I'm a camera operator that travels and films with a myriad of subjects. I had a chance to follow a higher profile actor around the world for his own reality show. This person has a reputation for loving expensive red wines; also he seemed ok walking away from half finished bottles, or letting some crew get a pour of something special. This led me to splitting the last half of a 2012 Petrus with another colleague as well filming on the grounds of Sassicaia with an all included lunch/tasting at the end. The conditions of my job is probably the only way I would have had a chance to experience any of this, so I am grateful for the opportunity. While i was always attracted to aura of wine and the dusty cellar, these few sips were enough for me to want to continue my journey with wine and learn as much as I can; albeit with a mostly working class budget.
Our taste is not just subjective, but often very different what people really think it is tasty and what they tell it is tasty, especially wines, beers, or any type of fermented, or alcoholic drinks. Give a sip of beer or wine to a child and he/she reacts honestly.
Most important wine (to me) I’ve ever had was a 96 gaja Spurs - changed how I think about wine - since that day I stopped buying new world wines and started collecting Piedmontese - burgundy and Sangiovese wines. Other memorable wines for me Include Paolo Bea pagliaro, drouhin clos de mouches 2002, uccileria BdM 04 and Azelia San Rocco 2004
The best wine I’ve ever tasted was Chateau Lafite 1920 in the seventies. 100 points. This wine was what‘s become the definition of a great Bordeaux for me. More recently it was a Quinta do Cotto Grande Escolha 1985 from Portugal. The wine was 20 years old. Tastes like a great aged Bordeaux. I would rate this wine at 95 points and I bet that it would even be better today.
The best wine I've ever had...or rather, enjoyed the most, was the 1998 Tignanello. I drank it in 2006 and it was the first 'expensive' wine I'd ever tasted when I was starting to get to know wine. It was part of a birthday dinner for me, so that probably had to do as well. Enjoy your channel, cheers!
Thank you, Konstantin, for clarifying this a bit more. I think the main issue with the point systems is that they are subjective. However, if you can find a judge you trust, it can prove very helpful. Again, relatively new to the wine world, but to date I think the best wine I've ever had was from a local winery here in Texas. It was a Heath Sparkling Blanc de Blanc and it was absolutely delicious!
This was amazing. I’d love to see a video on how to asses different flaws/undesirable characteristics such as volatile acidity, oxidation, heat damage, “over the hill” wines etc. -Chris
So far my fav is Vina Tondonia 2008, Rjoja. Drunk this year while visiting Spain. I liked everything in the wine, fine aromas, and smoothness on the palate. Also, it was a great value for the money u pay.
The topic of expertise is one that just keeps on amazing me. I must say that wine tasting is a skill that I quite do not understand yet, thus, your master class has allowed me to continue trusting more criteria than main stream. Gracias!
The best wine I ever tasted was a Grand Cru Chablis--I think a Les Clos--from the mid 70s. I don't recall the exact vintage. It had the excellent balance and nose that you expect of any great wine, but what made it truly exceptional was its complexity. Its many flavors were layer upon layer. A truly great wine.
My best wines were probably a Pera Manca 2013 and Cobos Malbec Machiori 2012. No idea about the score those wines received, but I really enjoyed them. I’d be keen to see a video about your 100 points wines which didn’t get the 100 points by the critics. Also, maybe something around your best rated wines below $100 US. Btw, I really like your videos, congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I like the way Mr. Baum pronounces estimation of wines he evaluates. Being just a bit restrained adds up to the credibility of the opinion. Keep on presenting your valuations the way you do and you have got an ardent devotee in me. Thank you a lot. Best regards from Poland.
Really expensive wines are mostly out of my budget range (though I did put a 2017 of the Spotswoode in my wish list, thanks to this video), and being a music collector also means I have to weigh one interest against the other, so I very rarely buy wines over around 28 Euros (I have three in my cellar that broke the 30 Euro mark. Yet to try them, though). With that in mind, the best wine I've probably had is a Cascina Castlet Passum Barbera d'Asti Superiore 2016, which sells for around 28.50 in Norway. I find it exceptional. Rich, balanced, velvety tannins. Has become my "house wine" in the sense that I keep a bottle around for special occasions.
