You have a wonderful way with words, Konstantin. Clear and evocative. I feel like I am tasting the wines right along with you. Great stuff! Thanks much.
As for the wax capsules, I always just turn in the corkscrew and pull the cork out. Doing so the seal breaks. Never had problems with wax entering the bottle. And especially for the really hard waxes this is the best trick!
Dido 2019 is a 4.1 on Vivino, which from my experience with Vivino indicates a high quality wine. I would suggest to check the vintage scores instead of average scores. There is sometimes significant difference between vintages.
I used to struggle with the wax seal, but a sommelier who worked mostly with natural wines (where wax seals are more common) taught me to just screw the wine opener through the wax and into the cork. When you pull it up, the wax around the opening comes off with the cork. You might still have to clean it up a little, but its a lot cleaner than trying to remove the wax before pulling the cork.
Excellent video again!! Thank you very much! If if would have a vote, please do something about my favorite grape - the Nebbiolo. Maybe some Barolo, some Barbaresco, some Langhe and some Roero? In any case - please keep it up.
good episode again. Love watching these where you're tasting wines that are easily accessible for us mere mortals :) Best buys on vivino...hmm, Cheval des Andes, Argentina and Albis, Chile immediately pops into my head. Also, I've recently discovered german spätburgunder and would really love to see an episode about that. Looking forward to the next one. All the best.
Don't bother, the good German Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) are expensive and for the same money, you can buy better quality from other countries...., But I love the Blanc de Noirs from the Ahr (German 'White-Salmon' color Spätburgunder)
Am really enjoying your videos. You're quite knowledgeable, have a down to earth style of communicating, and are helping us add nice wines to our list. Thanks.
I ordered 4 bottles of Dido after this video! Tastes just like how you described - in a blind tasting, I would have said that it tastes like Chateauneuf du pope. Thanks a lot!!
I was looking to explore wines from Portugal, which I had no knowledge of, so I took a chance on a wine highly recommended by the Vivino Community which at the time gave it a 4.4 rating for bottle priced around $20 USD. Curiosity got the best of me, and I was very glad it did. I was very impressed with the quality/price ratio of Cartuxa Evora Colheita Tinto 2016, as it tasted well above its price point. I have not tried the most current vintage, but the 2016 was indeed case worthy.
@@_APV_ 4.8 wines in Vivino are like €300 and upwards usually, often a lot more. Like great vintages from Haut Brion, Petrus, Mouton Rothchild, Lafleur, Romanee Conti, etc. Basically Bordeaux and Burgundy. Some Amarones and Barbarescos too
@@rykehuss3435 Something changed in the algorithm since the time I wrote it, I think, pretty sure there were wines under 100 or even under 50 before. Maybe the search now doesn't show the wine as 4.8 unless it has a lot of reviews.
Yep, enjoying these videos. I use the Vivino app on my phone when thinking of buying a wine I haven't tried before or if I just want to get an indication of other wine drinkers' thoughts and experiences. I agree: Vivino doesn't really indicate any the price to quality ratio, so often I'd read the comments as a guide to whether I might enjoy that particular wine style. I feel after drinking a lot of wine, I can now use my palate to make reasonable judgement about a wine's quality. I'm heading towards wines with more complexity and a longer finish....costs more but I guess quality over quantity. Cheers Tony
Hi Konstantinos, i very much enjoy your videos that i discovered a few days ago. I had a few real germs i found on Vivino. One of them is the Tenuta Ulisse Merlot rose, which at around 10 Euros is an incredible value. Another one that i enjoyed very much is a Spanish Cava, Biutiful. Also an excellent price/quality value. I’ll end with a slightly more expensive wine, which i believe is around 20 E, Eremo San Quirino Nativ, which has 99 points on Luca Maroni, and is a very good red. Impossible to find a Bordeaux or Bourgogne of that quality at that price point.
Konstantin - I am loving your videos! I am based in Northern California and currently am obsessed with Northern Rhone reds. Really enjoying your style, and the film nerd in me loves seeing the consistent white balance between your 2 cameras :) Can't wait for more!
When wine is bottled sulfur dioxide is often used to displace any oxygen in the bottle so that the wine doesn't oxidize in the bottle. Although these wines are too young to throw any sediment it's still a good idea to decant them which allows the sulfur dioxide to escape. Allowing it some time to breathe can help too. Just a suggestion. One of my favorite wines I ever drank was 1982 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet sauvignon. Wine Spectator rated it 90 and it cost $12 bur wow what a surprise. I only bought one case. One year I bought two cases of bin 389 from 2 sources. One case was excellent, the other was defective and had to be returned.
