Chateau Lestruelle 2007 Cru Bourgeois

Variety: 
Country of origin: France
Wine appellation: Bordeaux, Médoc
Vintage: 2007
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Color: dark ruby red
Bouquet: fruit, cassis, marmelade, cedar wood
Taste: medium body, sour cherries , black currant, plesant tannins, medium finish
Overall score: 82
Price: CZK 350
Stopper: cork
More fruitier style of Bordeaux, ended on the last (8th) place.

Chateaux Lauriol Bordeaux Cotes de Francs 2007 AOC

This served as zero sample in our tasting of Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois. For notes please refer to my last tasting one month ago. This time I scored it 83 points.

Bodegas Peñafiel Ribera del Duero Miros de Ribera Reserva Coleccion Privada 2001

Variety: Tempranillo
Country of origin: Spain
Wine appellation: Ribera del Duero
Vintage: 2001
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Color: black red with garnet meniscus
Bouquet: deep and expressive, animal, leather black sour cherry, secondary blackberries and black currant with coffee tones
Taste: medium body, nice round tannins,black sour cherry, cinamon, touch of vanila, long finish
Recommended food pairing: dry fermented salami
Overall score: 93
Price: EUR 30
Stopper: cork
Fantastic wine, excellent bottle maturity, intense black color with expressive nose and very good structure i the mouth.

Marques de Caceres Reserva 2001

Please check the tasting notes from 3 years ago here. This time the wine was more towards leather and coffee. nice smokiness and wood stayed there.

David Moreno Gran Reserva 2001

Variety: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Grenache
Country of origin: Spain
Wine appellation: Rioja
Vintage: 2001
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Color: dark garnet red
Bouquet: very expressive, black chocolate,wood, coffee, canned black sour cherries,touch of vaniila
Taste: medium body, nice matured wood tones and spices, coffee, nice tannins present in the mouth, longer finish
Recommended food pairing: jamon serrano
Overall score: 87
Price: gift on web CZK 350
Stopper: cork
Very nice matured Rioja with excellent bottlr maturity going towards leather and coffee tones.

Domaine Valentin Zusslin Riesling Grand Cru Pfingstberg 2005

Fantastic Riesling!! Comparing to the tasting one year and 10 months ago described here this is absolutely stunning!It has excellent nose, very petrol and benzin tones, excellent minerality in the taste and acid and complex structure. This time it has 89 points.

Vinařství Petr Skoupil Rýnský ryzlink 2005

Variety: 100% Rhine Riesling
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Velké Pavlovice sub-appellation, Velké Bílovice village, Přední hora vineyard
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 12.0%
Residual sugar: 20.2g/l
Acidity: 6.4g/l
Color: deep yellow
Bouquet: Very expressive, hint of benzin tones, concentrated dry fruits, almost straw wine type of flavor, honey, good feel of bottleness
Taste: medium body, dry fruit,touch of orange peel, honey, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: foie grass, or Roquefort cheese
Overall score: 86
Price: CZK 200 in 2007
Stopper: cork
It is interesting especially if you compare it to my tasting two years ago here, it developed quite well over these two years. It got more petrol tones in it but nicely supported by the residual sugar.