Château Bauduc 2022 Rosé

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Simple no frills Rosé, nice fruit. Through AC Wines

Website blurb: ‘This pale, dry rosé was made from 40% Cabernet Franc, 40% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. We harvested the grapes earlier than for making red and pressed the light juice off the dark skins for a refreshing, crisp wine. The house rosé for Rick Stein for many years.’ 12% vol.

“Château Bauduc’s lovely Bordeaux Rosé goes against the region’s general trend by picking grapes (merlot and cabernet) early to keep the style fresh, dry and modest in alchohol (12% abv)….Make sure to order….” Fiona Beckett, wine critic for The Guardian.

About Château Bauduc

Owner operators and English ex-pats Gavin and Angela Quinney fell for the lovely Château Bauduc, some 15 miles from the city of Bordeaux, in 1999. The house and the winery are surrounded by 25 hectares of pretty vineyards, where they grow Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon for their white wines, along with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc for the reds and rosé. Some of their older vines date from 1947 and the family have replanted or planted 15 or so hectares more since 2000.

The estate’s Bordeaux Superieur has been the served at Gordon Ramsay’s three Michelin star restaurant in London for the past nineteen years, a ‘special selection’ at Rick Stein’s for a decade and a half. Oz Clarke is a huge fan, stating, “Bordeaux needs another 100 Bauducs — and fast.” It is also listed at Maze Grill, The Savoy and Petrus, all top London Restaurants.

https://www.bauduc.com/chateau-bauduc-rose-2022/

Zabù Nero d’Avola 2021

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Tasting notes by Alan Crowley MW

Ideal to match the warmth of Christmas, this Zabù

Nero d’Avola, also from Sicily, is made from one of the most important indigenous red wine grapes in Sicily and indeed in all Italy. Named after the small town of Avola in south east Sicily where the vines thrive in the region’s hot and relatively dry climate producing a warm, full-bodied wine full of sweet plum and spicy flavours. This style of wine could be classified as being “friendly” as not only is it attractively quaffable but it has sufficient body and fruity flavour to go with all the rich food that the Christmas season brings. It goes well with both classic roast turkey with all the delicious trimmings to a traditional St Stephen’s Day plate of cold turkey, ham and stuffing.

https://cellaro.it/

Delicious Lumà Grillo 2022

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Tasting notes by Alan Crowley MW

The festive season calls for a crisp fruity white wine, one that is not only refreshing but has a depth of flavour to go with the richer food of Christmas.

This Lumà Grillo is a big flavoursome, citrus tinged wine from Sicily, a region which is quite the wine hot spot at the moment. Made from the unusual grape varietal, Grillo, this wine has a refreshingly round, juicy lemony style with layers of melons, tangy grapefruits and even creamy sweet lychees. This wine is ideal for festive gatherings and as a delicious complement to smoked salmon or the Christmas ham.

https://cellaro.it/ Wines with Soul

Porta 6 Lisboa Reserva 2020

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From Vigidal: 16,5 pts Vinho Grandes Escolhas – Ruby dark colour. Intense aromas to wild and black fruits, spices, light touch of chocolate. In the mouth, fruit, structure, soft and fresh with persistent and pleasant finish.

I was expecting something punchier, unremarkable, will make a note to try the standard Porta 6.

50% Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), 40% Castelão and 10% Touriga Nacional

The label shows a painting of the E28 Tram in Lisbon by Hauke Vagt.

MARQUÉS DE LA CONCORDIA RIOJA SANTIAGO RESERVA Tempranillo 2018

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From the people who bring you the famous Federico Paternina Banda Azul here’s another really well made wine.

Soft tannic structure, full bodied, velvety and fruity.

We had it with a Chicken Pasta, equally at home with a Red Meat.

€12 on a half-case deal in O’Briens.

marquesdelaconcordia.com/en/mc-rs-reserva/

Chromatography can identify the Terroir

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Scientists from the University of Geneva and the Institute of Vine & Wine Science in Bordeaux using gas chromatography (GC) and electron ionization mass spectrometry can accurately identify the exact origin, Wine Estate or Vineyard a wine comes from.

Their algo is only 50% accurate with the particular Vintage though.

I wonder if the AI takes as much pleasure from identifying a particular Wine as we do!

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Abstract

Connecting chemical properties to various wine characteristics is of great interest to the science of olfaction as well as the wine industry. We explored whether Bordeaux wine chemical identities and vintages (harvest year) can be inferred from a common and affordable chemical analysis, namely, a combination of gas chromatography (GC) and electron ionization mass spectrometry. Using 12 vintages (within the 1990–2007 range) from 7 estates of the Bordeaux region, we report that, remarkably, nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques applied to raw gas chromatograms recover the geography of the Bordeaux region. Using machine learning, we found that we can not only recover the estate perfectly from gas chromatograms, but also the vintage with up to 50% accuracy. Interestingly, we observed that the entire chromatogram is informative with respect to geographic location and age, thus suggesting that the chemical identity of a wine is not defined by just a few molecules but is distributed over a large chemical spectrum. This study demonstrates the remarkable potential of GC analysis to explore fundamental questions about the origin and age of wine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-023-01051-9

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