BORSA VINI ITALIANI 2018

On the 8th of March it was time to meet some producers of the South of Italy with courtesy of ICE (Italian Trade Agency) in Brussels.

Present ware producers of Puglia, Campania, Basilicata Calabria and Sicily.

Because I visited Puglia several times over the years, and I think they have still a lot of work to do to be commercialised in Belgium, because wines with over 15,5 % of alcohol are not easy to drink, I did  refuse not taste them.

However I was very surprised to discover several wines from Campania and Campania with great wines, in white and red.  Also I tasted some good wines from Calabria which I visited earlier a few years ago.
I liked very much the wines from the Greco , Greco di Tufo , Aglianico and some other less known grape varieties.

For now I want mention the winery's I liked very much because I want to learn more about this regions and see and experience how they work.

So I will have to visit them in person some day later in the year.

Many thanks to the organisation and till later.

Timé

UNION DES GRANDS CRUS DE BORDEAUX

On the 6th of February it was time again for the Bordeaux producers to present their wines of the millesime 2015.

In an earlier post you can see my impressions of this years production although the wines ware still in barriques or tanks. I had the impression that the wines ware very good but ware lacking some content.

Now the wines are ready for commercialisation for the public I'm happy to see my impressions came trough.

Overall of the producers present the wines are very good but only a few I can say are great, to bad some ware not capable to make wines that are good enough for this kind of year,

I can understand it is not easy in a difficult year to produce great wines but one can't say this year was difficult. A mistake by the owner or enologist?

Also it is amazing to see the big difference of quality from some neighbours producers. Some are very good but some are really great.

My final thoughts are that we have mostly beautiful and early drinkable wines and I would like to compare them to the style and difference of the years 2009 and 2010. 2015 very smooth and next year (2016) really great.

Timé