’The Gastriad’ (my V3 notes)
Some comments...
Ver mensaje de GastronautaGreat TNs, Gastro. Bravo! I like your style describing wines.
I agree with most of your TNs, specially regarding Marboré. Funny enough, ";soulless"; is the same thought I had when I tried it the last time (not in the Verema Encounter). Perhaps we are becoming too sophisticated and intellectual with the wines we drink... :-) Agreement too on Viñas del Vero: their 2002s are quite inferior regarding 2001, specially on Secastilla.
My two main disagreements from your TNs are Artadi Grandes Añadas 1998 and Trasnocho 2001.
The 1998 Grandes Añadas didn’t impressed me much and it was the first I tasted that afternoon (I was impatient with trying the top wines from this famous winery which I don’t know at all). I found a wine quite closed and too big and sweet in the mouth (I wrote: ";un poco mazacote";; you can translate... :-)
Regarding Trasnocho 2001 I found it too sweet and a bit too much for my taste and sense of what a balanced wine must be. Perhaps just needs much more time in bottle. I keep one and I’ll tried it probably next year.
Re: Stock of wines
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchMy cellar is notoriously disorganized, so I do not have such a specific idea as you do. I would estimate between 200 and 250 2001s from Spain, so we seem to have employed a similar buying strategy. Almost all my purchases are now in my possession, but I still have three or four cases and several magnums on the way.
A little detail...
Ver mensaje de WaltZalenskiWalt, when I said 200 bottles I was referring to my total stock of bottles. My 2001s are, right now, only 12 bottles perhaps. I live in a flat so my storage area is limited. I can stock some wines in a country house from my family but the temperature conditions are not very good.
You say ";250 2001s from Spain";. My God! What is your total stock of wines?
200 bottles in your cellar...
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchAnd you say you can be drinking for 2-3 years? Paco would have bottles for 2-3 weeks! ;))))
Cheers,
Jose
What stamina !!!
Ver mensaje de GastronautaYou deserve some kind of award !
that you could even keep notes after such a marathon
is deeply impressive...or were u spitting ????
Thanks for the notes and the buying guide !!
Re: Mauro 2001
Ver mensaje de GastronautaGastronauta,
can you explain these comments to me ?
2002 irregularity ?
2001 scores ?
Mauro is a particular favourite of mine.
Have a case of 2001 on order so I was a little disturbed by your tasting notes.
Thanks
Re: A little detail...
Ver mensaje de Juan SuchTotal? Who knows? But by far the biggest percentage is 2001s, perhaps 33% of the total. I’m concerned about 2002 and 2003, and you would not want me to die of thirst, would you?
Tasting Notes and wines drunk
Ver mensaje de joseI believe at least 70% of Paco’s TNs are from comparative tastings (which I mostly ";suffer";, too :-)). I am an increasingly sceptic taster when I have to get a whole TN from a wine in less than 5 minutes. It’s unfair for the wine, for myself and for the potential readers of my poor TNs :-)
Definitively, I will never be a Parker, a Paco Higón or a Gastro :-))