Les Amants du Chateau de Mont Perat 2004

Les Amants du Chateau de Mont Perat 2004

Appellarion Premières Côtes de Bordeaux controlee

Silky but well depth with deep red ripen fruits.

Beautiful label. The orange is an inspiring colour to me this year. It connects with the contents well. Very nice one.

Masi Masianco 2007

Masianco 2007

Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Pino Grigio 75% and Verduzzo grape 25%

Colour is notably yellowish, flowery aroma.

Good with white meat fish.

Masottina 2007 Piave

Masottina 2007

Pino Bianco

DOC Piave

Muscat Bailey A 2007, Chateau Sakaori

Muscat Bailey A 2007

Chateau Sakaori

Could not believe muscat bailey A turns out good wine now.

Congratulations!

Muscat Bailey A is a grape introduced/ developed by Mr. Zenbei Kawakami, the father of Japanese wine in 1927 (S.2) . The age 2007 was good vintage for Japanese grapes. In addition to strawberries, you may feel some dark cherry or some kind of berry lays. Good with casual coocking.

Koshu 2008 Chateau Sakaori

Koshu 2008

Chateau Sakaori

Barrel Fermentation

Year 2008 was difficult due to the bad weather. Grapes are from Yahata area and Chino area of Shioyama, Yamanashi.

Good with white meat fish, grilled chicken

Chateau Saint Romans Bordeaux 2004

Chateau Saint Romans

Bordeaux 2004

by SAS Vignoble Chateau Barreyre

I do not know where I get it, but not too bad. Though aged 5 years in my house, but still delightful colour and less tannig. Springly feeling.

Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna Bianco 2008

Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Etna Bianco 2008

Nello Mascalese and Nerello Mantellato

(DOC)

White meat fish with olive oil sauce. Maybe better with a bit strong spice and favour like tomato.... Smooth with fresh fruits aroma. The Etna is called "Bourgogne of Mediterranean sea"

Cantine Sasso 2000

Cantine Sasso 2000

Aglianico del Vulture D.O.C.

http://www.spreadwine.com/data/file/data11/23.shtml

I was not so fond of this wine.

Nipozzano 1999 Chanti Ruffina

Nipozzano 1999
Riserva
Chanti Ruffina DOCG
Frescobaldi

Assissi Rosso 2004

Sportoletti Assissi Rosso 2004

Sangiovese 50 and Merlot 50

Mixture of berries, very good cost performance.

Nouveau 2009

Beaujolais-Villages Nouveau

Primeur

from left: Joseph Drouhin, Louis Jadot and Jean Bererd (Domain de la Madone)

All of them were lovely!

Morey-Saint-Denis 1st cru, Magnien 2002

Morey-Saint-Denis 1st cru 2002

Clos Sorbe

Bourgogne

Frderic Magnien

I could enjoy every moment right after opening this bottle.

Bourgogne wine changes its character quite rapidly. Within 10 minuets, sweet scent from a bunch of orchid bouquet came out from my glass. This was the happiest moment ever! NN..

My main dish tonight is Okinawa Agu Poak shabu-shabu. Yammy yammy.

Rubaiyat Merlot, Shiojiri 2002

This wine is quite strong flavour without tanning.
Excellent!
Rubaiyat Merlot, Shiojiri 2002
One of the 1252 bottles.

Marufuji Winery, Katsunuma

Washington Hills Merlot 2005

Washington Hills Merlot 2005

Columbia Valley, Washington

Casual, light taste.

Tom brought back from Seattle this year.

Unfortunately it did not match with Japanese broiled eels.

So we opened another one.

Lucente 1999

Got to drink it...

How many do we have??

Japanese wines

Grace's Gris de Koshu 2007

Chuo winery - Grace

and

Rubaiyat Koshu Barrel Aged 2007

Suitable wines for Sashimi.

Koshu Gris de Gris 2007

Kosu Gris de Gris 2007

Chateau Mercian

The colour is not grayish. This is rather brown as a white wine.

Koshu 2007 Cuvee Denis Dubourdieu

This is dry but so acidic.

Over 3,000JPY? How come?

Suenos 08 del mediteraneo, Spain

Suenos
del mediterraneo
Macabeo grape
Utiel-Requena, Spain

Young light wine to go with white meat fish.

Kumala, Chardonnay Semillon

Kumala

Chardonnay Semillon

Western Cape, South Africa

Not much chance to have South African wine. Not bad!

Melon and pear flavours.

I heard that British loves it.

Planeta La Segreta 2008

Planeta
La Segreta
Bianco di Sicilia 2008
IGT



Light greenish colour, with fruits aroma.
Product of Italian grape, Grecanico, Chardonnay、Vionie, Fiano

Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio 2007 Riserva

Mezzacorona
Pinot Grigio 2007
Riserva
Italy

Golden colour, floral tones, exotic fruit, ripe aromas. Mezzacorona locates Dolomites along the Italian Alps.
I would love to visit there some day.

