: light yellow
Bouquet: aromatic, lychee, apricot, muscat flower
Taste: light to medium body, zesty acidity accompanied by nice spicy tones, slight residual sugar, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fruit salad
Overall score: 83
Price: CZK 99
Stopper: screw top
This is quite nice muscatel wine, very young and fruity and although with slight residual sugar it keeps the crispy acidity in it. it requires quite a chilling to 6 to 7 degrees to be very refreshing.

Rocca Bernarda Chardonnay 2008 DOC

Variety: 100% Chardonnay
Country of origin: Italy
Wine appellation: Colli Orientali del Friuli
Vintage: 2008
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: deeper aroma of tropical fruit , pinepple
Taste: medium body, pineapple, round mouth feel, crunchy acidity with minerality follwed by medium to longer finish
Recommended food pairing: risotto with peas
Overall score: 83
Price: CZK 199
Stopper: cork
Nice mineral type of Chardonnay from Friuli region in Italy. I got this wine from last year Vino Destilaty show.

Neoklas Šardice Augustianský Sklep Tramín 2007

Variety: 100% Gewurtztraminer
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Slovácko sub appellation, Šardice village, Dubový-Červenice vineyard
Vintage: 2007 lote 15/07
Alcohol content: 14.0%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: straw yellow
Bouquet: very expressive, rose petals, spices, lychee
Taste: full body, very concentrated, round, dry mango, spices, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: mango and peach chutney
Overall score: 85
Price: CZK 99 in 2007
Stopper: cork
Very very nice concentrated type of Gewurtztraminer, intense aroma of roses, spices and overripe to almost pungent fruit. Similar concentration is felt in the flavor with Big body and full mouth feel. Definitely food wine.

VS Lechovice Rulandské bílé 2006 pozdní sběr

Variety: 100% Pinot blanc
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Znojmo sub appellation, Božice village, Nová Hora vineyard
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 12.8%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: straw yellow
Bouquet: dry pineapple, peeled white almonds,
Taste: medium body, very concentrated, dry pineapple, white peach, medium residual sugar nicely accompanied by the concentrated flavor and lighter acidity of pineapple, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: mango and peach chutney with poultry and jasmine rice
Overall score: 84
Price: CZK 199 in 2007
Stopper: cork
I searched for this wine to accompany our dish (stated in the recommendation) and it was stunning choice. The wine is off dry and it went well with the food. It is very concentrated, excellent straw towards golden shiny color and mainly the taste reminding dry pineapples with their tangent acidity. Unfortunately I had only one bottle of this wine:(

Tenuta Il Faggeto Pietranera Vino Nobile di Moltepulciano Riserva 2002 DOCG

Variety: 90% Prugnolo Gentile, 5% Colorino, 5% Mammolo
Country of origin: Italy
Wine appellation: Montepulciano
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: darker ruby red
Bouquet: sour cherries black chocolate, clove
Taste: medium body, red fruit, sour cherries, gentle acidity, medium tannins, spices, medium to long finish
Recommended food pairing: shepherds pie
Overall score: 85
This was quite nice Sangiovese, nice tannins, gentle acidity, aroma and taste of black sour cherries accompanied by dark chocolate and underpinned by spices.

Schloss Esterhazy Chardonnay 2005

Variety: 100% Chardonnay
Country of origin: Austria
Wine appellation: Neusiedlersee
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Residual sugar: g/l
Acidity: g/l
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: ripe apple, canned pineapple
Taste: medium to full body, nice green apple acidity accompanied by ripe grapefruit or garnet apple, 
Recommended food pairing: apple pie
Overall score: 83
Price: CZK 250 in 2006
Stopper: cork
Nice example of cool region chardonnay with green apple tones and lively acidity even after 4 years of aging. It is full bodied, nicely structured European unoaked Chardonnay.

František Foretník Chardonnay 2006 výběr z hroznů

Variety: 100% Chardonnay
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Slovácko sub-appellation, Šardice village, Padělky vineyard
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 14.0%
Residual sugar: 2.3 g/l
Acidity: 6.3g/l
Color: medium yellow, oily consistency
Bouquet: ripe tropical fruits, pineapple, white flowers, honey
Taste: medium to full body, round, full mouth feel, pineapple, pink grapefruit, slight residual sugar, medium to long finish
Recommended food pairing: fish
Overall score: 85
Price: CZK 150 in 2009
Stopper: cork
Very nice example of tropical full body type of Chardonnay, it has expressive bouquet of pineapple going towards honey tones. Same characteristics are in the taste with very full mouth feel.

Marks and Spencer Los Nucos Shiraz Cabernet Rose 2009

Variety: Shiraz x Cabernet Sauvignon
Country of origin: Chille
Wine appellation: Central valley
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: rather than rose, it is very lighly red   
Bouquet: raspberry, cherries and slightly higher alcohol
Taste: medium body, very round, cherries,  with heavy ripe tones at the end reminiscent of overripe raspberries, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: sorbet
Overall score: 77
Price: CZK 149
Stopper: screw cap
Regular Rose from new world, drinkable, but not exciting.
P.S. pic of the same bottle, but 2008 vintage is from net.

Marks and Spencer Burra Brook Rose 2009

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir
Country of origin: Australia
Wine appellation: South Eastern Australia  
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 11.5%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: raspberry light red
Bouquet: black currant, cherries, very fruity
Taste: light to medium body, intensive tones of black currant and cherries, dry, refreshing
Recommended food pairing:  salads, sorbet
Overall score: 82
Price: CZK 119
Stopper: Screw top
I was really curious for this rose when i saw it at M&S. I normally do not like new world rose as the alcohol typically kills the wine. But this time I saw on the label 11.5% and was really curries to taste the unusual combination of cab sauv with pinot noir, both my favorite varieties. I was positively surprised, the wine is very nice fruity, dry and light to medium bodied with dominant black current tones in the nose and taste followed by cherries in the taste. It is quite nice rose from Australia.

Vinařství Roman Zapletal Valtice Muškát Moravský 2008

This wine was tasted here in February. This time I did not have it bz itself but with green curry and the combination was excellent. Very refreshing type of Muscat with nice acidity suited excellently the curry. I would rate it this time 81.

Carmin Monsaraz Branco 2008

Variety: Arinto, Antao Vaz, Perrum, Rabo de Ovelha, Síria
Country of origin: Portugal
Wine appellation: Alentejo
Vintage: 2008
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Residual sugar: g/l
Acidity: g/l
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: fruity aroma combined with white flowers, grapefruit tones
Taste: medium to full body,  ripeness, smooth, mirabelle, white grapefruit, at the end bitterness, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: seafood, salads
Overall score: 81
Price CZK 125
Stopper: cork
I got this wine as a present and by chance I had tasted it about 4 months ago, but 2 years older vintage here. It is similar, but this is less mineral with more visible bitterness than 2006 vintage. General note: OK medium bodied wine, if chilled this will nicely accompany some fish or salads.

Castillo de Molina Sauvignon Blanc Fumé 2007

Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Country of origin: Chile
Wine appellation: Casablanca Valley
Vintage: 2007 
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Residual sugar: n/a
Acidity: n/a
Color: light yellow
Bouquet: ripe tropical tones including gooseberry and a hint of hazel nuts
Taste: medium to full body, strong gooseberry with elderberry, accompanied by nice touch of oak tones, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: vegetable salad with balsamico and parmigiano reggiano
Overall score: 86
Price: circa CZK 250
Stopper: Cork
Quite complex sauvignon blanc, medium to full body with light toastiness, recommended to be served absolutely with food as it is rather complex to be served without any dish.