Master of Wine Tastes FREAK Wines - The Wine Tasting
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In this video I am going to taste some freak wines. Some of them are very cheap wines, from weird regions and are bottled in strange bottle shapes. Some are just interesting wines. 
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the expression on your face after smelling "the great wall" priceless!
:)
Try some Georgian wines next, would be interesting to know your thoughts on "New Oldest World". Try some red dry (Saperavi) and some Qvevri (amber wines). Will look forward to see Georgian wines on your channel some day.
P.S
Georgia definitely doesn't belong to Freak wines, so you will be hopefully surprised and intrigued.
Great suggestion!
Yes!
The origin of wine is something that changes every now and then. But I think the latest findings put it somewhere in Georgia.
I'm going to take both of your suggestions and score me some Georgian wines. Thanks!
I was literally thinking about it as I watched the video!
Believe it or not, I've made wine from a blend of Saperavi & Amurensis, grown by Apponagansett Bay Vineyards in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The fruit grew during an early frost year (?1997?) and wasn't really fully ripe, but with oak chips and malolactic fermentation it was richer than I expected, reminding me of Zinfandel. I didn't try aging it, I just drank it happily over the next 18 months or so. Cheers!
(I think Konstantin Frank Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes grows a little Saperavi as well. I've never tried it.)
Hilarious! Thanks for “taking one for the team”.
Any time! :)
I gasped when I heard you say Chateau Musar! I happened to have a glass of it when I was at the BTG Wine bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. I’m a huge fan of the blend and I make it a point to get it every time I’m in SLC. How exciting to see you review it!
I go to slc from the UK a lot for work. Thanks for commenting will check this place out next time I go 👍
I was finished when I saw the second "Great Wall" label xD "A name you can trust." Brilliant haha. I'm glad you're alson taking your time to taste freak wines, I think that shows some humility and besides, seeing your reactions is so funny :)
Thanks!
The Chateau Musar seems very out of place in this line-up - an iconic wine which has been very famous among wine lovers internationally for decades. I have been a huge fan for well over 20 years and have not met a single wine buff who did not know it. Also, it is very widely available across the world, I have spent the past 25 years living in London and Tokyo, and it is very easily available in many decent wine shops here. In London, there is good availability of back vintages dating back 30+ years.
Yes, it is a very good wine but few people know that Lebanon is producing great wines - plus: I had to taste good wine as well after all of the mediocre wines.
Turkish wines are very very good! The one you chose for this video is very good (but not super great like you said). Thank you for including a Turkish wine in your video. I highly recommend exploring more Turkish wines, especially the ones from the Urla and Thrace regions
Nice! We cannot get the Great Wall wines here, so that’s a good thing😉. I had a vertical of a 97, 01 and 2017 Musar a couple of weeks ago. I was quite surprised at the significant differences in the 97 and 01. I think it wasn’t bottle variation as all 3 bottles cane from the same individual and had been cellared the same. And it was so great to see how the fruits had changed from the 17.
Oh wow! Would have loved to taste those vintages side by side.
Your facial expressions are hilarious 😆
I’ve had the Chateau Musar on a number of occasions in both the UK and strangely enough in the USA, it is very bold, full fruit wine and when paired with something like wild boar it’s actually not bad.
I visited Budapest just before the pandemic started, I found a number of their wines reminded me on the Chateau Masur🤔
Mate, I enjoy watching your tasting! Seeing your face brings back sooo many wine tastings for me. I did 100 tastings of Indian red, white, rose and sparkling wines in Mumbai in 2012. I had your facial expressions a few times. 😦🤭😀
"Who's drinking this?! WHY would you be drinking this?!?" I genuinely felt pain for you. LOL
Hard work ...
I would love if you could try different Quebec wines ! It's kind of in the freaky side of wine, even if our whites are getting better.
good stuff as usual, thank you
Very great video, Thank you!
Thank you!
Just caught up on this video. There are some not great wines out there. In English supermarkets and shop we currently have some real ‘freaks’ such as red and white JamShed (Definitely Jam made in a shed) and then 19 Crimes (well named) which come from Australia before we get to Barefoot (tastes of that) and Gallo basic red (ugh - introduced to that on our WSET level 3 course by our evil teachers). Fancy doing a tasting of these wines? Maybe I have put you off. Love your videos - keep up the good work.
