You did well in this blind tasting. You got two right and had good reasons for your other guesses that turned out wrong. I love the occasional blind tasting as it keeps me humble.
Very impressed with your ability to distinguish between these. Here in the USA I was not surprised the Oregon wine surprised you. Sadly for us, although we love a nice Pommard, they are quite a bit more expensive than what we find for $50 from the Pacific northwest at the same high quality. One we like is: Dundee Hills Estate Pinot Noir Oregon, Willamette Valley- "Hand-crafted by fourth generation winemaker, Veronique Drouhin-Boss, the distinctive Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of Domaine Drouhin are prized for their elegance, balance and finesse, as well as their ability to age. Robert Parker 96 Points -The 2019 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills is defined, expressive and layered, with pure lavender, peppercorn and wild berry aromas and a velvety texture with bursts of freshness that highlight floral perfume and an array of spicy accents on the extended finish."
Well done Agnes, that was a lot of fun. Excellent tasting notes too. I do like a Pinot. I'm going to mention a country (guess which one) that has been imported a lot of varieties and all I'll say is watch this space. I am of course referring to Spain. I recently ordered a Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Somontano and it's been planted in Andalusia too. They're bottling 100% Petit Verdot as well and I recently had a bottle of that made by a fiercely committed biodynamic producer based in Cordoba. Spain is made for that kind of production. I've met a number of growers that assure me that the land and climate is tailor made for typically French varieties. They have to back that up with generations of French winemaking knowledge of course but they are confident. I've said it many times that Spanish wine has been transformed in the last twenty years to the most interesting and dynamic wine region on the planet. Not only have they rediscovered their own natural varieties and brought them back to the world, they've also turned Tempranillo into one of the world's great varieties with countless excellent wines from Rioja, Ribera and other regions. Spain was also at the forefront of transforming wine labels and bringing them into the modern world. The next stage is biodynamic wine, which I'm sure they will be a force, along with the development of the French varietals they are working with. As I said, watch this space.
We will! I agree, Spain has so much to offer, and the indigenous grape varieties are so varied - it is really interesting topic to explore. I also enjoy a lot wines from the coastal areas of Spain - they have nice saline depth to them! Cheers! 🥂
Enjoyed your episode and was guessing alongside. I guessed Oregon and Otago -- I have had many Oregon Pinots with the lively acidity you described and especially so with Resonance. The peppermint notes you picked up from the last hinted at Central Otago for me, it's one of those I haven't picked up from Oregon Pinots. The dusty tannnins sounded about right for a Burg, and I learned a new thing about German Pinots from your video! Thank you!
lets be honest here, only reason people think they can identify Pinots even from single vineyards is because, if you want to become a sommelier or any other wine related professional, academia will make sure you know every single square meter in Burgundy by heart and exactly what type of stone is rolling on top of it. in other word, it is already decided on what people get educated on. edit: loved the video! sometime we learn more with wines that are not guessed right!
I was thinking Resonance when you gave your impressions of the first wine. I tasted at resonance this spring and was surprised at how tannic and bright the wines were, even after a decade. They weren’t very generous. I couldn’t see a path to real pleasure for them. But just my 2 cents. I think you did a great job! You are one of the best real time, blind tasters to listen to on YT.
Great tasting and video Agnes. You shouldn't give yourself a hard time that you mixed up the Oregon and Central Otago wines, I think Pinot Noir is quite tricky and defies being put into tidy boxes. As you have to account for terroir, clone types, picking dates/methods, fermentation approach, aging and the list goes on. It was nice to see a wide selection of PNs and it showcases the diversity of styles and tastes and also that Europe mimics the Southern Hemisphere and the U.S. and vice versa. These type of videos are great indicator of quality wine making, as I'm pretty sure that all 4 of these wineries have great Pinots at the entry and mid-level price points. Cheers!
Wonderful presentation. When Pinot Noir arrived here (in AUSTRALIA) it seemed every wine maker was doing completely different things with this new grape - including a sparkling varient. Yeah, there were some, hmm hmm, really interesting wines! Eventually they realised how the grape needed to be handled and things improved from there. Pinot Noir is a variety I took to very slowly - it took the first decently produced wine I encountered - which happened to be from Babich, New Zealand. I encountered numerous Pinot's while travelling through Hungary - who'd have thought 8 to 10 Euros would fetch you a great wine. These days my Pinot Noir benchmark is produced by Pooley, Tasmania.