There're so many good Saint Emilions, Amarones, Barolos, Chateauneuf du Papes in this price range. Montsant, Penedes, Cadiz, Navarra.... in general Spain, South of Italy and Sicily are producing very good value for money wines. Not to mention the unique Chateau Musar from Lebanon..... can easely compete with plenty of more expensive wines.
could you do maybe a video where you explain the difference between the pinot noir varieties in Germany? I find more and more by the day, spatburgunder, blauburgunder.. thanks!
Sometimes the Vivino scores differ quite a lot between vintages. The Dido has an overall score of only 3.9 but the 2019 vintage has a score of 4.1, which is quite high on Vivino.
The other thing is taste is in the eye of the beholder. Different people gravitate towards different wine style. There's no rule that says wines that taste like Bordeaux blends are the be all end all of good wines. Some people prefer the more robust wine styles features in Primitivos, Nero D'Avola and Montepulciano based wines out of Italy. If for someone a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is a 5.0 perfect wine then who is anyone else to tell them it is not? I recognize the inherent bias Konstatin has against these types of wines by claiming just because they're not elegant and refined, doesn't make them top quality wines. But that automatically assumes that you agree with the concept robust wines are automatically inferior to elegant and refined wines. No one can say that is a fact.
I only use Vivino as an indicator. Vine at Vivino tend to score high if they are bold, fruity and powerful. You can find many Primitivo which score high. The thing is, that I don't like these wines - I prefer wine with tannins and terroir. Rhone, south of France, Piemonte and north of Italy in general. Sometomes I also go for Garnacha from north of Spain, which can be very good as you point out. I would like to see more wine from Portugal, hence they produce interesting and very good wine. Thanks for your channel!
Hey :-) Have recently found your channel, and i REALLY like it! love the videos, and looking forward to many more. Just ordered a case of DIDO, will look forward to taste it.
you may find some Rose wine from big bordeaux names (Haut Bailly, domaine du Chevalier....) they are relatively affordable and deliver an amazing QPR. Then if you go to some less famous region in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France...you certainly can find great value - in France IGP Gascogne offers beautiful white at insane prices (domaine de l'Herre for instance). In Puglia you also can find very good value wine...In these regions they have the terroir and the know-how but being in the shadow of bigger appelations they just cannot charge too much...
Would love to see a video on wines from Mexico (Valle de Guadalup or Valle de Parras) and from Canada (Okanagan Valley)! Anyways, love watching these videos on Fridays with my wife, glass of wine in hand, and some good food. Salud!
As stated before I have never found or bought a wine on vivino but to answer you question at least a far as possible: Two vines I really love are also sold on vivino which are: "El Cadastro" and its big brother "El Quemado" by Olivier Rivière (D.O. Arlanza) which both got a really good rating of 3.9 and 4.1 stars.
Pricing remains mostly a mystery to me. I get some of the production aspects, and I sort of know what to expect from a 5 Euro wine. Most of my favorites are 15-20 which I think makes an actual difference in structure and overall taste. I get why Barolo or Rioja Gran Reserva start at 30-50 Euros. Anything north of that is hard for me to understand (and therefore, buy). Is there actual "better" quality and taste in over 50 Euro wines (or more)? And, more important, could you explore that in a video? 😉
Brilliant marketing is what convinces people that a bottle of wine, made from grapes grown in the most hallowed grown on the planet, is worth a few hundred dollars!? To some degree spot of ground is indeed very important. Climate is next in importance, then the grape varietals, then the winemaker. I am an experienced winemaker and know how important all the facets are that go into a single bottle of wine. That being said, to me personally, having tasted many expensive wines in my career, I find none of them worth more than $100 a bottle. Many very good wines can be found for under $50 a bottle. You just have to know what to look for. And the expert’s ratings…???? Proceed with caution……
Some time ago I tasted the Penfold's MAX 2014 and 2015 scoring them 87 and 90 points respectively, so your score of 88 points on the 2019 gives me a sense of a good subjective judgment. I'm no Master of wine, but for almost thirteen years now have paid a good bit of attention to what I'm drinking (taste, taste, and taste).
I'm so glad you're showing people not to trust vivino reviews, which are not necessarily about the quality and very subjective. Individual's taste preference can be very different from your own. The key is to learn what type of wines that you like and to keep exploring because there are so many types of great, inexpensive wines out there.