Rocca Guicciarda Chianti Classico Reserva 2000

Rocca Guicciarda 2000
Chianti Classico Reserva

Yes, I remember the tanning of this wine.

Benziger 2005 Pinot Noir

Benziger 2005
Pinot Noir
Ricci Vinyard
Los Carneros

Rich fruit but dry. Quite lots of tanning 30 miniutes after opening.

Masottina 2007 Piave

Masottina 2007

Pinot Bianco

PIAVE

Conegiliano, Trevizo

CALERA 2006 and 2007

Calera 2006 & 2007

Chardonnay

Nice to have 2 vintages and trying to find out difference with Tom.

La Vite Lucente

La Vite Lucente 1999
Toscana, Italy
Frescobaldi and Mondavi's Toscana wine.

Sangiovese 65% and merlot 35%

I still have couple of those. If you wish to send flowers and wine in Tokyo, pls contact me.

Hugonis 2000

Hugonis 2000

Tenuta Rapitala

Sicilia, Italy

No idea what kind of grapes they are. They must have local grapes. Typical Italian red wine. I had it when Meiji-ya super market is in Koganei. They used to have good wine selection.

Criollas, Chile

Los Criollas 2008
Sauvignon Blanc

Floral and citrus fruits, bit of grass.
Not bad at all!

Panul 2008, D.O. Central Valley, Chile

So reasonable price and the taste is not so bad.

There must be many good wine in Chile!

Panul Chardonnay 2008

D.O. Central Valley, Chile

by Vinedos Errazuriz Ovalle

Peach, pear, and orange , something mixed fruit, a bit of harbal fragrance.

Good for our table wine during summer.

Terre al Monte 2007

I know I should jot down immediately whatever I feel when I drink it! I remember this was good, but cannot explain how and why good it was!

Terre Al Monte 2007
DOC Castel del Monte
Rivera

Benziger Carneros 2000

Benziger Carneros 2000

So hot, but I had again good fish with butter-wine sauce.

We need something rich but not too sweet as the weather is so hot.

CALERA 2006

This is a onion tarte. Famous cocking of Alsace, France.

We looked for some Alsace wine, but out of stock. We had CALERA 2006. Good but 2007 better????

Chassagne-Montrachet 2005

We are in the middle of summer vacation. As it is so hot in Tokyo, I have no particular plan to go somewhere. I enjoy cocking in the evening now. From left, small apetizer, summer vegetable assort with pumpkin, togan (summer melon like...) and Okura, a bit sticky green vegetable. The main dish is meunier of sole fillet, just simple butter sauce.

Wine, Chassagne-Montrachet 2005 by Philippe Colin. Weak aroma but barrel.

Principe di Corleone Sophia, Catarratto 2008

Another Italian wine.
The grape is Catarratto, also from Sicilia.

Elegant bouquet if it is chilled well. This is also very reasonable so we went back and bought couple more.

New wine bucket

It works out very good. We definitely need to chill 2 bottles at once during summer time in Tokyo.

The wine on the left: Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, Classico
Very reasonable, only cost us 1,200JPY or so. Fresh and fruity!
Organic? OK, just found the grape is Verdicchio. Good with Sanma Sashimi!
my reference: http://www.japanitalytravel.com/back/vino/2003_12/12.html
The reason why Italian is, just recently I had a chance to taste various different Italian wine. Not a single grape familiar with. They have good wine in Sicilia!!

The wine on the right: Grace Kosyu
Yes, Sashimi party tonight.

Poderi Luigi Einaudi, BAROLO 1996

Poderi Luigi Einaudi
Neu Canubi, BAROLO 1996
I had a great chance to taste lots of different unique wine from Italy last Friday. Indeed, so many local grapes and none of them I knew. So we remember that we had couple Italian wine which we purchased many years ago. Yes, it is time to open!
Barolo is a north-west area of Italy, land with mineral, therefore grapes naturally contains some mineraly taste and tannin.

Grace Kosyu 2007

Grace Kosyu 2007
It is a good vintage.

From Dijon

The wine is one of our daily selection and the dijon mustered, which I found at an import store. I made a mustered sauce for steaks. The mustered is quite good!
Vine de Bourgogne: Jean-Louis et Diedier AMIOT

Meursault- Blangny

Meursault-Blangny 1996
Domaine Joseph Matrot 1er cru

This supporsed to be mild and creamy, but the bottle was rather acidity.
Well, I hope I can try another vintage. I had it w/ fish with mastered and sesami sauce.

French dish

My first try of french coocking. A white meat fish with sesami sauce.