Doña Paula Los Cardos Tupungato Sauvignon Blanc 2006

Tasting notes are almost identical as the ones from July so I will not reproduce them here.

Víno Mikulov Sauvignon 2009 pozdní sběr

Variety: 100% Sauvignon blanc
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Mikulov sub appellation, Pavlov village, Sahara vineyard
Vintage: 2009
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Color: pale yellow
Bouquet: ripe elderberry fruit, touch of tropical tones like maracuja accompanied by excellent minerality and smell of dry hei
Taste:  medium to full body, quite oily, ripe gooseberry with white grapefruit sweet dry skin, good minerality, medium finish
Recommended food pairing:
Overall score: 84
Price: CZK 129
Stopper: plastic cork
Fuller style of SB. It opened even better after one day being preserved under vacuum. I quite like the minerality character in it coming from the Palava.
It received the following medals:

• 2010 - MUNDUS VINI,Neustadt,Německo - gold medal
• 2010 - Vinalies Internationales 2010,Paříž,Francie - silver medal
• 2010 - Valtické vinné trhy 2010,Valtice,Česká republika - silver medal
• 2010 - Vinařské Litoměřice 2010,Litoměřice,Česká republika - silver medal
• 2010 - Prague Wine Trophy 2010,Praha,Česká republika - Prague Silver
• 2010 - VINITALY 2009,Verona,Itálie - diplom

 

Habánské sklepy Rýnský ryzlink 2005 pozdní sběr

Variety: Rhine Riesling
Country of origin: Czech Republic
Wine appellation: Moravia, Slovácko sub-appelation, Bzenec village, Zadní hora vinyard
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Color: golden
Bouquet: dried lemon peel, hint of bottleness
Taste: medium body, nice lemony acidity accompanied by dry lemon peel in sugar, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: lemon risotto
Overall score: 84
Price: CZK 180
Stopper: cork
Nicely aged delicate RR with excellent acidity given the vintage.

Home Ranch Pinot Noir 2006

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir
Country of origin: USA
Wine appellation: Sonoma
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 14.0%
Color: bricky red wit orange meniscus
Bouquet: cherries, jammy tones,sweet spices, leather
Taste: medium to full body, round, cherries, coffee, bottlle tones, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: turkey with cranberry sauce
Overall score: 83
Price: CZK 200
Stopper: cork
More full bodied and "rustic" type of Pinot Noir.
P.S the pic is from 2009 vintage, which was sealed under screw cap already.

Patina Pinot Noir 2006 Orange

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir
Country of origin: Australia
Wine appellation: Orange
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 13.1%
Color: bricky red wit orange meniscus
Bouquet: cherries, strawberry marmalade, leather
Taste: medium body, wild strawberries, cherries, higher acidity, medium tannins, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: pork loin
Overall score: 81
Price: CZK450
Stopper: cork
Regular Pinot Noir with surprisingly good acidity, but otherwise nothing special.

De Salis Sauvigon Blanc 2010

Variety: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Country of origin: Australia
Wine appellation: Cerntral Table land
Vintage: 2010
Alcohol content: 12.8%
Color: very pale yellow
Bouquet: fresh cut vegetables, almost like a dill
Taste: medium body, tones of citrus and dill, quite flat, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fish
Overall score: 78
Price: CZK 500
Stopper: Screw cap
Very strange nose and taste of dill in cucumber pickles.

Settesoli Nero d' Avola Shiraz Sicilia 2006 IGT

Variety: Nero d' Avola, Syrah
Country of origin: Italy
Wine appellation: Sicily
Vintage: 2006
Alcohol content: 13.0%
Color: light ruby red
Bouquet: plum, plum cake blackberry
Taste: medium body, blackberry, very fruity and straightforward wine, black sour cherries at the mid palate with slight bitterness at the end of the taste, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: BBQ
Overall score: 78
Price: CZK 99
Stopper:screw cap
Regular Fruity BBQ wine, nothing complex