I spent some time this summer in Moldova and tried quite a few interesting wines there, not necessarily in the positive sense :-) I have noticed that the wines from Château Purcari have an unusually high Vivino scores for the price they are retailing for. The Purcari Gewürztraminer has for example 4.4 points on Vivino and retails in Moldova for about 9€, in Germany for 15€, which is still very cheap for such a high score. Since you are now already onto the Vivino subject, it would be interesting to hear from you if you agree with the high Vivino score on these wines.
Great videos and really glad I came across your channel. From the wines I have tried from Vivino, I can recommend the Cubardi Primitivo 2017, as being my favourite to date. Rated at 4.3 and comes in for around £20. If you haven’t tried, highly recommend! Stay thirsty!
Omg I thought I was crazy for liking the Penfolds Max’s Shiraz Cabernet 2019 because I could not find anything about it on the internet. I liked it so much that I bought pretty much all the cases left in the country during a promotion and put them in my cellar to drink on weekdays 🍷 I have yet to find a better wine for the same price … zero regrets
Thanx for another great epsiode :-) In this video you say that the wine needs a bit of air in the glass. Could you maybe do an episode on airing wine (decantering)? For example what the point of decantering is - and whether it actually makes a difference to the wine
Davidum Pugnitello 4,5 on vivino It was a gift and felt very special, maybe it was since I got engaged that day but nevertheless I would say it was ve best wine I have tried so far
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Oh, my bad. The time stamp is 3:07, not 13:07. And I heard "thirteen" USD, not "thirty", that's why I got confused, because 13 USD is exactly 11 EUR so both prices are equal, but if it's 30 USD then yeah, big difference. But it's my hearing that's bad, not your pronunciation, the YT auto-generated subtitles picked it up correctly. I also looked up some USA prices, and it's hard to find it there in online shops, but the one I found was $16 which is not too bad.
Hi Konstantin, love the channel and videos! I will be cycling to Italy from Amsterdam in April, thus travelling through Germany -> want to also visit some of the winegroing areas and winehouses. Are there specific areas or houses that you recommend ?
Hi Konstantin. I like your videos. For me the Wine that started my interest in Wine was a 2011 Olivier Leflaive Pommard 1er Cru Epenots. I have never been able to track it Down since, and i would love to hear your take on it. To me is was the first time i could accurately pin out tastes and smells. I hope you will try it. PS if you track it Down, put me Down for a case og two😂
If divided by 2, your scores can be translated to vivino's 50 point system, but you, more often than not, are above 80 points what leads to >4 vivino stars. You noted this in your video as well. I tried to figure it out... it seems like the points you give above 80 are way more valuable than the points under 80. Almost like the Richter scale. Can you tell a bit about how your personal way of awarding points works? I love the lingo you use. Very understandable for regular folk like me.
How do you tell apart a Malbec from a Syrah in a blind tasting? You described them very similarly when you tasted them. The color is pretty dark and rich. The nose is blueberry, pepper. I'm no expert but I did a blind tasting where I was convinced I was drinking a Syrah and it turned out to be Malbec
He doesn't simply convert euro to dollar but names the prices of the wines in europe and the us. Import fees and stuff like this change the price in different regions.
Hi, I use Vivino quite a lot and I can assure that for 30Eur you have wines rated 4,3 points and even more, and 3,8 is not a high rating at all, being more an average for a lot of commercial wines.
I've stopped looking for wine on vivino exactly for the reasons you gave in one of your previous videos. It does not really represent well what I am looking for in wine - the fact that we deal with average score makes wine like Dido (which I love, and will use this occasion to open one bottle too today!) Get lost among multiple 4+ rated wines that I find mediocre. Great tasting! Great video! :)
Great video yet again Konstantin. So far the best wine (taste and price wise) I ordered through Vivino is the El Enemigo 2010 Cabernet Franc, from Mendoza Argentinia. I've got a question for you. I once had a German Chardonnay with not a lot of oak, I was tasting it along an elderly French Woman and she told me that it reminded her a lot of how Chablis used to taste. I can't remember the wine anymore and I did a little research in great German Chardonnays but so far just by reading the tasting notes most of them are trying to go for a buttery vanilla-y Montrachet kind of wine. Do you happen to know of some winemaker in Germany who want to express the grape the most in their wines?
Not really Chablis, but stylewise it is highclass and like burgundian chardonnay without beeing fat is Huber in Baden, but quiete pricey. Try the Alte Reben:)
Huber is one of the best Chardonnays outside of France anywhere on the globe. However Chablis to me is always represented by very little oak. Maybe a Chardonnay by Knewitz?
1000 likes for promoting the great riesling grape. The relatively low alcohol probably hinders its popularity among the 'boozing' wine crowd despite the obvious sophistication.
