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| The floor at LIWF 2012 |
I was lucky enough to be given the day off to go down and
represent Moncharm
at the LIWF and more specifically the Union Des Grand Crus Bordeaux 2008
tasting. It was a beautiful summer’s day and I met some great people within the
industry to discuss wine investment
with but the 2008’s proved to be quite a challenge to taste as most of them
were quite closed down now and would definitely benefit from a few years of
cellaring (a tough tasting indeed). However the art of wine tasting is to be
able to recognise quality even if the wine is young. I won’t go into details
about each and every wine I tasted as there were far too many to mention but
the real standouts were as follows.
Clinet 2008 – The star of the show – full bodied –Powerful
and very alcoholic-Certainly one to watch.
Lynch Bages 2008 –A long standing favourite of mine-very tannic
and dry-cherries spice and cedar-should be excellent in years to come.
There were other Chateaux that will certainly be excellent
in years to come, Pichon lalande springs to mind it was soft sweet and very
pleasant on the palate, Clerc Milon was also worth a mention.
Chateau Doisy Daene (Sauternes) was an absolute pleasure to drink
with a fabulous nose of grapefruit that once on the palate turned into a sweet
tropical fruit bomb. I can safely say I will be buying a case of this fairly
soon as I was impressed.
