BEST Wines of 2023 - A Master of Wine's Selection of the most memorable wines of the year
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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: Zieher "Fresh"
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
2006 Pierre Moncuit Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc Champagne France
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2022 Pio Cesare L’Altro Langhe Chardonnay Italy
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2010 Prager Achleiten Grüner Veltliner Stockkultur Smaragd Wachau Austria
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2012 Vina Tondonia Blanco Reserva Rioja Spain
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1998 Tyrell’s Vat 1 Semillon Hunter Valley Australia
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2017 Keller Pettenthal Riesling Rheinhessen Germany
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1997 Landrat Guyollot La Rambarde Pouilly Fumé France
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2022 Booskloof Patatsfontain Steen Montagu South Africa
Matsunotsukasa Kimoto Junmai Japan
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2021 Bernhard Huber Schlossberg Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs Baden Germany
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2019 Montille Hokkaido Pinot Noir Japan
2019 Boscarelli Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Il Nocio Italy
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2019 Dunn Vineyards Howell Mountain Napa Valley USA
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2010 Pontet-Canet Pauillac France
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2020 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett Mosel Germany
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The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 - 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
The cold winter has given me a cold and if I cannot smell I travel through my wine memories. That means it is the perfect time for my wines of 2023 - the good the bad and the ugly. Or rather the wines I remember. 2023 has been a good year for me as I have tasted thousands of wines. On my mission to taste I travelled to California, Georgia, several times to Italy, France and the growing regions of Germany, and, believe it or not England.
There is no chance that I can talk about all these experiences here and I am therefore going to focus on the ones that really stood out - mostly because they were very good. There were many bangers - cult, unicorn wines that are very hard to get - amongst the wines I tased, but I also want to talk about wines that offer great value at affordable prices. This is not all though. At the end I am going to share with you, which wines I am going to drink in 2024.
Great video as I love hearing your stories…
Tondonia Blanco is such a game changer, I get so excited everytime I drink it. Boscarelli is one of my favorite producers in all of Italy. When I visited to shoot a video they opened their first vintage of Il Nocio (1991). Nicolo and I sat there in silence… We didn’t have to say a word, we both understood.
Never underestimate the aging power of a good white wine. Many Sauvignons from the Loire, especially from Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume have the ability to age very gracefully. I've had some in the recent years and they were gorgeous. The most interesting thing with an aged Sauvignon for me is the completely different flavor profile, when compared to a young one. Regarding white Pessac wines from the well-known producers of the region, they have a good reputation for aging very nice. My bet is that Fieuzal will be a nice surprise. One of the best white wines I've tasted in this life was a bottle of 1975 Latour-Martillac. It blew my mind, I was just staring at the glass and trying to understand what was going on. Keep up the great work!
Good Chenins from the Loire can also age really well. Not just the sweet versions which can last for decades of course, but also the dry ones, especially when they're made with an oxidative style.
Yeah White Bx can REALLY last and still be good. Had 1952 Laville HB and 1929 Pav de Ch Margaux, but, 2001 is not the best vintage, although Fieuzal is an excellent grower of white Bx, just as good as Smith Haut Lafitte. I would maybe drink the Fieuzal too but only due to it being a 2001.
Had it been a 1995, then save for 10 yrs.
@@PianoGuy954 Agreed and I am slowly building up a collection of them. I'm trying to buy around 4 of each bottle - 2 to enjoy sooner and 2 to age.
Château Climens 2010 was my favorite bottle of 2023 thus far. Happy Holidays Konstantin, thank you for all the great content (the Georgia video was especially epic!).
Thanks a lot Konstantin for this video and for all you do, especially the Passion you show towards wine and towards sharing your knowledge with wider community. Really appreciate that :)
Thank you 🙏
Definitely a good video. Lots to try and find for the cellar. Thank you.
Cheers and thanks so much for your amazing content this year! Appreciate all your insights and recommendations
Thank you 🙏
Love this! Thanks so much for all the videos this year happy festive time to you and leon
Thank you 🙏
Thank you, Konstantin!