The only wine that I ever rated 100 points was a 1982 Haut Brion tasted in 2018. Two years later I opened another bottle and it was maybe 94 points. Both bottles were bought at release in 1986 and in perfect conditions. As the old saying goes there are no great wines, only great bottles.
Question: Does this indicate a flaw or problem? Is that actually normal for bottles of the same wine to age so differently? I wouldn't expect two years to make such a difference.
@@d_dave7200 Bottles variation is normal especially for older wine. Sometimes two bottles opened at the same time would show different states of development.
I'm not even convinced that Luca Maroni is a real person. It might be just a rating bot. Here is how you can identify a typical Luca Maroni 98/99 wine - Heavy Bottle - Over ripe and jammy. - Low acidity and/or tannins - Oak (vanilla) bomb
Don't know if it is the best wine ever but i had my first "wow" moment with a 2010 Icario Vitaroccia Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano. So soft, gentle and i could taste the minerals. After asking they told me that these grapes grow on a specific hillside and the roots had to go through limestone to find water.
Best wine? Really hard question. Probably the most enjoyable was the Taylor's 40 year Tawny Port on my 40th birthday. It's a magical wine and well worth the price tag.
One of my favourites ever is also a Tawny but a 30yr one. Even more so than the 40 which I tasted before I bought the 30. It was a Vasques de Carvalho.
Thanks to you for making this kind of comparison, it's very interesting! For my part, the best memory I have for a wine is the Champagne Pommery Cuvée Louise 1999, drunk 2 years ago... Fortunately I have another one in my cellar
Thanks again Konstantin. Personally I take many points based reviews with a pinch of salt and focus mire on critics whose taste is near to my own. The only time I maybe think something is a sure thing is if the two most prominent critics agree on a wine. There is one mind that I will never forget; it was a 1966 Volnay which I had the privilege of drinking in 1999. It just blew me away. Sadly I don’t remember the grower or the vineyard.
I had only the 2013 which was only 99pts, had it in 2019 but it felt the fruit was overpowering, it could have a bit more finesse/complexity. I had it side by side with a Dunn Howell Mountain 2013 and my personal opinion is the Dunn outscored it (Parker group only gave 96 to the Dunn).
I've had a few Amarones and Barolos that were 100 points for me, but my best one was a Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino 2007 that I drank in 2014, most balanced wine I've experienced. Thanks for the content, I hope you get to 100K subs soon, well deserved!
I was first exposed to drinking wine in the early 80's when I lived in northern California. Both of my brothers-in-law were avid wine drinkers and collectors of wine. Most of the wines I drank were either from Napa or Sonoma. Many of them were very good and cultivated within me a deep appreciation of fine wines. I had a surgery around 2010 that removed polyps from my nasal cavity and reduced my sense of taste and smell by about 80 percent. I can still taste the difference between a good wine and a bad wine but the bad wine just doesn't bother me like it would have long ago because of the surgery. I usually just drink box wine these days. It is cheap and it just doesn't make sense to spend more money on better wine quality when I can only just barely discern that better quality. Still, the box wine isn't terrible and I can enjoy the memories of the delicious wines from my youth as I drink the plonk. I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos that echo my fond memories of the flavors and tasting experiences of those bygone days when I could more appreciate them. I hope your channel thrives for as long as you desire to continue it. Thanks.
Enjoyed the session. The Vivino rating was 4.6, more in line with yours. I don’t recall the specific name of the vineyard, but Amarone, as a rule, been my most favorite wine, that gives me the best combination of balance, including price in the equation.
The best wine I ever had was a Vega Sicilia Unico 2006, I think it scored 98 Parker Points. A friend bought it and we were around 6 people drinking it, so I only had one glass. Afterwards we had a bottle of a wine that would probably score 88-90 points, so a very nice wine too, but the difference was mind boggling.