I think You are correct, as I mentioned in the video - it is a finicky grape and the best results show those who know and have experience working with it! 🍷
I keep being admonished, “you should love Pinot noir, the sophisticate of wine.” They can be good, but give me a nice Syrah or Bordeaux varietal or blend (French or not) anytime. Very impressed by your knowledge and palette, I have tried and failed often at discriminating wines by taste.
Please do not listen to wine snobs, if You are willing to experiment and find something You like - perfect. If, however, You already know the style that brings You pleasure and enjoyment, why would You trade that? 😉 Wine world is so vast - it would be very boring if we all liked the same wine! 🍷
Salwey is one of my all time favourite producers! Fortunately, I have quite a few bottles from them in my cellar starting from 2007, I believe, and they do age nicely.
@3:46, before seeing the actual tasting. I'm guessing Baden is going to blow your socks off. It's my favourite wine region right now 😍 @13:08. Nooo my Fav didn't win it :( Really fun video Agnes! Good job :)
Sorry for that, we all have preferences of our own, and please don’t make my judgement of wine ruin in any way what You like and enjoy the best. 🍷 It was a great wine, I really liked it, it is just that I liked Oregon and Pommard more! 🙈😂
Thank you for the honest vid. It was very informative and enjoyable. Good to watch some really great wine enthusiast blind tasting wines every now and then without ending up with 100% correct answers every single time ;)
Hahaha, in my case - I select the wines, so it is not completely blind. Semi-blind, I would say. A completely blind tasting could go really wrong. 😑 I am guessing not everyone would feel comfortable sharing that on video! 🥲
Really well-conceived and well executed BT video! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m buying/drinking more and more OR pinot noirs, mainly because they have some Burgundian characteristics but are more affordable. The range of producers and results there are broad, for sure. Learned a lot from this tasting, though!
Thank You. I wish I could get more OR Pinot Noir, it is still relatively difficult to come by here. And usually larger brands are represented, or those that have links in Europe, like Resonanse. 🥲
@@NoSediment Yes wine is a local product. I'm in Northern California, so much great wine within a day's drive of me...I'm increasingly focusing on the more local wines, and buying fewer imports. Fortunately you have some of the best wine regions in the world close at hand, too! Cheers
Hello Agnes: Many thanks for your time and effort to educate and entertain… another beautiful, informative video. And (for me) TIMELY ! Just concluded my own “experiment” of Pinot’s… that was a bit more extensive (because I had more time). Like you, I found significant differences… and a few surprises. For example: o The most interesting Burgundy was a Volnay (Marquis d’Angerville)… not a Chambolle. o Australia (Tolpuddle) topped New Zealand o And, here in the US: Santa Barbara (Brewer Clifton) topped both Oregon and Napa
Marquis d’Angerville is a stunning producer, I have no doubt their wine stood out. It has been a long time since I tasted anything from them. 🥲 sounds like You had a beautiful tasting! I hope You enjoyed every bottle of it! 🍷
I think you did pretty well. Maybe next time smell through all the wines 1st before tasting them to remove any biases from the palate… especially for wines that are terroir driven.
On one of my first Pinots, I noted: "perhaps atypical". But since then I've started to think that it's typical Pinot to be atypical, which fits with your intro. For fun, I'd like to share a line from the Falstaff review of the 2020 Salwey: _"A very potent wine in its embryonic stage"._ How dare you drink it when it's in its embryonic state Agnese? 😅 And finally: Check out the pronunciation of "epitome". You might get another surprise 😊 We enjoyed this video.
O M G, another fail from my side - it is pronounced completely differently. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ And yes, descriptions like these are fun to read, yet, I am still on the side that supports that great wine can be drunk when young as well! 🍷
You are great! I would like to see another with less expensive wines. My budget doesn’t afford me to drink 65-90 dollar wines... I understand Pinot needs to be in a higher price range but perhaps 30/35-50. Tops...
It is a very good point and I will definitely keep that in mind. In this specific video the emphasis was on terroir therefore the premium price category. But You are absolutely correct that is very expensive. 🙏🏻
What I would like to know Agnese, is if these Pinot Noir’s pair well with your Gingerbread cookies. That would be my measure of greatness. Cookie greatness!)