Fab video, thank you. I have a 2004 Chateau Musar I was given as a gift in 2012. I hope it still tastes good. You have inspired me to get it out to drink.
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for this, I’m very pleased that you keep an open mind to experiencing non-traditional wine regions. I agree with the other commentators that would like to hear your opinions on Georgian wine. Selfishly, I’d also like to hear your opinion on a couple German & Austrian wine producers that I more and more see consistently available in wine shops and restaurants in the US, for example, Gut Oggau, Enderle & Moll, Meinklang, Julian Hart, Brand, or Weingut Furst. Regardless, I’ll keep watching.
Thank you. I will try to include some of those topics/wines.
yo yo! nice video! can you do one for Amber/Orange/Qvevri wines please :)
Good idea! I'm really interested in Orange wine too.
@@EricZeak let me know if you need any tips, recommendations or info. I am in Georgia...
Amazing made my week !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Chateau Musar is iconic with exceptional aging potential. A few other lesser known producers in Lebanon I suggest you try if you’re interested are Atibaia and Domaine de Tourelles. Atibaia’s red is a beautiful blend of Cabernet, Syrah, and Petit Verdot with great concentration and length. Domaine des Tourelles produces a lovely Syrah, Syrah du Liban, that’s rich, round with dark fruits on the palate. In Turkey, the same producer of the wine you tried, Doluca, makes a higher end wine, alçıtepe, that’s fantastic as well. The producer, Selendi in Turkey has some excellent monovarietals as well as their “Selendi Blend” which are some of my favorite Turkish wines. Urla near Izmir makes some interesting wines as well such as the Urla Tempus. Just thought I’d share in case you’re interested in exploring the wines of these two countries more. I’ve visited wineries in both and feel they’re very under appreciated. Thanks for giving them some attention.
I had some great beautiful wines in Albania, would love to see you try some wines from the western Balkans.
Would love a review of Becker or William Chris or any highly recommended Texas Hill Country Wine.
I would strongly recommend Chateau Kalpak and Chamlija Sui Generis from Turkey.
Thanks for taking one for the team! Sorry you put yourself through that.
Keep the videos coming man!
Will do!
Very nice video and very useful as always
Thanks a lot
Domaine des Tourelles Lebanon!! It's exquisite wine!!✨️❤️🔥
I hadn't thought about Noah planting a vineyard. Such an interesting fact.
Great videos, next time can you try some high altitude wines? Maybe you can find some from Argentina, they are very different, for example I'm from Bolivia and we have some fruit forward tannats with 6 months aged, with vines grown between 1700 - 2300 meters over sea level, the altitude help soften the tanins but keeping or even increasing the complexity
Good idea!
Jo Konstantin,
Klasse Videos!! Suchte mich gerade durch Deine ganze Playlist. Kurz zum Kalecik karasi: Finde die Traube enorm interessant. Hast Du da mal andere probiert? Ich empfehle Dir, sofern mir das überhaupt zusteht, mal den von Gelveri. Absolut interessantes Zeug.
Danke! Gelveri's habe ich noch nicht probiert, aber ich finde die Sorte auch sehr spannend.
Château Musar ist doch seit bestimmt dreißig Jahren im Markt und ein durchaus bekannter Name mit entsprechendem Renommee und Preis. Auch in Deutschland recht gut zu bekommen und von Parker regelmäßig hoch bewertet. Mittlerweile gibt es für die kleine Größe des Libanons einige bemerkenswerte Güter, wie zum Beispiel der Aufsteiger Sept. Passt also nicht wirklich zum Rest.
Das stimmt
I am willingly watching your videos and I have learned quite a lot of you, many thanks for that. I just want to mention one thing in this video that original roots of ararat and wine making are not turkish, but they are armenian. Don't get me wrong, I'm just telling the history. By the way, you can drink a very good Armenian wine Zorah, which belonged to the top 10 world wines in 2014. Stay thirsty.
Nice video. I must admit I don't like the Musar as much as you did - I find it a bit too voloptuous and extravagant and too sweet in the category.
North Germany certainly sounds interesting...another interesting part of 'North Germany' could be tasting some Danish wine...often they're solaris as well but would be great to see how they fare in international competition 🤔
Yes, I would love to taste wines from Denmark.
Can across your channel recently. Would love to see a segment on the wines in the finger lakes in New York State!
