2008 Bordeaux Tasting @ Singapore -scores

Blanc -white
89 Château Smith-Haut Lafite, Pessac-Leognan
Rouge -red
93 Château Smith-Haut Lafite, Pessac-Leognan
92 Château Montrose, St.Estephe
91 Château Rauzan-Segla, Margaux
91 Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac
91 Château Kirwan, Margaux
91 Château Canon ,St.Emilion
91 Château Beaumont, Haut Medoc, Cru Bourgeois
91 Château Pichon-Baron, Pauillac
90 Ormez de Pez, St.Estephe
90 Château Giscours, Margaux
90 Château Beychavelle, St.Julien
90 Château Branaire-Ducru, St.Julien
90 Château Talbot, St.Julien
89 Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux
89 Château DuTertre, Margaux
89 Château Leoville-Poyfere, St.Julien
88 Malartic La Graviere, Pessac-Leognan
88 Château Phelan Segur, St.Estephe
88 Château Leoville-Barton, St.Julien
87 Domaine de Chevalier, Pessac-Leognan
87 Château Haut Bailly, Pessac-Leognan

Just back from Central Otago trip.
Pinophile haven!!

Anyone there?

2009.10.13 KL

1994 Chateau La Lagune (Haut Medoc, Bordeaux, France)
Well made bordeaux, wonderfully matured to display attractive secondary notes.

1997 Meerlust Rubicon (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Balanced and delighful, equally well matured.

2009.10.07 KL

200? Quinta das Tecedeiras (Douro, Portugal)
Bold, intense, wine with medium complexity and nice structure. Pleasurable now yet capable of improvement with a few years in the cellar.

2001 Ridgeback Shiraz (Paarl, South Africa)
Drinking at its best with fruit now toned down and some nice secondary notes .

2004 Ridgeback Cabernet Sauvignon (Paarl, South Africa)
A beautifully layered wine and was very, very attractively priced.

2005 de Trafford Cabernet Sauvignon (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Textbook cabernet sauvignon flavours with purity of fruit one expects from the very talented hands of Dave Trafford.

2007 Veenwouden Vivat Bacchus (Paarl, South Africa)
Delightfully fragrant wine with highish acidity.

2009.10.01 KL

1994 Chateau Montrose (St. Estephe, Bordeaux, France)
Tobacco and cigar box on a bed of mineral notes. Great balance and length. Initially rich and plush but evolves to show more complexity and balance

1994 Dominus (Napa, California, USA)
Displays tobacco and mineral notes reminiscent of a bordeaux

1994 Chateau Pichon Lallande (Pauillac, Bordeaux, France)
elegant and structured with dark fruit, tobacco and leather notes

1994 Grange (South Australia, Australia)
Deep, intense yet balanced wine with firm and youthful tannins. 3-5 more good years to go

1988 Chateau Palmer (Margaux, Bordeaux, France)
Good depth and structure with nice fruit and balance. Precise flavours. Evolves to display some chocolate notes.

2009.09.23 Cherating

2006 Louis Jadot Chardonnay (Burgundy, France)[WHITE WINE]
Value for money white burgundy. More elegantly structured than 2005

2004 Mulderbosch Faithful Hound (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Unlike the 2005, I would not recommend this one)

2005 Sadie Family Sequillo Red (Swartland, South Africa)
Yummy ......... luscious fruit with some complexity and hint of minerality

2007 Mulderbosch Sauvignon Blanc (Stellenbosch, South Africa)[WHITE WINE]
Woww. Great wine at great price. Fragrant, brimming with fruit and hint of minerality adding nice complexity

2007 Sadie Family Sequillo White (Swartland, South Africa)[WHITE WINE]
Yummy ......... like the luscious fruit with some complexity and hint of minerality. An exciting white which gets better and better

2005 de Trafford Blueprint Shiraz (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Pure expression of shiraz fruit with medium complexity, power and length. Great value.