| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2021 Weingut Dorli Muhr Blaufränkisch samt & seide PrellenkirchenCarnuntum more |
5/16/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 pointsSupple and juicy Blaufränkisch, bright fruit and acidity, lovely peppery energy, whiff of floral lift, minerally freshness, creamy texture, lovely length. |
| White |
2019 Muchada-Léclapart UniversAndalucía Palomino Fino more |
5/16/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsMade with 100% Palomino from Viña la Platera in Pago Miraflores, 12.5% ABV. Chalk and green apple, ripe citrus and a touch of reduction, generous and energetic, juicy acidity, whiff of green olive, lovely salinity and precision, impact and length. |
| White - Off-dry |
2019 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
5/16/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 pointsStunning Spätlese. Complex, intense, energetic, creamy and subtle, grapefruit and elderflower, airy and smoky, effortless elegance and harmony, creamy concentration, exciting tension between sweetness and vibrant acidity, great drive on the finish. Delicious now, decades in it. |
| Red |
2022 Yura Pinot Noir La Partie Et Le ToutAlsace more |
5/13/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsMuch better than the bottle tasted in December last year. That bottle felt a bit dry and skinny, but the fruit expression is lovely here. Pure and bright and floral, whiff of cedar, spicy depth, elegant weight, fresh and grippy but ripe, lovely balance, tight and youthful finish with good length. |
| Beer |
NV Symbiose Brewing / Blending Vlaams / Rood Fruit 21/02Groningen Malt, Grain more |
5/12/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 pointsTheir first beer made with dark malts, fermented with Roeselare yeast. After a year of fermentation, the beer was macerated with currants, wood, raspberries and blackcurrant lambic, 6.5% ABV. Marvellous black fruit on the nose, candied strawberries, sour brown beer palate, uncompromising acdity, gently woody, energetic and long finish with appetising bitters. At Café Gijs, Amsterdam, NL. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Coessens Champagne Exogyre Extra-Brut Lieu-dit LargillierPinot Noir more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 pointsLargillier is a monopole in Ville-dur-Arce of the Coessens family, who also produce the grapes for the famous Largillier by Guillaume Selosse. Made with 100% Pinot Noir in a solera started in 2006, production of around 1000 bottles in certain years. Rich and vinous style, layered and complex, expansive and suave mouthfeel, very good resonance and length. At Bar du Champagne, Amsterdam, NL. |
| Red |
2018 Tony Bornard Le Garde-corpsArbois Pupillin Trousseau more |
5/11/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Bak, Amsterdam, NL): Very stemmy nose, really powerful and tannic on the palate, quite unusual concentration for Trousseau, clearly a child of the hot vintage, black fruit and floral lift, warm spices, grippy but lifted finish with excellent persistence. Not the most elegant of wines, the alcoholic heat (14.9% ABV) shows a bit, but certainly impressive. |
| White |
2019 Tony Bornard Au fil des GénérationsVin de France Chardonnay more |
5/11/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Bak, Amsterdam, NL): Energetic, pure and natural, intense yet relaxed, the fruit has some “gras”, vibrant acidity, lemon juice, earth and yeasty notes, linear and precise, Riesling-like florality, long and ever so slightly nutty on the finish. Can a natural wine be classical? Yes it can, classical means exemplary, not traditional… |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Marguet Champagne Premier Cru Yuman 20 Blanc de BlancsChardonnay more |
5/11/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Bak, Amsterdam, NL): Made with 100% Chardonnay from Vrigny. No dosage, as that might cloud the terroir expression. Earthy, spicy style, ripe citrus, bright acidity, lovely balance, intensity and length. |
| White |
2019 Bibich Riserva R5Skradin White Blend more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Flore **, Amsterdam, NL): Noticeable American oak, lovely bitters, fruity complexity, whiff of hazelnut, rounded and rich but fresh and energetic, long and minerally finish. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Domein Holset Chardonnay Dame van HolsetLimburg more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Flore **, Amsterdam, NL): Made with 100% Chardonnay, whole bunch, direct press, base vintage 2020 (70%) with 30% vin de réserve from 2019, 50% fermented in French oak, 50% in steel, 24 months sur lattes, disgorged March 2023 with a dosage of 6 gr/l. Crisp, nice yellow fruit, hints of spice and herbs, gentle mousse, very good length. |