The tricky thing with pinot noir for me (but I'm light years behind Agnese's skills) is that even country-wise (or style-wise if you like) it's really tough to pinpoint since it shows so much variance from every single factor affecting it, from the vine all the way to the glass. As I'm training for Diploma, I'm starting to mark huge red flags with some aspects of wine: acidity is a big one. It can vary so easily within the same variety that only very broad statements can be said about it, and then when confronting a concrete wine those generalities are of little use.
Sometimes that is true, and for every rule there will be hundreds of exceptions. Therefore when You study wine and deeply pay attention to things, at some point You can get frustrated, because (as You say Yourself) those generalisations doesn’t work! 😂😂😂
@@NoSediment I've found that, also, sometimes we pay "too much attention to detail". Let me explain: you write down a dozen of aromas, but then it's sometimes more useful to look more broadly and ask: What is the dominant cluster of aromas? What's in the back? Yesterday I got a Viognier blind (easiest thing in the world though) and the key to me was to realise, "What kind of grape is more floral than fruity with no spice?"
Well if you got it right every time I'd begin to wonder if it genuinely was blind! Great video, thank you! With the prices of Burgundy reaching absurd levels I need to look for other areas to source good pinot noir and this video is part of my research for doing so.
Hahaha, sorry for that. It was not my first mistake on camera though. I did bad in the blind tasting of several vintages of Barolo wines (this is why I haven’t done this tasting again). Maybe just lately I was being extra lucky.
Merci Agnese, i think wine number 3 was a good wine.... (it was half way empty...) for me it was always difficult to rate a pinot noir, because for my home made Salmon a pinot noir is a good choice, and aswell for the home made Duck... Like you explained, with the good care, you can transform this fragile grape in a divine wine. What do you think, is it knowledge and care, or region which makes this wine a amazing experience....?
I think it is both - without good and healthy terroir (place) grapes couldn’t reach the quality potential. And without wise winemaker - wine would easily end up into a vinegar. You need both for a great wine. 🍷
Great video. Interesting that the NZ wasn’t under screw cap. All the Cloudy Bay I’ve seen here is. PN is in my top 5 favorite black grapes for me. Cheers.
I would guess that it was the price point due to which it was decided to bottle it under a natural cork. Sometimes even the most dedicated screw cup fans (winemakers) will bottle their premium wines under natural cork, as it is made for a completely different consumer type.
I think they were all very similar, 13.0-13.5% I don’t remember, and it definitely didn’t play a role for me. When there are no spikes (very high or unusually low) it doesn’t give You much information. 😞
Hi Agnes. Once again a very good presentation. In regards to Bourgogne. I have tried Volnay that tasted blind I would have guessed that it was from Pommard and vise versa. Usually Pommard wines are affected by the iron in the Pommard soil. When they drew the village lines between Pommard and Volnay they must not have looked into the composition of the terroir? 🍷😀
This premier cru site - Clos Blanc actually has slightly different soil composition from rest of the Pommard, and has more limestone in it, apparently. And it used to be more planted with grapes - hence the name. So I guess it might be one of few reasons it was so different from other Pommard wines. 🤓
I think I already commented under this video already, that specific premier cru (clos blanc) has a very unique terroir and quite different from rest of the Pommard. But I loved it a lot. Ot was great wine! 🍷
Dear Agnes Hi Don't be too hard on yourself All blind tastes are As you know Very difficult I know you're on your journey to master sommelier But Anyway You've been working a lot And doing a great job So Be more humble and kind to yourself You deserve it Cheers 🥂
Thank You’ 🙏🏻 Wow, that is very specific. But I have been looking for options to travel to southern Italy, hopefully this coming year so we can finally make a video on these less discovered grape varieties. 🍷🍷🍷
Santa Barbara, Russian River Valley, Marlborough and also Australia and Chile seem to be making progress with their Pinots. I probably left out somewhere that belongs in this game...
🥲🥲🥲 it was not the first one, actually. I missed the vintages for the Barolo vertical tasting. Still to this day the most difficult tasting I have done on video! 🍷
How can anyone learn Burgundy at a master of wine level? There are well over 100 Grand Cru and Premier Cru in Cotes de Nuits, and each year is different too. Even if you can keep that straight in your head, you'd need to be a millionaire to afford it, and that's not even all of Burgundy.