@@barbarabird3827 Sadly I am not in a position to store wines for that long, nor purchase them to keep. I tend to drink most wines within 2 years (stored in the living room, out of the sun, no other option) and the more expensive wines such as tignanello, I buy when I feel like drinking one haha
my favourite white so far is the baron de ley tres vinas 2017 and just last thursday we had a dinner and wine tasing with portugese wines from Torre de frade. Their 2008 grande reserva was great (in my humble opinion). so that would be my favourite red right now :) great video btw
Nice video…. Your sessions are very educational! I think scores can help, if you’re an everyday consumer or a wine geek, but they have different purposes. The everyday consumer can use a score to help them find something they can “trust” while the geek, if they find a professional who has a similar palate to theirs, can help them move into new varieties and varietals. In either case, I’ve had some stunning wines. A couple that stick out in my mind, 97 dead arm Shiraz from d’arenberg, 67 Yquem, 2010 Lopez De Heredia Vina Tondia Rose, 92 Peter Lauer Riesling Sekt, 90 Clos Sainte Hune, 2019 Scacciadiavoli Spumante Rose, 59 Solaria primitivo, 2017 Ben Rye Passito di Pantelleria, 2015 Corton-Charlemange Gran Cru. Not all “100” pointers, but each were memorable.
Very interesting and informative. Thanks :) I'd love to know which one you hold as the most priceworthy, i.e not the best. My favourite is the christmann idig spätburgunder GG
Hahaha, great interesting video. As a Sommelier, I take usually the points given by the "expert" carefully. I usually think that points are made for people that don't have an opinion.... therefore I tend to do not trust them in full!
I guess it is a 1995 château d'Yquem. I looked it up and it had 95 Parker points. But more important than the score was the occasion and the company, it was a 100 points night in my book. However these scores do help picking out a wine to buy. Thank you for this video, the system of scoring and your explanation is really interesting.
Schloss Johannisberg Riesling 'Grünlack' Spätlese. It blew me away with it's lightning acidity that countered the sweetness so impressively, together with an explosion of a thousand fruits in all facets in the mouth, so different even to other Spätlese I had to date. For me it was extremenly complex with a long lingering, delicious finish. It was not a 100 point Parker wine but a 100 point Suckling wine I believe.
I haven't seen you apply 100 points to anything yet. I would love to see what you consider to be 100 points. I thought you were going to give it to the Cristal you tried.
loved it (as always). an idea for a future video - have 3 wines that are outstanding (95 to 100 by RP) but with a small different in mark and try to rank them blind.
I'm glad you explained the score system for wines. I often see the Robert Parker-scored wines in Costco and am tempted. What do you plan to eat with the Spottswoode? Thanks. Tony
I recently discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying your videos and learning a lot, your explanations are very informative. That said I’d love to see some more video on wines that are widely available and popular in the $15-30$ range. Keep up the great content!
Some wines I found “meditative”: le Macchiole Paleo 2013, Tedeschi Monte Olmi 2011, Allegrini Amarone 1997, Ornellaia 2000, la Spinetta Vursu Vignetta Campe 2000, Jerman Tunina 2015, Giacomo Bologna Braida bricco dell’Uccelone 2015, Uccelliera Brunello 2015, Marisa Cuomo Fiorduva 2015. That’s right, all Italian wines, I love them!
The best wine experience was when I got a Château Haut-Laroque 2010 served by your classmate and MW Janek Schumann. The wine was perfectly prepared to drink and to enjoy, perfect temperature and well-aerated. Another awesome wine experience was when I was able to drink a Cos d’Estournel 2000 this year.
The funny thing is that if you pour the contents of the 100-point wine into the tetra pak and vice versa, and then open them as "unopened", many so called experts rate the cheap wine higher. I have witnessed that happen. Needless to say that the chap (not me) that pulled the trick was not very popular afterwards.
My best wine I ever tasted was a 2000 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere grand cru classé. I drank it this year and it was just sooo good. I payed 120euro’s for it, but I absolutely loved it.