| Sake |
NV NAMAZAKE NO JOZEN MIZUNO GOTOSHI JUNMAI GINJOJapan Rice more |
5/12/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsNamazake, so unpasteurised. Polishing ratio 60%, SMV +5, acidity 1.6, 15.5% ABV. Well developed orchard fruit and flower aromas, energetic and intense palate, yeasty and salty, delicately sweet, lovely tension, great drive on the long and dry finish. At restaurant Ikkoku, Amsterdam, NL. |
| White |
2022 Julien Renard Chardonnay TrockenRheinhessen more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Flore **, Amsterdam, NL): Vines and grapes from Chris Barth in the south of Rheinhessen (Alzey) on red sandstone. Aged for 15 months in neutral oak, bottled unfiltered, no sulfur added. Intense and playful, delightfully ripe and sweet orchard fruit, whiff of spice, flowers and minerals, bright acidity, yeasty complexity, gentle bitters, long and energetic finish. |
| Red |
1974 Domaine Chantal Rémy Clos de la RocheClos de la Roche Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 pointsA private lunch (Restaurant Flore **, Amsterdam, NL): Pristine bottle, level 3.5cms below the cork. From an old, cold German cellar. Fully mature but lively appearance; wonderfully fragrant nose, perfectly clean and healthy, hints of tobacco and cedar, candied sweet strawberries and autumn forest, rose hip, plum, warm spices and hint of vanilla, harmonious and lively; light and elegant palate, sweet and charming without any sense of decay, harmonious acidity, still good tannic grip; very good resonance and dreamy length. Holds up well for an hour. With old wines, provenance is everything. |
| Cider - Sparkling |
2022 Domaine Dandelion CidreBourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Apple more |
5/12/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Wine bar The Bottle Shop, Amsterdam, NL): Made with apples from Burgundy, fermented in oak barrels, bottled by gravity, unfilitered, no sulfur added, 7% ABV. A wonderfully pure and precise apple cider. Fullish dandelion yellow colour; whiff of wood on the nose, floral lift; crisp and fresh on the palate, apple juice, bright but fine mousse, hint of almond paste; lovely drive and energy on the finish, with beautiful apple skin notes. |
| White |
2022 L'Ostal Levant Le Bleu du CielVin de France Chenin Blanc more |
5/12/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private lunch (Wine bar The Bottle Shop, Amsterdam, NL): Chenin Blanc from Cahors. Spontaneous fermentation, aged in older wood, bottled unfined and unfiltered, no sulfur added. Relatively full buttercup yellow colour; wonderful minerally freshness on the lifted nose, lovely varietal typicity, linen and chamomile; great tension on the bright and energetic palate between succulent fruit and electric acidity, medium body (13% ABV), gentle bitters; complete finish, floral, whiff of yeast, with very good resonance and length. A beautifully clean and clear expression of natural Chenin Blanc in an unexpected part of France. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV J.M. Gandon Champagne Les Pièces Brut Nature V20Pinot Noir more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsVinified in oak with native yeasts, bottled unfined and unfiltered July 2021, disgorged October 2023, zero dosage, total SO2 21 mg/l, production of 1350 bottles and 100 magnums. Pale copper colour. Natural style Pinot Noir, red apple, rounded and supple, clear and pure expression, fruit and yeast, bracing acidity, a real kick of minerally energy, long and spicy finish. At Bar du Champagne, Amsterdam, NL. |
| Red |
1996 Château Moulin RicheSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/11/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 pointsSecond bottle from a full case purchased at auction recently. From an old German cellar. Pristine condition, level into neck. In remarkably fine shape, fresh and energetic, gravel and cedar, relatively slender but still with a good stuffing of fruit and spice, elegant and lively, good length. Perfect luncheon claret, Michael Broadbent would have opined, youthful for what it is. Holds up well on the second day - good storage is everything. |
| White |