I wish you would make an episode on taste and smells. Also your collection of little bottles that contain fragrances or smells you have saved as reference. Love the tastings. Stay thirsty.
If you find that purple (which for me is more dark red than purple), you should see the wines from the Douro Valley, those are some true purple wines xD
Then again, there's an outrageous markup on American wines here in Europe. For example, the Finnish monopoly Alko (second biggest buyer in all of Europe) sells Stag's Leap Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 for 85€ or $98, while you can get the same wine for around $55 in California
Highest rate I have In my cellar 4.4. Maybe something for the South African video........ Lourensford Chrysalis Red (Zuid-AfrikCabernet sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet franc2016)
Ha Ha Ha ! Dido wine costs over $60 in Japan!!!!! This is the reason, every time I look up the prices of wines in countries originated from and compared to the price tag in Japan...... I feel getting ripped off by those distributers.... I hope i can personally order the bottles of my fave freely....someday... Peace and Love from Japan.
Konstantin Baum is the Jesse Pinkman of Wine(sorry I just seemed to notice a big resemblence in your and Aaron Paul's appearances) :) Du produzierst hochwertige Videos zu Wein Themas!
I don’t get why, if the Dido and Polkura got the same score, one is crowned as the absolute king and the other isn’t. Yes, I’m a Polkura fan, deal with it 😜
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Hi Konstantin, are you planning on doing a video showing us your wine collection? I think that would be a great video!
Fully agree
Yes yes yes
Seconded - a cellar tour would be great
Great idea!!
what an awesome idea, I would love to see that!
You have a wonderful way with words, Konstantin. Clear and evocative. I feel like I am tasting the wines right along with you. Great stuff! Thanks much.
Thanks!
I love that Dido from Monstant too!
As for the wax capsules, I always just turn in the corkscrew and pull the cork out. Doing so the seal breaks. Never had problems with wax entering the bottle. And especially for the really hard waxes this is the best trick!
Dido 2019 is a 4.1 on Vivino, which from my experience with Vivino indicates a high quality wine. I would suggest to check the vintage scores instead of average scores. There is sometimes significant difference between vintages.
I used to struggle with the wax seal, but a sommelier who worked mostly with natural wines (where wax seals are more common) taught me to just screw the wine opener through the wax and into the cork. When you pull it up, the wax around the opening comes off with the cork. You might still have to clean it up a little, but its a lot cleaner than trying to remove the wax before pulling the cork.
Yes, but sometimes the wax gets into the wine and I dont like that.
Excellent video again!! Thank you very much! If if would have a vote, please do something about my favorite grape - the Nebbiolo. Maybe some Barolo, some Barbaresco, some Langhe and some Roero? In any case - please keep it up.
good episode again. Love watching these where you're tasting wines that are easily accessible for us mere mortals :) Best buys on vivino...hmm, Cheval des Andes, Argentina and Albis, Chile immediately pops into my head. Also, I've recently discovered german spätburgunder and would really love to see an episode about that. Looking forward to the next one. All the best.
Don't bother, the good German Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) are expensive and for the same money, you can buy better quality from other countries...., But I love the Blanc de Noirs from the Ahr (German 'White-Salmon' color Spätburgunder)
I would love to see a tasting of the VIK wine range! Absolutely love your videos, my favourite wine youtuber
Seconded!
Am really enjoying your videos. You're quite knowledgeable, have a down to earth style of communicating, and are helping us add nice wines to our list. Thanks.
Great to hear!
I ordered 4 bottles of Dido after this video! Tastes just like how you described - in a blind tasting, I would have said that it tastes like Chateauneuf du pope. Thanks a lot!!
I was looking to explore wines from Portugal, which I had no knowledge of, so I took a chance on a wine highly recommended by the Vivino Community which at the time gave it a 4.4 rating for bottle priced around $20 USD. Curiosity got the best of me, and I was very glad it did. I was very impressed with the quality/price ratio of Cartuxa Evora Colheita Tinto 2016, as it tasted well above its price point. I have not tried the most current vintage, but the 2016 was indeed case worthy.
Portuguese, Georgian and Bulgarian wines are super good and budget
You should review wines rated 4.4 or 4.5 (with at least a 100 reviews) and above and tell us if they are really great wines based on the Vivino score
Or better yet, some 4.8 to see if it's really ~95/100
@@_APV_ 4.8 wines in Vivino are like €300 and upwards usually, often a lot more. Like great vintages from Haut Brion, Petrus, Mouton Rothchild, Lafleur, Romanee Conti, etc. Basically Bordeaux and Burgundy. Some Amarones and Barbarescos too
@@rykehuss3435 Something changed in the algorithm since the time I wrote it, I think, pretty sure there were wines under 100 or even under 50 before. Maybe the search now doesn't show the wine as 4.8 unless it has a lot of reviews.