Fortunately to us, there is a lot of theory involved, unfortunately to us, it is best to support that theory with a practical part. Yes, Burgundy is one of those regions which, if You wanted to explore You must have very deep pockets and great friends. 😎
I agree, there are definitely better examples. However, their focus is on Sauvignon Blanc, and definitely they are not amongst the lower quality producers, I would say the opposite. Large producer - yes, but that doesn’t mean it is a bad wine. 🍷
You did well in this blind tasting. You got two right and had good reasons for your other guesses that turned out wrong. I love the occasional blind tasting as it keeps me humble.
Yes, blind tastings always keeps You humble, true! 😅
Very impressed with your ability to distinguish between these. Here in the USA I was not surprised the Oregon wine surprised you. Sadly for us, although we love a nice Pommard, they are quite a bit more expensive than what we find for $50 from the Pacific northwest at the same high quality. One we like is: Dundee Hills Estate Pinot Noir Oregon, Willamette Valley- "Hand-crafted by fourth generation winemaker, Veronique Drouhin-Boss, the distinctive Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of Domaine Drouhin are prized for their elegance, balance and finesse, as well as their ability to age. Robert Parker 96 Points -The 2019 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills is defined, expressive and layered, with pure lavender, peppercorn and wild berry aromas and a velvety texture with bursts of freshness that highlight floral perfume and an array of spicy accents on the extended finish."
Well done Agnes, that was a lot of fun. Excellent tasting notes too. I do like a Pinot. I'm going to mention a country (guess which one) that has been imported a lot of varieties and all I'll say is watch this space. I am of course referring to Spain. I recently ordered a Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Somontano and it's been planted in Andalusia too. They're bottling 100% Petit Verdot as well and I recently had a bottle of that made by a fiercely committed biodynamic producer based in Cordoba. Spain is made for that kind of production. I've met a number of growers that assure me that the land and climate is tailor made for typically French varieties. They have to back that up with generations of French winemaking knowledge of course but they are confident.
I've said it many times that Spanish wine has been transformed in the last twenty years to the most interesting and dynamic wine region on the planet. Not only have they rediscovered their own natural varieties and brought them back to the world, they've also turned Tempranillo into one of the world's great varieties with countless excellent wines from Rioja, Ribera and other regions. Spain was also at the forefront of transforming wine labels and bringing them into the modern world. The next stage is biodynamic wine, which I'm sure they will be a force, along with the development of the French varietals they are working with. As I said, watch this space.
We will! I agree, Spain has so much to offer, and the indigenous grape varieties are so varied - it is really interesting topic to explore. I also enjoy a lot wines from the coastal areas of Spain - they have nice saline depth to them! Cheers! 🥂
Salwey!!!! Amazing producers!
I had their GG Hekenberg, we were all loving it, such a beautiful wine!!❤
Enjoyed your episode and was guessing alongside. I guessed Oregon and Otago -- I have had many Oregon Pinots with the lively acidity you described and especially so with Resonance. The peppermint notes you picked up from the last hinted at Central Otago for me, it's one of those I haven't picked up from Oregon Pinots. The dusty tannnins sounded about right for a Burg, and I learned a new thing about German Pinots from your video! Thank you!
Wow, that so interesting, I wonder if we can make a fun video idea out of this! But it sounds like You know really well Your Pinot Noir! 🍷 Cheers!
@@NoSedimentnot really, still have a lot to learn, just that after a while you notice patterns. And always fun to be surprised of exceptions!
lets be honest here, only reason people think they can identify Pinots even from single vineyards is because, if you want to become a sommelier or any other wine related professional, academia will make sure you know every single square meter in Burgundy by heart and exactly what type of stone is rolling on top of it. in other word, it is already decided on what people get educated on. edit: loved the video! sometime we learn more with wines that are not guessed right!
Completely agree, often times it is the mistakes that we make that teach us the most! 🍷
I was thinking Resonance when you gave your impressions of the first wine. I tasted at resonance this spring and was surprised at how tannic and bright the wines were, even after a decade. They weren’t very generous. I couldn’t see a path to real pleasure for them. But just my 2 cents. I think you did a great job! You are one of the best real time, blind tasters to listen to on YT.