2020 Domaine Francois et Antoine Jobard Puligny-Montrachet Le TrézinChardonnay more |
5/10/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsCool minerality, pure and precise, intense yet elegant, flowers and steel, classic Puligny style, tight citrus, bright and precise, firm bitters, very good length. From the list at Café Parlotte, Amsterdam, NL. |
| White |
1981 Staatsweingut Tokajihegyalja Szamorodni SzárazFurmint more |
5/11/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 pointsA recent acquisition at auction. From an old German cellar. Believed 1981. No legible vintage on the label or the short cork (printed with the words Tokaji Wine Trust). The neck label mentions "S 88 334625" however, and Szamorodni Száraz was usually bottled seven years after the vintage at the time. Medium golden colour; fresh and minerally nose, clean and clear but not very expressive, light aromas of candied fruit, bruised apples and white nuts, good depth; the palate is dry and steely, with nice volume but also slightly tired bitters; savoury finish, dry and grippy, good persistence. Old but perfectly healthy - especially impressive for a wine destined for the German (super)market(s) that was probably intended to be drunk more than thirty years ago. |
| White |
2021 Nicolas Barbou Folie InsolenteTouraine-Oisly Sauvignon Blanc more |
5/9/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 pointsA private lunch (Wine Bar Oocker, Amsterdam, NL): Organic viticulture, relatively young Sauvignon Blanc vines on soils of clay and sand, aged for 20 months in oak, 13.5% ABV. The floral aromatics are distinctly Riesling-like, yeasty notes from the long élévage, spicy depth; silky and rounded palate with considerable weight (13.5% ABV), fresh but soft acidity, succulent fruit, satiny texture, rich but elegant; lacks precision on the finish - for my palate at least. |
| Red |
2022 Vincent Paindavoine Coteaux Bourguignons Les PaquiersPinot Noir more |
5/9/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 pointsA private lunch (Wine Bar Oocker, Amsterdam, NL): From a lieu-dit in Vosne-Romanée just north of the village, and east of the D974 so outside the AOC, biodynamic viticulture (not certified), vines planted in 1968 (70%) and 2014, 100% destemmed, fermented with indigenous yeasts, aged in older barrels. Wonderfully delicate and perfumed, noticeable Vosne spice, elegant and playful, light on its feet, flowers and the purest crushed raspberries, perfect balance, subtle wood, tender tannins, dreamy finish, very good length. Perhaps not very complex, but so eminently drinkable. |
| Red |
2010 Château Haut-BatailleyPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/8/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsFifth bottle from a full case purchased at auction in 2020. Decanted two hours in advance. On fine form, youthful and energetic but comfortably in its drinking window, perfectly classical Pauillac / Cabernet style, elegant but a bit more masculine and muscular than previous bottles perhaps, refreshing acidity, firm tannins, very good resonance and length. Lovely now, good future. |
| Red |
2021 Portal del Priorat Priorat Negre de NegresGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
5/7/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private dinner (Restaurant Bennie's, Amsterdam, NL): Organic viticulture, in conversion to biodynamic, 15 months in foudres and French oak, 14% ABV. Delightful black cherry fruit, liquorous but fresh, violets and roses, palpable stony grip, good weight but avoids excessive ripeness, spicy slate, silky texture, gently grippy tannins covered in flesh, concentrated but transparent, generous and rounded but with a clear and precise expression, youthfully tight and dry finish, very good length. |
| White |
2019 Muchada-Léclapart ElixirAndalucía Palomino Fino more |
5/7/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 pointsA private dinner (Restaurant Bennie's, Amsterdam, NL): Organic and biodynamic viticulture. Made with 100% Moscatel de Chipiona from "El Camino del Puerto" from "Pago Abulagar" (0.7 ha), 15 months in French oak, 14% ABV, 1550 bottles produced. Rich Muscat aromas and rich and ripe fruit, the nose not unlike a fortified Rhône Muscat, quite dry and refreshing on the palate, good freshness and lots of chalky energy, clear and pure expression, nice fleshy weight, attractive bitters and yeasty complexity, convincing and expansive finish. Excellent and interesting. |
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