My husband and me would like to wish you merry christmas and a happy new year ! Thank you for your videos and all your efforts about my favorite subject: Wine! Cheers!
Cool that you featured the Japanese Sake!! Another amazing video - thank you.
That was an awesome round up! Bring on next year!
Really interesting as ever! My most surprising wine moment of 2023 was tasting a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, not the most expensive in the house but outstanding indeed. Sadly I don't remember the details, but this one had that quality of mouth feel you mentioned there, 'chewiness', a feeling that there was a tangible texture to the flavour, and this characteristic I feel is an important one in this style of wine.
May I wish you and all supporters of your excellent channel a very Happy Christmas! 🎄⭐👍
Looking forward to more from you in 2024!
My best wine moment of 2023 was a wine I found at a local shop that they seemed to be trying to get rid of to make room for newer vintages. Lucky for me! Paolo Scavino Bricco Ambrogio 2007 Barolo. Absolutely beautiful wine. I have two more bottles to age even longer and open for the right occasions in the future.
I had the 2019 Montille & Hokkaido, while on a winetrip in burgundy in january. Lovely wine that our waiter came by with, since the table that ordered it left some in the bottle and our waiter wanted us to taste it. Definitely a wine to follow.
Love the list and looking forward to see what next year will bring
Konstantin signing is always a treat 🎙️
I’m glad to hear you talk more frequently about Cabernet Franc.
It is my favorite varietal wine.
Nice to see my friend sampled some wine prior to filming 🎉
Happy holidays
2009 Vina Tondonia Reserva Rioja. One of the best reds of my life, equal in quality to First/Second Growth Bordeaux, at 1/3 the price or less. Rich, elegant, mature, fragrant. Gorgeous. Second spot goes to La Rioja Alta Reserva 2018, under $30 in the US. A very high quality, relatively inexpensive wine from one of the best wineries in Spain. As I can no longer afford to drink Burgundy regularly, Rioja has become my go to.
Great selection Konstantin. Would love to try the De L'oree Hermitage. I'm definitely with you on drinking more Cabernet Franc!
Thx for another good video. Loved it! I put some on my "to order"-list now. You will ruin me! 😂
I love all of your content, but really love that you are into Riesling. It's hard to find content and professionals that love Riesling. I am a big Riesling fan and just love hearing about Rieslings I haven't tried and how a pro feels about those I have tried. Thanks for all of the Riesling content for us Riesling lovers. I would love to see some Joh Jos Prum on the channel again. I love a good GG, but Prum is what gave me the love for wine. Cheers to a great 2024 ahead!
I hope you do a follow up episode in '24 on these wines and perhaps others that you have waited to drink until '24. I love your show. Thanks. I'm too poor to drink almost anything that you highlight but that doesn't matter. I enjoy the education on wines and enjoy vicariously experiencing them through your tastings.
Nice selection and you always get new ideas of what you should taste next 😀
My wines they flashed me this year were 2011 Kirchspiel Wittmann, 2020 Brombach Sommerhalde WB & Pinot Noir from Waßmer and also the idea that Sauvignon Blancs and Chardonnays from Chile are way underrated and it is almost ridicoulous that they are at a prive level of 8-15 €. My Highlight some days ago was a 2012 Drake Vineyard William Selyem Blanc de Noirs sparkling wine which has a special meaning for me personally because I worked there during my studies and the winemaker gave me this bottle singned by him for free. Awesome stuff and probably one of the best wines I ever tasted. I am glad that I tasted it with some Colleagues from workwho appreciate wine and know their way around.
I wish everyone a nice day and may the next wine delight you 🚀❤
My most interesting wine moment for 2023 was definitely trying Sauternes from different vintages. Not something I would have all the time, but very interesting to see how different vintages and grape varieties perform when made into sweet wines! Looking forward to more discoveries in 2024.
Fantastic 2023 wrap up! My wine of the year was the 2020 Chave Hermitage Blanc (my first time tasting it). Holy smokes. I didn't know white wine could be that powerful. It was like if you could taste a box of jewels.
Also a request - could you put your point rating score with each wine in the notes? It would be cool to reference!