I'm still a real newbie when it comes to wine. I'd consider myself a connoisseur when it comes to beer. I've got a long way to go before I could say I'm an expert on wine. With that qualification, the best wine I've had so far -- without a doubt -- is the 2021 Missing Spire Riesling from Left Foot Charley in Traverse City, Michigan. That's right, MICHIGAN. Tom Stevenson said that Brian Ulbrich, winemaker for left Foot Charley, is a white-wine genius. This, my first taste of his work, didn't disappoint after that high recommendation. I will be trying some more of Mr Ulbrich's work.
Do you think one of the problems with wine ratings is that it has biases of the taster personal preferences of certain styles? Ie. If Parker has a preference for big Napa cabs. Wonder if it’s best to rate only based on quality (balance, complexity, length etc) no matter the wine making style. And then describe the style separately
I like the chalanges you take on in your videos, maybe next time bring a concord to the workshop? that would be hilarious! cheers and greetings from Frankfurt!
Best wine, like, scored the best? Vik 2013, fantastic wine that really deserves the 95+ points it got from most critics. My personal favorite from these past few months is one called Random, made by Polkura, which I feel has been unfairly treated by local critics (scoring in the low 90s) when it's simply amazing, with a multi-layered complexity that few wines can even hope to achieve. Still, aged Tawny ports I personally like the best, they're just so amazingly concentrated and complex. They play on a different league compared with dry reds.
That certainly is a special one! Had it a few times when I worked in Stellenbosch. Did you try other Pinotage, and if so did you generally enjoy it, or not so much?
@@DeepPurpleIsTheBest Pinotage is a difficult grape to work with from what I've heard and is thus a hit or miss. From what I've tasted the wine farms situated towards the Paarl side of Stellenbosch and Paarl itself consistently produce the best Pinotage in South Africa in my opinion.
1997 sassicaia in a small village in the Italian alps together with steak fionrentina in 2016. The restaurant sold it below retail value for the new releases., so a double steal. 1982 pichon lalande got me into wine collection - and is the producer I lay down the most of.
Hi Konstantin, Gary and Malka here, Somms in Peru, we often watch your videos and love them, so great job. We were wondering if you could do a tasting of an important grape down here, Pais (Chile), Negra Criolla (Peru), Criolla Chica (Argentina). Can you get hold of wines made from this grape in Germany to compare countries? Keep up the great work...
In Brazil they make wine out of non-vitis vinifera grapes and the producers are allowed to call it table wine, whereas they classify vitis vinifera wines as "fine" regardless of quality or any other criteria. Table "wine" is sweet most of the times and the average consumer is accustomed to that taste so when they try real wine, they usually hate it because it's trocken LOL. That's been a huge setback for quality producers for many decades since they can't place their product at the price range they deserve even though Brazil has plenty of high quality producers. It makes me wanna kill myself when I serve good wine to some friends and they complain because it has no sugar.
Have not had many expensive wines, but had a glass of Yarra Yerring Dry Red No.1 2011 two years ago and the nose was enough for me. I've never smelled anything like it in a wine before, it was amazing. In fact the mouth feel and the taste was slightly disappointing afterwards, will never forget that experience. Now I have a benchmark for what a great wine should smell like at least. Love your show, wine critics lose their objectivity as soon as they become a commercial enterprise e.g. James Halliday (Australia - take off 3 - 4 points for his ratings if you want the realistic score). Much prefer objectivity of MW's as they are not rock starts but wine lovers.
I loved this explanation of the points system. I do have a question if you ever think to review your ratings based of retrying vintages after they have aged in bottles?
‘86 Margaux was up there. I also rated the 2018 Leoville Barton 98-100 from barrel at winery tasted in August 2019. It has everything you would want from the wine and nothing overpowering or out of place. Cheers
I still have one bottle of the '86 Chateau Margaux but think that it was not as long lived as the rest of the vintage and may be now over the hill. I have to open it one of these days.
