Sunday, March 6, 2011

Antinori Tignanello 2006

Antinori Tignanello 2006

Another Italian famous red to be explored!
This is a supertuscan where they do not achieve the highest classification of italian DOCG, but as a IGT wines, this supertuscan has overwhelmed many others wines. the wine is made of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and others blends to give its Bordeaux like character wine and its true expression of the soils.
This dark intense red wine has a mineral and oaky notes with cigar box aromas, blackcurrant and plums on the nose. This wine although is still young but after futher decanting for 1 hour, it develops from a young green-ish type of flavors to fruits, ripe fruits of plummy character flavors with touch of mineral, it feels like a very stuctured wine lingering all around your tongue. Medium body red with high astringency and very long finishing.

Shaw&Smith Shiraz 2008

Shaw&Smith Shiraz 2008

Probably the first Australian wine I blog about in this blog, I found the wine is quite astonishing and I felt it must have redeem something in our Asian palates.
It denotes a dark purple red color with a lot of herbs,liquorice flavors, sweet herbs like character, peppercorn, touch of greeen pepperbell and crush of plums and cassis. On the palates it shows the cool climate (Adelaide Hills) Shiraz how vibrants it was, with medium bodied shiraz that has a lot of spices,oak and pepper touching the long finishing. Smooth medium tannins and offers plenty of alcohol in mouth.
This wine definately goes well with lots of Asian cuisine particularly with some thick sauce or heavy gravy meal.

tasted on 26 Feb 2011- Hans