Really looking forward to your thoughts on Syrah/Shiraz. Interesting video today. Greatest wine moment 2023: I have the discovered the value of Southern Rhone reds this year. Very nice wines at affordable prices.
Hi. I did vintage at Landrat Guyollot in 2009 and super stoked to see La Rambarde in the video. I’ve sent them the link. They make great wines and are also very nice people !!!
My highlight from this year was your recommendation for the unusual Swedish bubbly called Sav. The birch sap infused sparkling wine was just as good as you said it was and such a nice surprise!
Really enjoy you content so far and you are doing a great job. May i suggest an idea for future videos?I was thinking on book reccommendations on wines,i am reading "Vino the essential guide to real italian wine" and i have to say i love the material in there,straight to the point,some history,the grape of the wine,known families that produce it till today and more from all regions. Lately id like to learn about french wines and in my oppinion books overall are a good source (not for wines but generally speaking a book can get more accurate information then the usual media).
Kind Regards from Italy,
Schoenes Wochenende
I bought 6 bottles of Ratti Marcenasco Barolo 2019 vintage and opened one of them last weekend. The wine wasn't in anyhow ready yet, but still could sense the complexity of the wine. The idea was that since we bought a wine cabin in the spring now it's good time to use it. Next bottle will be opened next Christmas to see what will has happened to wine, and naturally Christmas after that and so on... Not a wine expert yet, but thanks to Konstantin, slowly learning new things... This was the first time I'm doing something like this. Have a great Christmas everyone!
Hi, thanks for a great “Tour d’Horizon” of your wine year. We have loved following you this year and look forward to 2024.
If you ever consider leading a tour to some of your favourite German vineyards we would be very interested.
Our own top wine moment was visiting Castillo de Cuzcurrita in Rioja and tasting bit their red wines, but also an amazing Viura from 120 year old vines.
Do be cautious with the “Bucky”. Much beloved of Glaswegians with a love for alcohol. Various conjectures as to why; Celtic fans who recall the taste of communion wine being one suggestion. I think it is still illegal in The USA because of its caffeine content but maybe the new expressions have adjusted this. Have great holidays and we will join you in staying thirsty 🎉🎉
Frohe Weihnachten
Champagnes from both Pierre and Robert Moncuit are such a treat and tremendous value for money! Earlier this year I participated in champagne tasting in which Pierre Moncuit BdB Grand Cru Enotheque 2004 was shining with its depth and complexity brighter than Salon and it costs 80 euro. Thanks for another great video, Konstantin! Wojtek
My highlights this year.... Oregon Pinot from Bergstrom, chardonnay from Kumeu. Lots of champagne. Would love to see Bergstrom featured on this channel at some point, amazing producer.
Have you ever met Tim Atkin? Great insights on south African wine, feel like you would get on well. Cheers to 2024, thank you KB for sharing your experiences in 2023.
Dear Konstantin,
For 2 years I've been watching all your videos and most of them are great! Thank you for bringing us all free wine knowledge. It helped to built my collection!
For my further collection and interest, I would like a video series of the following: A comparison of 1 of the kings of a specific wine region versus 3 great value alternatives
For example, A Rayas or Beaucastel Hommage Chateauneuf versus 3 others in the price region 40 to €100
Or a Sassicaia Bolgheri versus Grattamaco and others around the €80 mark
And of course a Mouton Rothschild versus great other Left bank Bordeaux around the 50 to €200 mark
I wish you great holidays,
Paul
Thank you Paul - great idea
Thanks for an excellent video as always Konstantin! My favourite wine moment of 2023's gotta be from this September, when it just happened my parents had been married for 30 years and to celebrate that we went to have a several-course menu in a really good restaurant here in my hometown of Helsinki. The menu had a wine pairing made for it and as a wine nerd I had to get that.