Yep, enjoying these videos. I use the Vivino app on my phone when thinking of buying a wine I haven't tried before or if I just want to get an indication of other wine drinkers' thoughts and experiences. I agree: Vivino doesn't really indicate any the price to quality ratio, so often I'd read the comments as a guide to whether I might enjoy that particular wine style. I feel after drinking a lot of wine, I can now use my palate to make reasonable judgement about a wine's quality. I'm heading towards wines with more complexity and a longer finish....costs more but I guess quality over quantity.
Cheers
Tony
Hi Konstantinos, i very much enjoy your videos that i discovered a few days ago. I had a few real germs i found on Vivino. One of them is the Tenuta Ulisse Merlot rose, which at around 10 Euros is an incredible value. Another one that i enjoyed very much is a Spanish Cava, Biutiful. Also an excellent price/quality value. I’ll end with a slightly more expensive wine, which i believe is around 20 E, Eremo San Quirino Nativ, which has 99 points on Luca Maroni, and is a very good red. Impossible to find a Bordeaux or Bourgogne of that quality at that price point.
Konstantin - I am loving your videos! I am based in Northern California and currently am obsessed with Northern Rhone reds. Really enjoying your style, and the film nerd in me loves seeing the consistent white balance between your 2 cameras :) Can't wait for more!
😁
When wine is bottled sulfur dioxide is often used to displace any oxygen in the bottle so that the wine doesn't oxidize in the bottle. Although these wines are too young to throw any sediment it's still a good idea to decant them which allows the sulfur dioxide to escape. Allowing it some time to breathe can help too. Just a suggestion.
One of my favorite wines I ever drank was 1982 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet sauvignon. Wine Spectator rated it 90 and it cost $12 bur wow what a surprise. I only bought one case. One year I bought two cases of bin 389 from 2 sources. One case was excellent, the other was defective and had to be returned.
There're so many good Saint Emilions, Amarones, Barolos, Chateauneuf du Papes in this price range. Montsant, Penedes, Cadiz, Navarra.... in general Spain, South of Italy and Sicily are producing very good value for money wines. Not to mention the unique Chateau Musar from Lebanon..... can easely compete with plenty of more expensive wines.
could you do maybe a video where you explain the difference between the pinot noir varieties in Germany? I find more and more by the day, spatburgunder, blauburgunder.. thanks!
Sometimes the Vivino scores differ quite a lot between vintages. The Dido has an overall score of only 3.9 but the 2019 vintage has a score of 4.1, which is quite high on Vivino.
The other thing is taste is in the eye of the beholder. Different people gravitate towards different wine style. There's no rule that says wines that taste like Bordeaux blends are the be all end all of good wines. Some people prefer the more robust wine styles features in Primitivos, Nero D'Avola and Montepulciano based wines out of Italy. If for someone a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is a 5.0 perfect wine then who is anyone else to tell them it is not? I recognize the inherent bias Konstatin has against these types of wines by claiming just because they're not elegant and refined, doesn't make them top quality wines. But that automatically assumes that you agree with the concept robust wines are automatically inferior to elegant and refined wines. No one can say that is a fact.
Great video Konstantin! Could you do a Wine in 10 on Zinfandel? And I second the idea on your wine collection, that would be great!
I only use Vivino as an indicator. Vine at Vivino tend to score high if they are bold, fruity and powerful. You can find many Primitivo which score high. The thing is, that I don't like these wines - I prefer wine with tannins and terroir. Rhone, south of France, Piemonte and north of Italy in general. Sometomes I also go for Garnacha from north of Spain, which can be very good as you point out. I would like to see more wine from Portugal, hence they produce interesting and very good wine. Thanks for your channel!
Well done I love the review, thank you from South Africa.
Great channel. From Vivino one of my favorite is the 62 aniversario primitivo. I like your thoughts on it.
Thanks
Hey :-) Have recently found your channel, and i REALLY like it! love the videos, and looking forward to many more. Just ordered a case of DIDO, will look forward to taste it.
Enjoy!
A superb review. Thank you.
Being born in South Africa, I would love for you to do a Pinotage - Wine in 10. So many people are unaware of this marvelous grape. Great videos!