Such great expressions and gestures. Vivid and skilled. Great!
So very sweet of You, thank You. 🙏🏻
Great tasting and video Agnes. You shouldn't give yourself a hard time that you mixed up the Oregon and Central Otago wines, I think Pinot Noir is quite tricky and defies being put into tidy boxes. As you have to account for terroir, clone types, picking dates/methods, fermentation approach, aging and the list goes on. It was nice to see a wide selection of PNs and it showcases the diversity of styles and tastes and also that Europe mimics the Southern Hemisphere and the U.S. and vice versa. These type of videos are great indicator of quality wine making, as I'm pretty sure that all 4 of these wineries have great Pinots at the entry and mid-level price points. Cheers!
Wonderful presentation. When Pinot Noir arrived here (in AUSTRALIA) it seemed every wine maker was doing completely different things with this new grape - including a sparkling varient. Yeah, there were some, hmm hmm, really interesting wines! Eventually they realised how the grape needed to be handled and things improved from there. Pinot Noir is a variety I took to very slowly - it took the first decently produced wine I encountered - which happened to be from Babich, New Zealand. I encountered numerous Pinot's while travelling through Hungary - who'd have thought 8 to 10 Euros would fetch you a great wine. These days my Pinot Noir benchmark is produced by Pooley, Tasmania.
I think You are correct, as I mentioned in the video - it is a finicky grape and the best results show those who know and have experience working with it! 🍷
Huge fan of Salways attempt. Their pittoresk tasting room also helps..
I have never visited them, sounds like I should! 🍷 Cheers!
I keep being admonished, “you should love Pinot noir, the sophisticate of wine.” They can be good, but give me a nice Syrah or Bordeaux varietal or blend (French or not) anytime. Very impressed by your knowledge and palette, I have tried and failed often at discriminating wines by taste.
Please do not listen to wine snobs, if You are willing to experiment and find something You like - perfect. If, however, You already know the style that brings You pleasure and enjoyment, why would You trade that? 😉 Wine world is so vast - it would be very boring if we all liked the same wine! 🍷
Salwey is one of my all time favourite producers! Fortunately, I have quite a few bottles from them in my cellar starting from 2007, I believe, and they do age nicely.
Nice to know I choose one of the best producers to represent German Pinot Noir. It seems to me that many love their wines! 🍷🍷🍷 Cheers!
@3:46, before seeing the actual tasting. I'm guessing Baden is going to blow your socks off. It's my favourite wine region right now 😍
@13:08. Nooo my Fav didn't win it :(
Really fun video Agnes! Good job :)
Sorry for that, we all have preferences of our own, and please don’t make my judgement of wine ruin in any way what You like and enjoy the best. 🍷 It was a great wine, I really liked it, it is just that I liked Oregon and Pommard more! 🙈😂
You nailed the old world and new world, just inverted the new world, still well done!
Thank You! This tasting was difficult for me. 😞
Very nice tasting, looking forward to the all Burgundy episode.
Thank You! Very sweet’ 🍷
Thank you for the honest vid. It was very informative and enjoyable.
Good to watch some really great wine enthusiast blind tasting wines every now and then without ending up with 100% correct answers every single time ;)
Hahaha, in my case - I select the wines, so it is not completely blind. Semi-blind, I would say. A completely blind tasting could go really wrong. 😑 I am guessing not everyone would feel comfortable sharing that on video! 🥲
Really well-conceived and well executed BT video! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m buying/drinking more and more OR pinot noirs, mainly because they have some Burgundian characteristics but are more affordable. The range of producers and results there are broad, for sure. Learned a lot from this tasting, though!
Thank You. I wish I could get more OR Pinot Noir, it is still relatively difficult to come by here. And usually larger brands are represented, or those that have links in Europe, like Resonanse. 🥲
@@NoSediment Yes wine is a local product. I'm in Northern California, so much great wine within a day's drive of me...I'm increasingly focusing on the more local wines, and buying fewer imports. Fortunately you have some of the best wine regions in the world close at hand, too! Cheers
Hello Agnes:
Many thanks for your time and effort to educate and entertain… another beautiful, informative video.
And (for me) TIMELY !