And oh boy was I in for a ride, with the pairing starting with a white wine partly fermented with blueberry juice, which paired perfectly with the delicate fish appetizer it was served with. Also some of the best chenin blanc I've ever tasted with some roasted corn risotto. Everything was just delightful. And when the main course was served, the sommelier came to me himself with a bottle of Cotes du Rhône red (which I sadly did not have time to take a closer look at) which he said was not part of the pairing but since it is one of their better reds and the bottle was already open he thought he might as well not let it go to waste. And with the pureed chantarelle, tender beef steak and fermented chantarelles it was such a good pairing that it almost brought me to tears. Obviously the desserts and the wines paired with them were amazing, but that main course was something to die for.
But most importantly it was an amazing experience to share with people nearest and dearest to my heart. A memory that I will cherish for many many years to come.
Which restaurant? My experience in Helsinki with wine pairings is that they're usually no better than "eh, it doesn't conflict with the food"
@@tommilind6099 thats unfortunate, i have had many good pairings here. but that place was muru!
Maybe time for a blind tasting of Syrah from top producing countries and/or a blind tasting of the different appellations in Northern Rhone? Definitely time for more Syrah 🍷
Great video again Mr KB!
What blew my mind this year was Argentina:
- Still whites with flor ageing, usually very low production wines from some niche of producers (Michellini brothers, Riccitelli, Enemigo and some others....somewhat of a nerdy trend, but very interesting wines, and completely out of the box.
- Patagonian Reds, mainly Pinot Noir
- Criolla/Misson/Pais grape wines, mainly from very old vines from different regions, light, fresh and sometimes funky wines...
Meaning, no heavy, super concentrated wines from Argentina anymore, a whole new world to explore....like the Australian wine you mentioned on this video!
Cheers!
My greatest wine moment 2023 was to find back a 2014 Hofmann Tauberschwarz Probstberg which I put in my dad's cellar sometime ago and completely forgot about it. It will make a nice New Year's Eve. So maybe the greatest moment is yet to come.
Best wine moment for me was opening a magnum of 2004 Araujo Eisele Vineyard Syrah at Christmas dinner thinking I made a mistake leaving it for so long and it started out a young, fresh syrah with incredible depth that kept changing in the bottle the longer it sat. I was so glad to have opened and tasted that wine, it was a bottle at its peak.
Living in Scotland and watching you pull out a bottle of buckfast just after talking about the best wines you tried this year did make me buckle. Try it in a negroni, probably a better use for it that way. Great selection anyway! My highlight this year was definitely biondi brunello di montalcino riserva 2011 and Sassacaia 2011 side by side tasting. Not having to pay a penny definitely made it taste even better.
Cabernet Franc is such an underrated variety. Really like Saumur-Champigny, like Domaine des Closiers. Just amazing balance and concentration.
I watch you mainly for the humor, though it’s usually unintentional. Hahaha! Cheers, and Happy New Year.
It think it is all unintentional
I understand the issue of collecting empty bottles 🙂In 2023, I added the Brunello di Montalcino Le Ragnaie 2017 to my collection. Very recommendable. Looking forward to your videos in 2024.
Thank you Konstantin for the amazing content produced over the year. I am still curious about the pinot noir u made inside the celler, are they still ok, or become rubbish already 😂
I just had a great bottle of Morey Chassagne-Montrache at Greycliff in Nassau, It was treat to take a small tour of their cellar as well.
Favorite wine moment this year was finally visiting more California wine regions: Sonoma and Paso Robles. Great some stellar Pinot and Syrah from Sonoma. And some amazing Grenache from Paso.
Funny you mention Cabernet Franc there at the end because it's what I'm drinking right now. This one is from Mendosa in Argentina, and I like it quite a lot. Definitely worth exploring, and reasonably priced, as Argentine wines tend to be.
Glad to see Spatburgunder here! 👍👍
Hello Konstantin,
again a great job in 2023! IMHO the wine blog with the highest quality. I'm already looking forward to your videos in 2024.