In my opinion there are only a few good Pinotage Wines, unfortunately most of them are🤢
Hey Konstantin, great video! Do you still work with belvini? Would love to see a video in which you talk about your 5 Crowns-Wines. Thank you!
I love your channel, it's very inspiring and make me want to taste and learn more about wine.
you may find some Rose wine from big bordeaux names (Haut Bailly, domaine du Chevalier....) they are relatively affordable and deliver an amazing QPR. Then if you go to some less famous region in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France...you certainly can find great value - in France IGP Gascogne offers beautiful white at insane prices (domaine de l'Herre for instance). In Puglia you also can find very good value wine...In these regions they have the terroir and the know-how but being in the shadow of bigger appelations they just cannot charge too much...
Hi Konstantin, i would love to see a video where you showed us your Wine cellar😊
Noted!
Would love to see a video on wines from Mexico (Valle de Guadalup or Valle de Parras) and from Canada (Okanagan Valley)! Anyways, love watching these videos on Fridays with my wife, glass of wine in hand, and some good food. Salud!
As stated before I have never found or bought a wine on vivino but to answer you question at least a far as possible: Two vines I really love are also sold on vivino which are: "El Cadastro" and its big brother "El Quemado" by Olivier Rivière (D.O. Arlanza) which both got a really good rating of 3.9 and 4.1 stars.
Pricing remains mostly a mystery to me. I get some of the production aspects, and I sort of know what to expect from a 5 Euro wine. Most of my favorites are 15-20 which I think makes an actual difference in structure and overall taste. I get why Barolo or Rioja Gran Reserva start at 30-50 Euros. Anything north of that is hard for me to understand (and therefore, buy). Is there actual "better" quality and taste in over 50 Euro wines (or more)? And, more important, could you explore that in a video? 😉
So much that goes into pricing but ofc there are some trying to take advantage of wealthy people that buy only expensive wine
Brilliant marketing is what convinces people that a bottle of wine, made from grapes grown in the most hallowed grown on the planet, is worth a few hundred dollars!? To some degree spot of ground is indeed very important. Climate is next in importance, then the grape varietals, then the winemaker. I am an experienced winemaker and know how important all the facets are that go into a single bottle of wine. That being said, to me personally, having tasted many expensive wines in my career, I find none of them worth more than $100 a bottle. Many very good wines can be found for under $50 a bottle. You just have to know what to look for. And the expert’s ratings…???? Proceed with caution……
Alcohol is a pretty marketing driven field. High end food and drinks in general are pretty marketing driven.
Amo estos capítulos, muy interesante como un MW hace el análisis vs los usuarios de vivino. Gracias Konstantin
Another very helpful video! I'd love to see you do one for Wein & Vinos. 😉
😬
Some time ago I tasted the Penfold's MAX 2014 and 2015 scoring them 87 and 90 points respectively, so your score of 88 points on the 2019 gives me a sense of a good subjective judgment. I'm no Master of wine, but for almost thirteen years now have paid a good bit of attention to what I'm drinking (taste, taste, and taste).
I'm so glad you're showing people not to trust vivino reviews, which are not necessarily about the quality and very subjective. Individual's taste preference can be very different from your own. The key is to learn what type of wines that you like and to keep exploring because there are so many types of great, inexpensive wines out there.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi konstantin, I am very new to wine and would like to know what is the best percentage of alcohol to have in a red wine ?
I spent some time this summer in Moldova and tried quite a few interesting wines there, not necessarily in the positive sense :-) I have noticed that the wines from Château Purcari have an unusually high Vivino scores for the price they are retailing for. The Purcari Gewürztraminer has for example 4.4 points on Vivino and retails in Moldova for about 9€, in Germany for 15€, which is still very cheap for such a high score. Since you are now already onto the Vivino subject, it would be interesting to hear from you if you agree with the high Vivino score on these wines.
Saperavi Gitana 4.5 from Moldova, love it
The Binomio is now £34.99 here in the uk. Maybe your review spread the word and increased demand
Great videos and really glad I came across your channel. From the wines I have tried from Vivino, I can recommend the Cubardi Primitivo 2017, as being my favourite to date. Rated at 4.3 and comes in for around £20. If you haven’t tried, highly recommend! Stay thirsty!
Omg I thought I was crazy for liking the Penfolds Max’s Shiraz Cabernet 2019 because I could not find anything about it on the internet. I liked it so much that I bought pretty much all the cases left in the country during a promotion and put them in my cellar to drink on weekdays 🍷 I have yet to find a better wine for the same price … zero regrets
Konstantin thank you 😊
Do you think the 2020 version of the dido Universal is very different?
