Peter Bamford

Nottingham Wine Circle member (see @NottsWineCircle for weekly tastings), former wine merchant, Beaujolais lover, always learning about how wines age & breathe

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Special tasting of Loire Chenin Blanc - notes by Alec https://t.co/4j4YQbuedJ

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The reds for our group’s ‘best bottle’ tasting. Looking rather good!

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Brightness and intensity to the fruit. Meaty undertones of Gevrey. The tannin imprints without severity. Absolutely delicious. Further evidence that @MarkHaisma really aced the difficult 2013 vintage

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@owmarcel Oh, yes! I had a bottle a week ago. The kind of home run that's hit occasionally in warmer Beaujolais vintages. For years it's tasted like an en-primeur 1er Cru Gevrey-Chambertin. Now it's rounding into balance. Aromatic development awaited; maybe decades in hand! 5 left :))

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I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to taste Burlotto’s new Barolo - Castelletto. But as it was in a Fontanafredda restaurant at 20% of the UK price…

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Alps making an appearance at sunset

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Barbaresco

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If I had my own vineyard, an amphitheatre would be nice

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@alecfrusher @andylesliewino PS, I just re-read The Wine Advocate's review. Drink dates: 2040 - 2080!!

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It was my cooking… but at least the wines were… outstanding!!

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@alecfrusher That's very encouraging, thank you! I hear, though, that some of this is to do with taste. I love the taste of mature Riesling (in contrast to that of most other aged sweet wine), but some winelovers don't @andylesliewino

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@alecfrusher Compelling initial nose: all the yellow aspects of Riesling, turned up to 11. Palate has snappy balance, but it's rich, fat and wide, rather than extended; I hope it thins down and stretches out over time. A diner thought that richness was the inherent style, so best to drink now

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@JamesHubbard113 @AllBlacks @AMN74 @BradleyHorne @frankstero @pietrosd @jimofayr @FranceRugby @rugbyworldcup @ArdenPaul4 @TheWineKiwi @Liam3494 And it aged so dramatically! My first bottle of that wine, in 2011, was rather primitive. The other two bottles, in 2019 and last year, were open, complex, savoury beauties!

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@RandallGrahm @DarekGalasinski Agreed. I tasted the Lamarche '09s from barrel; they were wonderful across the board, and very different to the normal/average level of the estate. @Masterofwhine

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@andylesliewino @billnanson I really valued this post too. Was more focussed on the 1999 Vosne, with its well-explained closed period, re-opening, need for further ageing, and inherent quality. I’m imagining that many 2015s might have a similar life...

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@BernardCaille @alecfrusher Not too early for this (cold, wet) vintage. Restrained flavour profile, which had deteriorated to browns the next day. I think it was fractionally past peak, and I will continue to drink up almost all my other 2007 red Burgs. Posh gear anyway!!

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Holographic tannin! Cool vintage I think a necessary part of that texture; letting the terroir speak

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Great tasting... which included two bottles of the same wine (blind). One good, one 'too old', reminding of the importance of good storage

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Last night's wines . The theme was "have I kept it too long?" Most were very good with only a few completely knackered.#wine #winetasting #winetimе @NottsWineCircle

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@hubiegallagher @atkinson_mw @Wine_Cuentista I responded to that thread by buying some too!! @alecfrusher accepted the (your) case and joined in. The Au Champ Salomon 2020. Arrived today, but not planning to open for many years. Very many thanks, everyone, for the insights!

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Impatience got the better of me. Infamously-tannic house style still in evidence, if preserving strong red fruit. Still-minty oak too. Traces of orange & earth add interest. This Malconsorts plot was sold to Dujac in 2005. It would be a dream to taste what they’re doing with it!