Great idea! I have never been to the Finger Lakes so I do not know how authoritative I can talk about this.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Ah great it’s a great place! Known for their whites. Herman Wiemer Vineyard would be a good starting point :) 🥂
@@daneaucker247 excellent starting point, Bloomer Creek, Ravines, Red Newt, a many more to explore
Im waiting on a big georgian wine tasting!
Try finding some good Tsolikouri, Krakhuna, Otskhanuri Sapere, Shavkapito, Saperavi, Mtsvane, Rkatsiteli.
I like the video keep up the good work! 👍
Thanks, will do!
I would love to see you try some wines from Sweden, there are a lot of small producers and the quality is improving slowly but surely. Kullabergs vingård is one of the better ones I believe.
i enjoyed the, let's call it, self-flagelating part of the video, you should do a Liebfraumilch tasting, from boxes of course, no bottles allowed. I love Chateau Musar, especially their white ones.
You are cruel!
I watched the video just to see what Konstantin would say about Chateau Musar because a bottle of it is resting in my cellar. Although it is a completely mystery to me why such a wine is in this line-up, thanks for the tip that it needs to rest for a quite while.
Nice!
Thanks
Very interesting, one wonders what would be possible in Turkey if things were a little different!
Klaus
That's true!
What are the reasons for the difficulties in wine production in Turkey? I know it's a majority Muslim country, is there a backlash against alcoholic drinks in general? Or are there other reasons?
@@MsJavaWolf you hit it in a nutshell, the Muslim religion forbids the consumption of alcohol! That’s one reason I’m glad I’m a Christian!
I have a bottle of the white 2004 Chateau Musar in my cellar and a bottle each of the 2000 and 1998 reds. Looking forward to open them one day :)
Already knew when I saw the Chateau Musar that at least that was going to be good, never tried it (yet) but it has some recognition.
You should try it!
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine had the occasion once but I passed. What vintage do you suggest? Maybe a colder one?
Cooking with wine is a whole other category to think about? Or as that French Proverb goes, A fish must be drowned three time, one in the air and twice with wine Or half the bottle of wine for the pot and the other half for the Chef, while preparing the meal. I like using a wine to deglaze the pan the food was roasted or sauteed in and then add some other citrus fruit acid to finish off the sauce. Then there are the marinades with wine and herbs or spices, to which some fish or meat or vegetable is added. A few hours or days later the food is then cooked for the desired result.
Hey Konstantine Baum! I am curious to see what you think of Canadian wine from British Columbia and Ontario! Not many people have covered MY wine region (BC Okanagan) and I'd be curious to see what you think! Thank you for all the information! Cheers!
I should try more wines from there. They are not easy to get over here!
Hard wines to find here in the US. I've had some in Vancouver and they were fantastic.
So that Vinolija wine is from Romania, from a region named Galați. So they are at the edge where the hills of Moldova and the plains of southern Romania meet. I never knew that place had wineries.
Just out of curiosity: Do you think that you might have rated the Waalem Kul slightly better had it been later in the tasting (after the terrible wines)?
Because you rated it 78, almost the same as the Great Wall red's 75.
And while you recommend and seemed to have enjoyed the Waalem Kul (good, refreshing, complex) you described the Great Wall as quite unpleasant (not good, below average and very bitter).
I'm curious how tasting extremely different quality wines before or afterwards might impact one's perception (even for professionals).
Yes... maybe I expected it to be worse. But the Kul was really just an average wine.
I have a bottle of "Kröver Nacktarsch" and "Zeller Schwarz Katz" in my Kitchen just for the purpose of decoration and I never want to drink it because there might be some real trashy wine in it and I think one has to see the third wine you tried in the same category, too: A nice looking souvenir but nothing which is meant to enjoy.
When you tried that wine from Schleswig-Holstein a question came to my mind so I want to ask you: Did you ever drink a wine from the "Stargarder Land"-Region in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and if so: What do you think about it?
I always wanted to try one of the wines they have up there myself but it really seems to be difficult to get one without travelling there.
Besides that another wine I always wanted to try and did not have the chance yet was the Chateau Musar, so thank you for tasting it in this video!
(So, I am going outside now to plant my own little vinyard with 28 vines of Muscaris in my garden, so please cross your fingers for me and hope that everything will work the way it should :-))
I have not tried wines from Stargarder Land... I should do that though. Good luck with your vineyard!