For me, the best wines have been 1986 Mouton, 1982 Mouton and 1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional Port. These I rated 100 points with no reservations. All these tastings took place in the 1990s.
My best rated wines.... as a wine noob it's so hard to decide but I would say 2018er Franz Haas Moscato Rosa Schweizer aus Alto Adige. A crowd pleaser but could satisfy plenty of enthusiasts! BTW, so informative is this video as always and vielen dank!! cheers!!!
Loving your videos more and more. Very educational. Living near Napa Valley and seeing all the wines you feature in your channel is great. If you have some time and this is a subject you want to touch at some point, would you do a video reviewing great wines to cellar for 3-5 years. I.e. grab a bargain now and drink a master piece in a few years kind of angle... Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
Best red: Domaine Trapet; Chapelle-Chambertin 2009. Superbe wine, polish, delicate with some serious structure and power. Best White: Domaine Marcel Deiss; Altenberg de Bregheim 2007. Perfect balance between the sweetness and the acidity, like riding the perfect wave.
really enjoyed this video> it so happens I am currently trying to decide which vintage of Spottswoode to purchase, 2014 or 2017. Both the same price although everything I have read points to 2014 being one of the better years along with 2013 in the last 20 years or so. Thoughts or suggestions? Keep up the great work!
Hmmm, the best wine I have ever tasted? That’s not something I really keep track of, but I remember drinking a Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella that, at the moment I was drinking it, seemed to offer everything I could ask for in a wine. I enjoyed every drop! Not being a wine professional I do not have to worry about being consistent. I have no doubt drunk “better” wines, but that bottle really stood out.
I'd also like to know the details which made you hesitate to give the Spottswoode a perfect score. I'm studying for my WSET and that kind of detail would be good to understand
If you keep consistent uploads you will grow faster and faster for sure. The content is of quality and the editing and video is great. People will come if you keep putting out this level. Could you do a tasting of a range of wines from a single general area? Like tasting 5 wines from Rhone valley, Puglia or Sicily while explaining what different areas within that region can offer to a whine? I feel like this would help me learn to taste nuanced difference myself, and not just the difference pinot noir vs cab for example. And it would maybe help those of us with a bit more of a budget to find wines with good value if the areas are a bit underappreciated.
The wines that I remember as being truly stunning are Bollinger R.D 2002, Fatien Beaune 'Les Beaux Fougets' and the Quinta do Infantado 1991 Vintage. None of those are what I'd think of as 'perfect' (the Bollinger may be at 98 though) but are all well above 93.
The most special was the Petrus, vintage 1982. I'll remeber to the end of my life. And two very good hungarian product were Bock Capella cuvée '03 and an epic blaufrankisch Gere Minden 50 évben '14 which is contains botrytised berries. And im just on the beggining of wine world. 👀😁
Good wine can be put into cheaper and more environmentally friendly packaging like boxes, without sacrificing initial quality, if not aging potential which is less common
My fav. wine is a white one, it’s the Hospices de Bourgogne Rully. Why ? Because I think it’s the best value for money. At under €20 it’s a great, complex, white wine, that can actually be stored for many years ! I’ve had many ‘better’ wines that are way more expensive… this one keeps surprizing me.
The best in my memory was probably the 1982 Mouton Rothschild, had 2 bottles of it and they were both phenomenal. 1982 Haut Brion was also on par. 1999 JL Chave, 1997 Biondi Santi Riserva were probably on the same level. They say memory is unreliable but man these wines were good.
08:02 I got curious and would like to suggest ideas for videos: I would be very interested in a video about wine aging. How can I decide on how long a wine can (or even has to) rest longer in order to find the right timing to drink it? How can we differentiate between wines that should be opened "immediately" and wines that are made to mature in the bottle? And in addition: How to choose wines to put into your cellar to let them age? Danke und liebe Grüße aus dem Rheinland
RP’s 90-92 wines got a big boost on pricing but their quality is not equally reflected. I used to look forward to James Suckling’s scoring esp on Italian wines before he strikes out on his own. Now loads of 90+ wines came out of him, maybe it is a strategic move to market his 90+ wine bar. So his scoring is not informative unless it is a “low” score like 88-89.
