Category: Buying recommendations
Buying recommendations
I ended up drinking the South African Bordeaux-blend Rabelais 2017 from Thelema Mountain Vineyards a few times – I reported on the first of these occasions with Rabelais 2017. …
Buying recommendations
Some things make wine more of a pleasure – friends, food, Riedel glasses – and these are to be encouraged. Other things make wine less pleasurable. Chief amongst the …
Buying recommendations
“MR de Compostella, have you tried that?”, asks my chum, Greg. “Mr who?”, I think, before he explains. Raats Family Eden Cabernet Franc 2017, Thelema Mountain Vineyards Rabelais 2017, …
South Africa
It is Elitistreview’s sixteenth anniversary! Finally, my organ is legally allowed to have sex, rather than just making puerile jokes about it and sniggering in the corner of the …
Rhône
One of the three great Northern Rhone appellations Cornas covers a little over one hundred hectares – smaller than a lot of estates in Italy and Bordeaux. The Lionnet …
Germany
Really Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling Kabinett 2018 – Schloss Lieser are not immune to the current fad of just putting just vineyard names on their wines. Fine, if it is …
Burgundy
This is a report on the Côte de Nuits 2018 Burgundies I tasted at the Clark Foyster wines en primeur event on the 17 January 2020. I would like …
Australia
Recently I have been trying quite a few Western Australian Cabernets and Chardonnays. I have to report that (as a person who basically loves old world Pinot Noir and …
New Zealand
I asked my Australian friend Howard Hilton if he would like to write a guest post for Elitistreview, he has written this rather good overview of a New Zealand …
Burgundy
If the Clark Foyster 2015 red Burgundy tasting provided a snapshot of the 2015 vintage in the Cotes de Nuits – what a beautiful, exciting, lustrous snapshot that was! …