Sorry, I cannot decide which was the greatest wine moment in 2023 but these wines were all perfect (100P):
Molitor 2013 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese *** (golden capsule)
Staatsweingüter Eltville 1971 Erbacher Marcobrunn Riesling TBA
Paul Hobbs 2015 Beckstoffer Dr. Krane
Robert Mondavi 1967 Cabernet Sauvignon
Giacomo Conterno 2002 Barolo Monfortino Riserva
Roederer 2008 Cristal
Kongsgaard 2014 Chardonnay The Judge
Dunn 1991 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain
Friedrich Becker 2019 Pinot Noir Hommage
When you taste Syrah, you should add one of the top German Syrahs like Ziereisen, Martin Waßmer or Salwey.
I don't know how surprising this moment is but it was the most memorable one in 2023. And it is about cabernet franc. I've visited Central Loire three times now and every time I've visited Bernard Baudry. This domaine just keeps delivering time after time and my visit this time was no different. Super quality and reasonable prices. What more can you hope for!
That's a good list, nice to see 2 Japan wine making the list. I'm hoping to see Korean or NZ wines make it to your list next year!
My wine moment of the year was getting a chance to try Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2. You could literally smell the aroma of the wine over a meter away from the glass. And it was delicious! If I was made of money, I'd bathe in this stuff
Invite me to the chaputier tasting please. It's a bucket list wine for me. White Rhone is so underrated! Nice vid
Love to hear what you think about Jacky Blot wines. His cabermet francs are delicious, and amazing value. Happy Holidays.
Favourite wine moments - being gifted a 2013 Pine Ridge Fortis (well outside my wine budget), but more generally, exploring Italian IGT's. The rising quality and creativity of Italian wineries using the IGT classification - including some of larger "mass producers" - is giving us some really delicious wines at great prices.
I actually can't believe you are going to try 'Buckfast'. A drink of my party days before I got some sense and got into the world of wine! I'll not give to much away but please make a video when you taste it I want to see your reaction 😅😂
I've tasted many wines this year. More than in my entire life. From the cheapest to the wine for average consumer. I went to my first wine tasting this year and later went to another more professional tasting. I started to drink wines that are not popular in Puerto Rico. I haven't ditched the Spanish wines as I still have many left in my cellar. This I tasted my first riesling and have fallen in love with the style. I tried my first Cabernet Franc, chianti and bonarda. I have also rediscovered Merlot and I have some excellent Chilean and French bottles. Over all I have collected over 50 corks this year and I have drank more than that.
I hope to try more Shiraz and sirah, Cabernet franc, Tannat and finally taste a Dom Perignon to celebrate on me getting my Masters degree.
You have been a great help in making me understand and appreciate wine. And have gotten me curious to go out and learn for myself even more.
Thank you 🙏
Discovering Vouvray was my top 2023 wine moment. Great middle taste kind of wine, the ones I had didn't overwhelm me but they were all great in all of its styles and that for around 15 EUR a bottle.
I deeply appreciate that you often include 'in my opinion' in your evaluations on wines. I often hear people say, 'this is the best song' or 'this is the best place to get ribs' or 'this is the best restaurant' - etc, etc, - and it rakes against my sensibilities when people state their opinions as facts and actually believe their opinions to be facts. Thank you for being self-aware enough to know the difference between opinion and objective reality and for reinforcing this awareness in your commentaries on wine. Even though I fully appreciate your expertise in wine (I wouldn't keep watching your videos if I didn't) I remind myself that my own 'indelicate' palate (I had surgery to remove polyps from my nasal cavity twelve years ago so that my own sense of taste and smell has been reduced by 80 percent) would probably perceive many of the wines you taste in a very different fashion. I have to go for very robust and maybe 'intrusive' flavors in order to taste them at all. That is part of why I love watching your videos. Your descriptions of the flavors and tastes helps to connect me to the wine and taste it from your words since I would never be able to taste it on my own palate.
Soooo true, I have about 20 bottles that have been set aside for a special occasion that never arrived.
Last year I tasted some aged Austrian Sauvignon Blanc from Lackner/Tinnacher, very nice and complex wihte wine. It will stay in my cellar for some time. Grüner Veltliner is a real treat, there are lots of relative inexpensive and very good examples out there.
Being blown away by a bottle of Jim Barry Armagh 2012. This was a spectacular shiraz.