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine After searching on google for a long time I found a merchant who sells wine form up there but I don't think that is will be interesting for you to try one of these because they grow the following vines: Regent, Phoenix, Solaris, Ortega, Müller-Thurgau und Elbling. Bought myself a bottle of Regent because and will give it a try also this is also not a really great variety but maybe besser then the others.
Thanks for taking one (or 2!) for the rest of us! 😅
Any time!
The Great Wall wine is like the Paul Mason jug wine in the US supermarkets, but worse. However, the Chinese wine market has seen new stars rising. Emma Gau's Silver Heights are knocking out great wines in the last few years. But, they are not cheap.
Trying more Chinese wine would be interesting like Ao Yun, Long dai, Helan Qingxue Jia Bei Lan or wines from Kanaan Winery & TianSai
Yes, that would be an interesting tasting!
Hope you can try some Chinese fine wines instead of Great Wall, which is just like you said, a quantity producer.
What a shame you put the Musar in the line up of ‘freak wines’. You do great work here and it is much appreciated.
If I could make a request here :
Tokaji! Dry, flor-matured Tokaji.
And Jura wines, especially Vin Jaune.
Very curious about V i n J a u n e .
You can't use them for cooking. First rule in culinary school, start with the BEST ingredients. I have poured whole bottles down the drain, just sayin. Love love love the videos!
Thanks
I don’t blame you for your comment on Great Wall. However, Great Wall is by no means representative of Chinese wines nowadays. Suggest you try a Jia Bei Lan Grand Reserve 2009 or Skyline of Gobi Cab Sauvignon - Marselan 2015. Hopefully they could make a difference in your perception of Chinese wines. If you could do a special episode on Chinese wines, it would be much appreciated.
That would be fun!
Are the grapes in the Chinese wines from the vinifera family?
They do not state which varieties are being used ...
Try some wines from unusual places in Canada, like Potter Settlement (Tweed Ontario), Sainte Famille (Nova Scotia), etc
"A Name You Can't Rust" - probably already completely oxidized. It would be interesting to have a tasting of the various modes of Zinfandel (Primitivo, etc) to see if there is any difference.
That's my favourite wine 😍
I would love to hear your thoughts on the old brass of winemaking, where much of the western tradition originates from. I mean the balkans and the Caucasian region.
Good topic!
Chateau Musar👏🏻🥂🇱🇧❤
😀
You should do an episode on wines from Mexico.
Wine production here in Denmark is also starting to grow slowly, but it's growing. Try to get a hold of some Danish wine.
That would be very interesting
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Most typically the solaris grape we produce here due to climate.
How does your rating system work? What is the scale?
It is the 100 Point scale. I talked about it in my video on scores.
I totaly agree with your opinion about GreatWall, a name you can trust for disappointment... I mean they do have some high-end products but I still cound't figure out why they are selling this shit everywhere, same problem with Changyu but at least they try to do some ads and launch new products outside China.
Try wine from Estland ;)
"I've never tasted it, because I never really felt like tasting it..." LOL
have you ever tried any Brazilian wine?
Only a hand full of wines...
I tried Great Wall wine in Beijing in 2007. Yes a 60! Sounds like no improvement in 14 years. 😬🤭
It's not always fun to sample wine??? Come on now.....You have the BEST job in the world....If I ever win the Lotto - I want to become a Sommelier...
Can't complain!
You got to taste some better Moldovan wines and it would be good to hear your opinion.
are all these wines from wine grapes silly question perhaps, it amazing there could be such quality differences, I guess not all grapes are good every year idk
ich kringle mich vor lachen, wenn dir das Gesicht so schlimm entgleist XD
Leider habe ich jetzt große Lust mir auch so was schreckliches zu leisten.
That jug must have a mighty powerful concoction in it.
Chateau Musar ♥️
Yes!
late to this one.. but dutch riesling!!!
Thank you for risking your life for our viewing pleasure haha
Yes - my palate almost did not make it ...
How would a wine score less than 50? How about less than 10? does the bottle have to be empty?
He wanted to say AIYAHHH!!!~~~ when he drank the Chinese wine kek XD it's ok chief... AIYAHHH!!!~~~ that shit into oblivion hahaha
Dem Chinese wines, tho 🤣🤣🤣
They’re what we jokingly call “sonrisa de león” wines, here in Chile. Because when you drank them, you grimaced showing your teeth, like lions (and other big cats) sometimes do!
great figure of speech!