The best wine would be Port wine, Krohn Colheita 1978. Just blissful. The best red wine is more difficult, but perhaps La Collina di Dioniso Roberto Sarotto Barolo Riserva 2006. A wine one could consume only smelling it for hours. Not a 100 point wine, but close.
My experience with expensive wines being limited to a number of 2nd growth Bordeaux and some higher end but not top Burgundies and some 2nd tier California and Washington State wines. My most memorable tasting of red wine was a bottle of Ridge Zinfandel (don't remember the vintage - mid 80's I believe?) This wine exploded on my palate with such intense mineral flavors that it literally made me jump out of my chair.
Best wine I ever tasted? I can't tell....what's best anyway? Most fond memory: Les Forts de Latour 1971 (drank in 1985), because this was my eyeopener wine....first "wow!".
Mr. Baum -- I absolutely love your programming! Thank you for all your efforts! By any chance have you had the 1966 Mouton Rothschild recently as it used to be a favorite of mine but I haven't had any in about thirty years now.
I'm a camera operator that travels and films with a myriad of subjects. I had a chance to follow a higher profile actor around the world for his own reality show. This person has a reputation for loving expensive red wines; also he seemed ok walking away from half finished bottles, or letting some crew get a pour of something special. This led me to splitting the last half of a 2012 Petrus with another colleague as well filming on the grounds of Sassicaia with an all included lunch/tasting at the end. The conditions of my job is probably the only way I would have had a chance to experience any of this, so I am grateful for the opportunity. While i was always attracted to aura of wine and the dusty cellar, these few sips were enough for me to want to continue my journey with wine and learn as much as I can; albeit with a mostly working class budget.
How long would you recommend to cellar the TetraPak?
Until the in-laws come for a visit.
Put the Tetra Pak wine in an empty bottle of a 100 points wine, make some popcorn and watch them saying that is the greatest wine ever.
Drink before the Best Before Date ...
DYA:not going to improve!
@@sgtenologo EXACTLY!
Thanks for calling out Luca Maroni. Taste is obviously subjective but I hate just about every, southern Italian sugarbomb which he rates at 99 points
right!! F*** you Luca!! 😅😅
Totally agree
I think he rates Tignanello about 60-70 points and the sugarbombs at 99. Absolutely delusional haha.
Our taste is not just subjective, but often very different what people really think it is tasty and what they tell it is tasty, especially wines, beers, or any type of fermented, or alcoholic drinks. Give a sip of beer or wine to a child and he/she reacts honestly.
Most important wine (to me) I’ve ever had was a 96 gaja Spurs - changed how I think about wine - since that day I stopped buying new world wines and started collecting Piedmontese - burgundy and Sangiovese wines. Other memorable wines for me Include Paolo Bea pagliaro, drouhin clos de mouches 2002, uccileria BdM 04 and Azelia San Rocco 2004
The best wine I’ve ever tasted was Chateau Lafite 1920 in the seventies. 100 points. This wine was what‘s become the definition of a great Bordeaux for me. More recently it was a Quinta do Cotto Grande Escolha 1985 from Portugal. The wine was 20 years old. Tastes like a great aged Bordeaux. I would rate this wine at 95 points and I bet that it would even be better today.
The best wine I've ever had...or rather, enjoyed the most, was the 1998 Tignanello. I drank it in 2006 and it was the first 'expensive' wine I'd ever tasted when I was starting to get to know wine. It was part of a birthday dinner for me, so that probably had to do as well. Enjoy your channel, cheers!
Thank you, Konstantin, for clarifying this a bit more. I think the main issue with the point systems is that they are subjective. However, if you can find a judge you trust, it can prove very helpful.
Again, relatively new to the wine world, but to date I think the best wine I've ever had was from a local winery here in Texas. It was a Heath Sparkling Blanc de Blanc and it was absolutely delicious!