Agreed! Had two bottles of that vintage in 2023, have two more stashed away for special occasions 😃
Wow and a Japanese red wine, I'd love to try one sometime!!
Konstantin! Bitte, bitte eine reise nach Südafrika! Please visit the Ken Forrester vineyards. Just been there. It was owned and run by two german families successively for 260 years and Ken was part of the revival of quality Chenin in South Africa. The descendants of Friedrich Boot from Gotha who became the infamous Botha family and then Scholtzenhof til Ken took over. Can tell you more if interested.
Please do a comparison tasting on French and South African Chenin.
My best wine moment of the year was with a Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru Muenchberg A360P 2004, from Domaine Ostertag. I was floored by the complexity, the intense fruit notes combined with walnuts, and the perfect balance in acidity and body. Just like Konstantin, I kept the empty bottle to commemorate the experience 😅
My best wine experience in 2023 was in Bilbao, Spain at Kate Zaharra. 2 of my friends from college reunited in Spain after 25 years and hiked 84 miles of the Camino de Santiago. Dinking the 2009 La Rioja Alta 904 and having lunch high on the hillside in Bilbao was the perfect ending to this trip. That wine is an experience.
Super Video Konstantin, aber mehr als die vorgestellten Weine gefällt mir immer noch dein Keller😅👋
For me, this year's wine was... Yves Cuilleron's 2021 Condrieu les Chaillets. Such a beautiful example of Viognier from what I believe is its greatest terroir.
I have had some order bottles of Feuzel like 12+ years old white wine, all amazing
What resources have you been using to learn about sake? I've been wanting to do the same and I'm not sure where to start.
Nicely done. Is the white hermitage made from Viogner? Covid has blocked my nose, so no wine for me until I recover. A favorite from this year was…I can’t remember (thanks Covid😅)
Good luck with the recovery. It is a Marsanne
Tolles Video
Zwecks Syrah kann ich den Winzer
Francois Villard empfehlen
Côte-Rôtie Le Gallet Blanc
Toller Syrah
I have bought 2022 Newton Johnson family vineyard Pinot and Chardonnay. Should I keep and age for a while or drink right now😊
I had my last 2001 Château De Fieuzal last year... It was fresh has a rose, stil vibrant with a wonderful cire d'abeille and white flower taste. It aged beautifully. Hopefully, yours did too.
Had the absolute pleasure of tasting the Selosse VO - that would probably be the one highlight of the year…but otherwise there are many:
Grusse en Billat from Jean Francois Ganevat, Armada Vineyard by Cayuse, Schätzel Pettental Riesling, Njord Issø among others
….for your syrah theme, check out Cayuse - and remember to include the New York Finger Lakes in your cab franc tasting❤
Cooles Video, danke für deine Arbeit und die hilfreichen Empfehlungen - da werd' ich mir doch gleich ein paar Sachen abschauen! :D Kleine Anmerkung: Coravin ist kein CO2, sondern fast reines Argongas.
I've drank quite some good wine in 2023. Currently the one I remember the most would be the 2011 Damilano Barolo Cerequio. It was in a fabulous place, complex, intense and great length.
And I completely agree with cabernet franc. I always want more of them in my cellar, but I keep drinking them when I get them 😅. Last one I enjoyed was the 2017 château de Fosse-Sèche eolithe. Very pure.
My favorite wine experience of the year 2023 was a white wine: Odinstal 2020 240N.N. Rieslaner. Simply mind blowing!❤
My 2023 highlights:
#1 Aconcagua Costa Pinor Noir - Errazuriz
#2 Malagousia Single Vineyard - Ktima Gerovassiliou
#3 Chateauneuf du Pape - Pasquier Desvignes
You should try Repour for preserving wine. I had a Malbec under a repour for 18 months, and it tasted perfect as the day it was opened, and this was a half bottle removed, not just a small amount pulled from the top. I have also experimented with a Viognier that was repour for 4 years, and when I opened it and finally poured it out, it was still green around the edges and bright. Quite amazing, especially compared to Coravin
question, have you ever used repour twice. for ex, you open a bottle, pour out a third, then the next day you pour out another third, and then finally the next day you finish off the bottle. Does repour hold up being put on, taken off, and being put on again? just curious, thanks!