Just concluded my own “experiment” of Pinot’s… that was a bit more extensive (because I had more time). Like you, I found significant differences… and a few surprises. For example:
o The most interesting Burgundy was a Volnay (Marquis d’Angerville)… not a Chambolle.
o Australia (Tolpuddle) topped New Zealand
o And, here in the US: Santa Barbara (Brewer Clifton) topped both Oregon and Napa
Marquis d’Angerville is a stunning producer, I have no doubt their wine stood out. It has been a long time since I tasted anything from them. 🥲 sounds like You had a beautiful tasting! I hope You enjoyed every bottle of it! 🍷
I think you did pretty well. Maybe next time smell through all the wines 1st before tasting them to remove any biases from the palate… especially for wines that are terroir driven.
Had a true awakening experience with a Pinot from Franconia. 2018 Centgrafenberg from Fürst. Exceptional.
On one of my first Pinots, I noted: "perhaps atypical". But since then I've started to think that it's typical Pinot to be atypical, which fits with your intro.
For fun, I'd like to share a line from the Falstaff review of the 2020 Salwey: _"A very potent wine in its embryonic stage"._ How dare you drink it when it's in its embryonic state Agnese? 😅
And finally: Check out the pronunciation of "epitome". You might get another surprise 😊
We enjoyed this video.
O M G, another fail from my side - it is pronounced completely differently. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ And yes, descriptions like these are fun to read, yet, I am still on the side that supports that great wine can be drunk when young as well! 🍷
You are great! I would like to see another with less expensive wines. My budget doesn’t afford me to drink 65-90 dollar wines... I understand Pinot needs to be in a higher price range but perhaps 30/35-50. Tops...
It is a very good point and I will definitely keep that in mind. In this specific video the emphasis was on terroir therefore the premium price category. But You are absolutely correct that is very expensive. 🙏🏻
Oregon always gives me a big Cola note in tastings
What I would like to know Agnese, is if these Pinot Noir’s pair well with your Gingerbread cookies. That would be my measure of greatness. Cookie greatness!)
PS. I am jealous because I can only open one bottle at a time!)
Hahahah, that time of the year is getting closer so we might get to know. 😉
smile@@NoSediment
The tricky thing with pinot noir for me (but I'm light years behind Agnese's skills) is that even country-wise (or style-wise if you like) it's really tough to pinpoint since it shows so much variance from every single factor affecting it, from the vine all the way to the glass.
As I'm training for Diploma, I'm starting to mark huge red flags with some aspects of wine: acidity is a big one. It can vary so easily within the same variety that only very broad statements can be said about it, and then when confronting a concrete wine those generalities are of little use.
Sometimes that is true, and for every rule there will be hundreds of exceptions. Therefore when You study wine and deeply pay attention to things, at some point You can get frustrated, because (as You say Yourself) those generalisations doesn’t work! 😂😂😂
@@NoSediment I've found that, also, sometimes we pay "too much attention to detail". Let me explain: you write down a dozen of aromas, but then it's sometimes more useful to look more broadly and ask: What is the dominant cluster of aromas? What's in the back? Yesterday I got a Viognier blind (easiest thing in the world though) and the key to me was to realise, "What kind of grape is more floral than fruity with no spice?"
Well if you got it right every time I'd begin to wonder if it genuinely was blind! Great video, thank you! With the prices of Burgundy reaching absurd levels I need to look for other areas to source good pinot noir and this video is part of my research for doing so.
Hahaha, sorry for that. It was not my first mistake on camera though. I did bad in the blind tasting of several vintages of Barolo wines (this is why I haven’t done this tasting again). Maybe just lately I was being extra lucky.
Merci Agnese, i think wine number 3 was a good wine.... (it was half way empty...) for me it was always difficult to rate a pinot noir, because for my home made Salmon a pinot noir is a good choice, and aswell for the home made Duck... Like you explained, with the good care, you can transform this fragile grape in a divine wine. What do you think, is it knowledge and care, or region which makes this wine a amazing experience....?
I think it is both - without good and healthy terroir (place) grapes couldn’t reach the quality potential. And without wise winemaker - wine would easily end up into a vinegar. You need both for a great wine. 🍷
Great video. Interesting that the NZ wasn’t under screw cap. All the Cloudy Bay I’ve seen here is. PN is in my top 5 favorite black grapes for me. Cheers.
