Archive for WINE TASTING
HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (3)
THE TASTING PROOF
I tasted 6 wines, 3 from the Klassik, 2 from the Lagen and 1 from the Reserve range. My opinion about those wines is of course a personal one. This few tasting notes are just meant to tell you the impression those wines made on me (and my wife), not to tell you [...]
HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (2)
HANNES PHILOSOPHY
I am sure one could write a whole book about Hannes philosophy. I will just refer to a few quotes and to his new, self-designed, wine labels.
Just look at his logo, it is pretty obvious what Hannes wants to tell us:
“The Earth makes the wine… it is the soil that makes the wine [...]
HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (1)
Some weeks before the festive season, I received a nice message from Bettina Bäck (Wine & Partners). She wrote me about HANNES SABATHI, a 31 years old Styrian winemaker, whose wines (at least a couple of them) just had been introduced in the Netherlands. As I knew the importer, VINITES, and the talented wine buyer [...]
VINUL.RO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2011 – OFF-COMPETITION TASTINGS (6)
On the last official tasting day, we left Bucharest for a long trip by bus to the Urlateanu Manor 1922 in … Urlati. The distance was not really what made it such a long trip (only 85 km from Bucharest), but again, we needed some time to get out of the Romanian capital. During the [...]
VINUL.RO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2011 – OFF-COMPETITION TASTINGS (5)
After the nice but a bit chaotic lunch at Restaurant GINGER, there was no much time left for tourism… We went back to the hotel and prepared ourselves for the next meal and tasting… For the ones who do follow a special diet to lose some weight, I am afraid this will not work during [...]
