Chateau Valtice Ryzlink vlašský 2009 pozdní sběr

Variety: 100% Welsh Riesling
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Mikulov sub-appellation, Dolní Dunajovice village, Kraví hora
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: minerality, lime, quite fresh, red apple
Taste: medium body, pleasant mineral extract, balance of lively acidity and fruitiness, longer finish
Recommended food pairing: pork
Overall score: 82
Price: CZK 170
Stopper: cork
Quite nice WR. Slightly better in the nose than in the taste. Both taste and nose are dominated by the mineral character and the nice about the wine is the length.

Schloss Esterhazy Chardonnay 2005

Variety: 100% Chardonnay
Country of origin: Austria
Wine appellation: Neusiedlersee
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: fresh cut green apple, mineral
Taste: medium body, nice green apple, nice pure fruit chardonnay taste with proper acidity, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: seafood, fish
Overall score: 85
Price: CZK 250 in 2006
Stopper: cork
Interesting to retaste the same wine after one year to see the development. After drinking 3 quite oaked Chards we really appreciated the pure European taste of this Chardonnay. For the pictures please refer to the previous tasting here.

Collage Chardonnay 2005

Variety: Chardonnay
Country of origin: USA
Wine appellation: California
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: vanilla,quite oaky with grilled pineapple
Taste: medium body, flat taste, no acidity, not as expressive as in the nose, slight touch of pineapple with dominant vanilla tones, medium finish
Overall score: 81
Price: EUR 6
Stopper:screw cap
Typical vanilla nose and flavor Chardonnay. It is more expressive in the nose than in the taste as there is not much complexity in the mouth.

Chardonnay Clos du Bois 2002 Sonoma County

I have good memories for this wine as this was the first wine posted on this blog here. I was interested in the development of the wine and from the last tasting notes posted almost exactly one year ago there is almost no development so I will not reproduce them, rather link them here. Overall I have one more bottle in the cellar and I will drink it this autumn for sure.

Herbarium Moravicum Ryzlink Vlašský 2006 pozdní sběr (Mikulov, lot: 310701001)

3rd bottle of this wine tasted. I was really looking forward to opening this bottle of wine as I remember tasting it several times in the past and was curious of the potential development from the last tasting in May this year. The tasting notes are almost identical as well as the scoring so I will not reproduce them, but rather include the link here. MVZ is the owner of Mikros and as the wines comes from Mikulov it could be from the same vineyards used for Mikros and EGO row.

Chateau Valtice Neuburské 2007 pozdní sběr

Variety: 100% Neuburger (Red VeltlinerxSylvaner)
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Mikulv sub-appellation, Valtice village, Knížecí vyhlídka vineyard
Vintage: 2007
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: ripe red apples, lime and honey
Taste: medium body, similar to taste there are notes of ripe fresh apple supported by lime acidity and nice meadow honey in the mid palate, very drinkable, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: turkey, pork
Overall score: 85
Price: CZK 180 (in 2008)
Stopper: cork
Excellent Neuburger in the peak conditions. It has very good body, round structure, honey tones and lovely lime acidity. It is extremely good drinkable, somehow the glass is always empty.

Vinextra 99

Variety: 99% Welsh Riesling, 1% Pinot Gris and Chardonnay 
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Mikulov sub-appellation
Vintage: non vintage, prod. #: 065
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Residual sugar: 2.3 g/l
Acidity: 6.3g/l 
Color: medium yellow
Bouquet: minerality, flowers, ripe fruit
Taste: lighter to medium body, juicy acidity, lime, slight spiciness, grapefruit, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fish
Overall score: 80
Price: CZK 170 in 2009
Stopper: vino lok (glass stopper)
As this was not so complex when tasted more than one and half year ago here (you can refer there for picture of the bottle), it did not really develop in the bottle as Welsh Riesling can do very nicely.