This was amazing. I’d love to see a video on how to asses different flaws/undesirable characteristics such as volatile acidity, oxidation, heat damage, “over the hill” wines etc. -Chris
So far my fav is Vina Tondonia 2008, Rjoja. Drunk this year while visiting Spain. I liked everything in the wine, fine aromas, and smoothness on the palate. Also, it was a great value for the money u pay.
The topic of expertise is one that just keeps on amazing me. I must say that wine tasting is a skill that I quite do not understand yet, thus, your master class has allowed me to continue trusting more criteria than main stream. Gracias!
I love value wines like Vina Ardanza and Vina Tondonia - amazing experience for decent price!
The best wine I ever tasted was a Grand Cru Chablis--I think a Les Clos--from the mid 70s. I don't recall the exact vintage. It had the excellent balance and nose that you expect of any great wine, but what made it truly exceptional was its complexity. Its many flavors were layer upon layer. A truly great wine.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the consulting bomb! Your every comment helps me to get deeper into wines.
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My best wines were probably a Pera Manca 2013 and Cobos Malbec Machiori 2012. No idea about the score those wines received, but I really enjoyed them.
I’d be keen to see a video about your 100 points wines which didn’t get the 100 points by the critics. Also, maybe something around your best rated wines below $100 US.
Btw, I really like your videos, congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you, Konstantin. . Usefully informative.
So envious thinking of you enjoying the Spottswoode over dinner!
Oh yes!
Next content you should do 100 pts critics face off. For instance, 100pts by Robert Parker vs 100pts by James Sucking, etc
Great shirt 👊🏼
Love the content.
I like the way Mr. Baum pronounces estimation of wines he evaluates. Being just a bit restrained adds up to the credibility of the opinion.
Keep on presenting your valuations the way you do and you have got an ardent devotee in me.
Thank you a lot. Best regards from Poland.
Thank you!
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Not at all. The pleasure is mine!
Really expensive wines are mostly out of my budget range (though I did put a 2017 of the Spotswoode in my wish list, thanks to this video), and being a music collector also means I have to weigh one interest against the other, so I very rarely buy wines over around 28 Euros (I have three in my cellar that broke the 30 Euro mark. Yet to try them, though). With that in mind, the best wine I've probably had is a Cascina Castlet Passum Barbera d'Asti Superiore 2016, which sells for around 28.50 in Norway. I find it exceptional. Rich, balanced, velvety tannins. Has become my "house wine" in the sense that I keep a bottle around for special occasions.
The only wine that I ever rated 100 points was a 1982 Haut Brion tasted in 2018. Two years later I opened another bottle and it was maybe 94 points. Both bottles were bought at release in 1986 and in perfect conditions. As the old saying goes there are no great wines, only great bottles.
Question: Does this indicate a flaw or problem? Is that actually normal for bottles of the same wine to age so differently? I wouldn't expect two years to make such a difference.
@@d_dave7200 Bottles variation is normal especially for older wine. Sometimes two bottles opened at the same time would show different states of development.
I'm not even convinced that Luca Maroni is a real person. It might be just a rating bot. Here is how you can identify a typical Luca Maroni 98/99 wine
- Heavy Bottle
- Over ripe and jammy.
- Low acidity and/or tannins
- Oak (vanilla) bomb
I think he exists, do you ever go to a circus? He‘s the guy with the red nose.
Chateaux Margaux 1988. Sometimes it's useful having a french father in law 😆
Don't know if it is the best wine ever but i had my first "wow" moment with a 2010 Icario Vitaroccia Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano. So soft, gentle and i could taste the minerals. After asking they told me that these grapes grow on a specific hillside and the roots had to go through limestone to find water.
I thought the tetra pak might pull off the upset... LOL
Terrific video as always Konstantin, thank you for the great content! Would love to see a “wine in 10” video on mourvedre/mataro!
Best wine? Really hard question. Probably the most enjoyable was the Taylor's 40 year Tawny Port on my 40th birthday. It's a magical wine and well worth the price tag.