@@jcbd9415 yes. I actually do this all the time. I did some experiments early on, and you can pour out (7) pours of 3 oz a piece and still works. However, If I get half way through a really great bottle, I just put another one in. Better to spend $1.25 on a new repour than pour our $100 worth of wine.
@@MyWillbot gotcha, I might buy a handful. It's tough for me to splurge on wine right now because I know that I'll end up needing to drink the whole thing. This'll make drinking better wines way more affordable since I can drink them over three different sessions. Thanks!
I will wait a little longer before opening the second bottle, but the 2016 Pontet-Canet blew me away!
This made me go through the wines of my year. My most memorable ones have been whites it seems. Had an aged Savagnin from Arbois that blew my mind, an awesome 2015 Alsace Riesling from Albert Boxler, a wonderful classic Chablis from 2014 and right now I’m sipping on a fab 20 yo Tawny Port. Also had my first mature first growths Bordeaux, a 95 Haut Brion. Very nice though maybe a small letdown given the expectations
Domaine Meo Camuzet Bourgogne with a simple roast chicken and a quiet evening with my wife. The combination of the wine and great company can’t be beat. Frohe Weihnachten.
Happy to hear that I'm in good company in collecting wine bottles... now that I have found purpose for them, let me share their new use ... as flower borders in my gardens, punts holding waters for the pollinators
You should give Kershaw's Syrah wines a try, he makes amazing South African cooler climate Syrah! Maybe fun to try the clonal selection, and then the two deconstructed wines made with the 22 clone on granite and the 9c clone on shale :) perhaps even add a Mullineux in there for fun 😄
Buckfast, the national drink of the west coast of Scotland. I use it to make Glogg, goes a treat mixed with a half bottle of brandy for Christmas.
Wine moment of 2023. Tasting Domaine Prieure Roch for the first time to celebrate a promotion. Was every bit worth the hype. Would love to see you try some on the channel.
I have enjoyed your various programs and my knowledge of wines has grown exponentially. One suggestion. Show the labels of the wine so we can capture/ read the producers/wineries and be able t purchase them. Another method I have seen on other channels is to have the information captioned so that we can make sure we have the correct information to purchase.
The CVNE monopole classic rioja blanco (and the reserva) are amazing white wines that deserve a shout as well imo
Hi Konstantin, I think you mixed up the location of Bernhard Huber! Their winery is in Malterdingen in Breisgau, not in the Kaiserstühl, and this Schlossberg is in Hecklingen, which also isn't a part of the Kaiserstühl
Did I?! Yes it is the Breisgau - you are right!
My best wine moment of 2023 was definitely going to Provence France for the 1st time for my birthday in July 😎
My favourite wine of 2023 is Albamar Albino 2022. Its a still white wine made with a red autoctonous (Galicia) varietal called Caiño Tinto and its aged for 11 months in French oak . The difference between the nose and mouth its really intriguing and invite you to drink more and more. Crazy wine! If you find it give it a try for sure.
More trips please, they are great. What about one to England in the spring? What about a trip to the Niagara area?
My wine moment of the year was tasting 1990 Aldo Conterno Cicala and Colonnello side by side. The Cicala still had so much fresh fruit and could have aged much longer. Both wines were beautiful but very different.
My biggest positive surprise this year was a 2014 Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas Terres Brulée that was such a perfect wine with a roasted duck, it made me feel like an expert for ordering it.
Ive recently been looking to get more into sake, but it can be quite intimidating (especially since the import costs sometimes can be quite crazy)
That first bottle looks epically.
What do you think of the producer Erbeldinger? I have found their pinot noir and weissburgunder to be quite delicious in both entry level and reserve form.
Konstatin, Cab Franc --> You MUST taste Gran Enemigo Cab Francs then! ... Go straight for the gold and Gualtallery vineyard and grab a 2019 or a 2013 if you can find it! The 2019 is fresh with freshness on top and cherry EXPLOSION in your nose and just super thick and delicious as HELL right now!