Hello Konstantin, it is nice to see a bottle of wine from Turkey on the table. Our country has a great potential for winemaking, but most people here have some stupid obsessions. I have a question for you. In normal times I live in "Konstantinople," after the emergence of the pandemic I moved to my hometown in the Black Sea Region. This region's wines were not the best throughout history, but today I read an interesting article. According to Xavier de Planhol (Geographer) there was some "sort of" terroir in Tirebolu (Tripolis) for a long period and its wines were among the bests around the Black Sea. Alongside native varieties, I think the Anatolian Greeks might have been using Isabella for winemaking before the population exchange of 1923. Our region is humid and rainy, not a good place for making wine (that is the raison d'etre for Isabella as far as I know), but last year I had an interesting experiment with Isabella. I made some wine intentionally with the most primitive tools and knowledge. I did only crush the grapes, macerated them almost one month, then fermented them for one more month and then "aged" it for only three months. The result was strangely nice. It was a little bit foxy but it also had a rich flavour. That was my first attempt for making wine, and I started learning more about it after this experience. Normally Isabella is not a popular choice for wine, and I wonder your opinion; or it might be even better if you taste some Isabella next time (while tasting weird or cheap wines).
I should taste Isabella and other Hybrids in a video!
Masters of Wine Peter Koff and Patrick Farrell both agreed that Meiomi produces some of the worst wines out there. They also seem to hate Freak Show wines. I want you to sort out some of you least favorite wines and tell us why you hate them. I also want to see how much you agree with these Masters of Wine.
Yes, I can do that.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Thank you, I'm glad to see Masters of Wine like yourselves are actually sharing these information with the rest of us. I'm learning a lot.
I’ve been collecting tasting experiences with interesting wines. Turkey has some great wines, although at the airport in Istanbul when I was looking for a Turkish wine, the staff asked me why I’d ever want a Turkish wine and why not have this excellent wine from Burgundy? (I declined to say I can get a much better wine from Burgundy on my own, thank you). I also had some interesting experience with Mexican wine. Japanese “wine” (yes, from grapes not plum). Some interesting wine from China and I almost got a sponsored trip to visit a producer (ahem factory). But my fave so far has been Colorado Chardonnay. I was flying through and so badly wanted to get a bottle for back home but they only sold them at a bar and the bar wouldn’t sell me a sealed bottle. So I got them to open a bottle and then immediately cork it back fully again. I was able to take it on the plane as a carry on. It was actually quite good!
try some scandinavian wines
I would love to! Are there good online shops where I can buy them?
How can you rate a good wine 78 points and Great Wall Red Wine with 75 points????
Maybe one surprised me. Both were average or slightly above average.
Not sure if you’re joking about the Moldovan bottle 😀
Musar ist immer geil 🤑
what about a video tasting UNICORNS wines ???? :D
Good idea - you bring the wines and I taste them ;)
Wish you could try my mine and tell me what you think about it .
3:56 LOL
you showed kalecik karası first and you tried boğazkere???
my wafe came home one day with a blue wine .
can't remember the name but i opened it , tasted it and binned it . what a crap.
know which one i mean ?
I have a bottle in my cellar ...
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine like it ?
What use is 100 points if lousy "stay away" wine gets 60 points? :P
But I largely do the same when rating beer so...
To call a very well known wine such as Chateau Musar as a FREAK is strange. Well, at least he liked it
Thank you for sacrificing your taste buds for the viewers. I hope you rinse your mouth to save your taste buds and I hope you had some great wine to reward yourself for the pain that you endure.
You need to learn about more Turkish regions as a MW . Turkey has more than 100s of wineries nowadays . And not only local varieties .. but also good CABs and Blends my fellow friend pleasee 🍷🍷
i think great wall add some msg to their wines lol
Once i bought a bottle of wine visiting the Great Wall of China,
Had the same reaction…
I tried a wine from India a few months ago and it was horrible. If someone gave it to me to try it blindfolded I even would not have known it was wine. It was more of an liquid accident - pure harassment for my mouth.
It was a Merlot as far as I remember...
I tried the red Great Wall once in a Chinese restaurant in Germany...it was horrible! Tasted like rotten mushrooms.
Yes, what a wine ...
How could you only give chateau musar 91 points? Could be one of the best wines i have ever tried. Should be 94 points or more, according to me.
91 points is a pretty great score in my book.