Not sure - have not tasted it. But I would guess it is pretty good too.
Hi Konstantin, great video again. What glass did you use in the video? Thanks!
Thanks! It is in the description - the Riedel Perfomance Riesling
Thanks!!
Great video, Konstantin! I, for one, would love to see a dornfelder tasting. Are you brave enough? 😉
I am not sure ...
Thanx for another great epsiode :-)
In this video you say that the wine needs a bit of air in the glass.
Could you maybe do an episode on airing wine (decantering)?
For example what the point of decantering is - and whether it actually makes a difference to the wine
Davidum Pugnitello 4,5 on vivino
It was a gift and felt very special, maybe it was since I got engaged that day but nevertheless I would say it was ve best wine I have tried so far
3:07 11 EUR is good value, but 13 USD is not? They're pretty much exactly the same 13 USD is 11.01 EUR atm, or am I not getting something?
I am not sure what you are referring to?
Time Stamp is off, but I think he's saying 11 EUR vs 30 USD (USD price referenced earlier in the video).
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Oh, my bad. The time stamp is 3:07, not 13:07. And I heard "thirteen" USD, not "thirty", that's why I got confused, because 13 USD is exactly 11 EUR so both prices are equal, but if it's 30 USD then yeah, big difference. But it's my hearing that's bad, not your pronunciation, the YT auto-generated subtitles picked it up correctly.
I also looked up some USA prices, and it's hard to find it there in online shops, but the one I found was $16 which is not too bad.
Hi Konstantin, love the channel and videos! I will be cycling to Italy from Amsterdam in April, thus travelling through Germany -> want to also visit some of the winegroing areas and winehouses. Are there specific areas or houses that you recommend ?
Hi Konstantin, Wil je make a tasting video of Château d'Yquem vs a German TBA. That would be a great comparison.
The best value from Vivino, for me until today would be Marrone Nebbiolo d’Alba Agrestis, 2018.
Best wine I've ever found on vivino was the 2018 Carillion single barrel chardonnay from Orange NSW, an inspiring and funky chardonnay
Hi Konstantin. I like your videos.
For me the Wine that started my interest in Wine was a 2011 Olivier Leflaive Pommard 1er Cru Epenots. I have never been able to track it Down since, and i would love to hear your take on it. To me is was the first time i could accurately pin out tastes and smells. I hope you will try it.
PS if you track it Down, put me Down for a case og two😂
Riedel Performance series at work here, eh? XD interesting video, very informative, i like, even though i stopped using vivino years ago
Glad you enjoyed it!
If divided by 2, your scores can be translated to vivino's 50 point system, but you, more often than not, are above 80 points what leads to >4 vivino stars. You noted this in your video as well. I tried to figure it out... it seems like the points you give above 80 are way more valuable than the points under 80. Almost like the Richter scale. Can you tell a bit about how your personal way of awarding points works? I love the lingo you use. Very understandable for regular folk like me.
How do you tell apart a Malbec from a Syrah in a blind tasting? You described them very similarly when you tasted them. The color is pretty dark and rich. The nose is blueberry, pepper. I'm no expert but I did a blind tasting where I was convinced I was drinking a Syrah and it turned out to be Malbec
Throw those corks, LOL. Love it!
Bitte mehr davon! Super Videos und Grüße ✌🏻😁
What is the average price of the wines you usually drink?
Maybe 20 Euros
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine I thought that the average price was way higher
13 euro is 15.36 usd .. Is there a mistake with excahnge rates? many conversitions you mentioned is bit off the target
He doesn't simply convert euro to dollar but names the prices of the wines in europe and the us. Import fees and stuff like this change the price in different regions.
Thank you , l get it
Hi, I use Vivino quite a lot and I can assure that for 30Eur you have wines rated 4,3 points and even more, and 3,8 is not a high rating at all, being more an average for a lot of commercial wines.
Well, possibly. I also looked for wines that are widely available, that limits the selection
I've stopped looking for wine on vivino exactly for the reasons you gave in one of your previous videos. It does not really represent well what I am looking for in wine - the fact that we deal with average score makes wine like Dido (which I love, and will use this occasion to open one bottle too today!) Get lost among multiple 4+ rated wines that I find mediocre.
Great tasting! Great video! :)
Polkura costs around the equivalent to 50 Euros in Brazil, would you believe?
Crazy!