I would guess that it was the price point due to which it was decided to bottle it under a natural cork. Sometimes even the most dedicated screw cup fans (winemakers) will bottle their premium wines under natural cork, as it is made for a completely different consumer type.
Interesting tasting. Could you comment on the alcohol levels of these wines, and was this a factor that played a role in your blind tasting calls?
I think they were all very similar, 13.0-13.5% I don’t remember, and it definitely didn’t play a role for me. When there are no spikes (very high or unusually low) it doesn’t give You much information. 😞
Hi Agnes. Once again a very good presentation. In regards to Bourgogne. I have tried Volnay that tasted blind I would have guessed that it was from Pommard and vise versa. Usually Pommard wines are affected by the iron in the Pommard soil. When they drew the village lines between Pommard and Volnay they must not have looked into the composition of the terroir? 🍷😀
This premier cru site - Clos Blanc actually has slightly different soil composition from rest of the Pommard, and has more limestone in it, apparently. And it used to be more planted with grapes - hence the name. So I guess it might be one of few reasons it was so different from other Pommard wines. 🤓
Best Pinot Noir Video Ever Agnese ❤🎉 🍷🍷🍷🍷 You're so sweet and entertaining!
Hah! I just had the pommard last week. You are absolutely right, swirl and sniff kind of wine. Its good!
I loved this one, it was so smooth and beautiful. 🍷
pommard has a big stylistic change, very floral, sometimes more so than volnay, eg heitz-lochardet, jean michel gaunoux ...
I think I already commented under this video already, that specific premier cru (clos blanc) has a very unique terroir and quite different from rest of the Pommard. But I loved it a lot. Ot was great wine! 🍷
Dear Agnes
Hi
Don't be too hard on yourself
All blind tastes are
As you know
Very difficult
I know you're on your journey to master sommelier
But
Anyway
You've been working a lot
And doing a great job
So
Be more humble and kind to yourself
You deserve it
Cheers 🥂
Thank You very much, such a lovely and supportive comment ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am taken by your presentation filled with passion and exuberance, and wondering if you could do a segment on sagrantino.
Thank You’ 🙏🏻 Wow, that is very specific. But I have been looking for options to travel to southern Italy, hopefully this coming year so we can finally make a video on these less discovered grape varieties. 🍷🍷🍷
Crazy that out of 4 Pinot none were cheaper than the Burgundy one. It's really hard to find bargains these days I guess
Yes, at least for the Pinot Noir. I was surprised for some of the prices as well. 😅
You could've included one from Santa Barbara, for contrast
Santa Barbara, Russian River Valley, Marlborough and also Australia and Chile seem to be making progress with their Pinots. I probably left out somewhere that belongs in this game...
Good job!
Thank You’ 🙏🏻
oMG i have to Mark this date on my calendar.... Agnes gas failed her First blind wine reveal 😮😅😂
🥲🥲🥲 it was not the first one, actually. I missed the vintages for the Barolo vertical tasting. Still to this day the most difficult tasting I have done on video! 🍷
Oh you did well Agnese! Pinot Noir is the greatest red wine grape, have to say! Btw what happened to you eye?
What is with my eye? If You mean the scar - I got hit with the swing when playing with other kids. 🙈
@@NoSediment Ouch! Didn’t notice before, thought it was a recent thing, and maybe unnecessary to mention regardless:)
How can anyone learn Burgundy at a master of wine level? There are well over 100 Grand Cru and Premier Cru in Cotes de Nuits, and each year is different too. Even if you can keep that straight in your head, you'd need to be a millionaire to afford it, and that's not even all of Burgundy.
Fortunately to us, there is a lot of theory involved, unfortunately to us, it is best to support that theory with a practical part. Yes, Burgundy is one of those regions which, if You wanted to explore You must have very deep pockets and great friends. 😎
Wauw great !
So she knew what she was drinking in the first place? I dont get it. Jadot makes ressonance. She should mention that.
She knew! 😉
Nebbiolo Bitter!
I hope You meant “better” 😂😂😂
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Cloudy bay is not the best - mass produced giant producer…some much better PN around Otago
I agree, there are definitely better examples. However, their focus is on Sauvignon Blanc, and definitely they are not amongst the lower quality producers, I would say the opposite. Large producer - yes, but that doesn’t mean it is a bad wine. 🍷
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Cheers! 🍷