Great video yet again Konstantin. So far the best wine (taste and price wise) I ordered through Vivino is the El Enemigo 2010 Cabernet Franc, from Mendoza Argentinia. I've got a question for you. I once had a German Chardonnay with not a lot of oak, I was tasting it along an elderly French Woman and she told me that it reminded her a lot of how Chablis used to taste. I can't remember the wine anymore and I did a little research in great German Chardonnays but so far just by reading the tasting notes most of them are trying to go for a buttery vanilla-y Montrachet kind of wine. Do you happen to know of some winemaker in Germany who want to express the grape the most in their wines?
Not really Chablis, but stylewise it is highclass and like burgundian chardonnay without beeing fat is Huber in Baden, but quiete pricey. Try the Alte Reben:)
Huber is one of the best Chardonnays outside of France anywhere on the globe. However Chablis to me is always represented by very little oak. Maybe a Chardonnay by Knewitz?
Great suggestions here. I also really like Huber and Knewitz
1000 likes for promoting the great riesling grape. The relatively low alcohol probably hinders its popularity among the 'boozing' wine crowd despite the obvious sophistication.
I wish you would make an episode on taste and smells. Also your collection of little bottles that contain fragrances or smells you have saved as reference. Love the tastings. Stay thirsty.
My favorite was Primo Amore Moscato delle Venezie 2016
Keep em comin'!!
Interesting. Penfolds Max's in Australia is cheap and comes with a screw cap.
Hey what glass are you drinking from?
Asked the same question! Maybe Riedel Veritas Champagne….we’ll see
@@elliothm8370 I think it’s performance Syrah.
Riedel Performance line… most probably the riesling glass
Yeap, a Riedel Performance
Good guess. I put it below the video.
If you find that purple (which for me is more dark red than purple), you should see the wines from the Douro Valley, those are some true purple wines xD
Master, what wine glass did you use? Gorgeously elegant
Riedel Performance Riesling
Outro: Moon Boots by Jobii?
can't waite to see a tasting of israeli wine
Danke für die tollen Videos !
Gerne!
What do you think about viña ardanza ?
Great producer!
Remapu Gran reserva carmenere 2015
Interesting what you can say about this wine:)
Try the Nevio montepulciano.
Do you think you can still learn and improve from doing tastings with cheap wine?
Sure!
I agree that it's a shame there's so much of an increase in price of wines sold in the U.S.
Then again, there's an outrageous markup on American wines here in Europe. For example, the Finnish monopoly Alko (second biggest buyer in all of Europe) sells Stag's Leap Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 for 85€ or $98, while you can get the same wine for around $55 in California
I agree but think of what Euro’s have to pay for American bourbon
I love your prices, can you get me that bottle of Hermitage in the US?
Only Konstantin is allowed to use the words elegant & complex in the same description 😆
Gigino Anniversario 80, 2015 Vintage
Casal Garcia (a very cheap industrial Vinho Verde) is rated at 3.8 so... take Vivino scores with a grain of salt, would you?
Spain makes really good wines. Hope they get more recognition worldwide.
Portugal, Georgia and Bulgaria make very affordable top quality wines.
I hope not. Then we'll get a price increase
Highest rate I have In my cellar 4.4. Maybe something for the South African video........ Lourensford Chrysalis Red
(Zuid-AfrikCabernet sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet franc2016)
Ha Ha Ha ! Dido wine costs over $60 in Japan!!!!!
This is the reason, every time I look up the prices of wines in countries originated from and compared to the price tag in Japan......
I feel getting ripped off by those distributers....
I hope i can personally order the bottles of my fave freely....someday...
Peace and Love from Japan.
Sorry to hear that ...
In Brazil we have to pay 50 euros for the Penfolds and yet we are way poorer :(
I belong to Naked Wines. Are you familiar? If so, I'd love to see you discuss some of their wines, if that's even possible.
I‘m really looking forward to your South African wine tasting! WTF is vivino??
Konstantin Baum is the Jesse Pinkman of Wine(sorry I just seemed to notice a big resemblence in your and Aaron Paul's appearances) :)
Du produzierst hochwertige Videos zu Wein Themas!
WINE SCIENCE ... BITCH! 😂
Ugh. I can’t buy any of these where I live. 🤦♂️
Where are you based?
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Toronto. We are limited by
A government buying monopoly.
Please KONSTANTIN try some wines from Slovenia, BRDA region! Write me and I’ll give to the explanation and wines that would be interesting for you.
Please include a Mexican wine in your next videos
Yeeeeeeeeeesssss
I don’t get why, if the Dido and Polkura got the same score, one is crowned as the absolute king and the other isn’t. Yes, I’m a Polkura fan, deal with it 😜
92 points :O