One of my favourites ever is also a Tawny but a 30yr one. Even more so than the 40 which I tasted before I bought the 30. It was a Vasques de Carvalho.
@@AShiga ill need to add that to my list. Cheers!
Love this channel, it's super fun, geeky but not snob. Thanks master Konstantin.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks to you for making this kind of comparison, it's very interesting!
For my part, the best memory I have for a wine is the Champagne Pommery Cuvée Louise 1999, drunk 2 years ago... Fortunately I have another one in my cellar
Thanks again Konstantin. Personally I take many points based reviews with a pinch of salt and focus mire on critics whose taste is near to my own. The only time I maybe think something is a sure thing is if the two most prominent critics agree on a wine. There is one mind that I will never forget; it was a 1966 Volnay which I had the privilege of drinking in 1999. It just blew me away. Sadly I don’t remember the grower or the vineyard.
Great video. Love the comparison and your honesty on both wines. Well done.
What would the Spottswoode need to do "better" to get those 3 points and get to a 100? Is is possible that in 10+ years time you'd give it a 100?
I had only the 2013 which was only 99pts, had it in 2019 but it felt the fruit was overpowering, it could have a bit more finesse/complexity. I had it side by side with a Dunn Howell Mountain 2013 and my personal opinion is the Dunn outscored it (Parker group only gave 96 to the Dunn).
It is quite difficult to put into words what would have pushed this wine to 100. I just did not see perfection in the wine ...
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Do you have a list of wines (or just a few from memory) you've tasted that did achieve 100pts in your opinion?
I've had a few Amarones and Barolos that were 100 points for me, but my best one was a Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino 2007 that I drank in 2014, most balanced wine I've experienced. Thanks for the content, I hope you get to 100K subs soon, well deserved!
Thank you!
I was first exposed to drinking wine in the early 80's when I lived in northern California. Both of my brothers-in-law were avid wine drinkers and collectors of wine. Most of the wines I drank were either from Napa or Sonoma. Many of them were very good and cultivated within me a deep appreciation of fine wines. I had a surgery around 2010 that removed polyps from my nasal cavity and reduced my sense of taste and smell by about 80 percent. I can still taste the difference between a good wine and a bad wine but the bad wine just doesn't bother me like it would have long ago because of the surgery. I usually just drink box wine these days. It is cheap and it just doesn't make sense to spend more money on better wine quality when I can only just barely discern that better quality. Still, the box wine isn't terrible and I can enjoy the memories of the delicious wines from my youth as I drink the plonk. I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos that echo my fond memories of the flavors and tasting experiences of those bygone days when I could more appreciate them. I hope your channel thrives for as long as you desire to continue it. Thanks.
Enjoyed the session. The Vivino rating was 4.6, more in line with yours. I don’t recall the specific name of the vineyard, but Amarone, as a rule, been my most favorite wine, that gives me the best combination of balance, including price in the equation.
Best wine I ever tasted was a Chateau d'Yquem from I believe 1986. Not one of the absolute top years but boy o boy, what a fantastic wine!
Great channel!! I recently came across your Vivino videos and it got me hooked!
Welcome aboard!
The best wine I ever had was a Vega Sicilia Unico 2006, I think it scored 98 Parker Points.
A friend bought it and we were around 6 people drinking it, so I only had one glass.
Afterwards we had a bottle of a wine that would probably score 88-90 points, so a very nice wine too, but the difference was mind boggling.
That is a difficult question. But, one of my all time favourites is tignanello. I love that wine
Yup - my cellar feels "empty " if there's not one aging to perfection!
@@barbarabird3827 Sadly I am not in a position to store wines for that long, nor purchase them to keep. I tend to drink most wines within 2 years (stored in the living room, out of the sun, no other option) and the more expensive wines such as tignanello, I buy when I feel like drinking one haha
my favourite white so far is the baron de ley tres vinas 2017 and just last thursday we had a dinner and wine tasing with portugese wines from Torre de frade.
Their 2008 grande reserva was great (in my humble opinion).
so that would be my favourite red right now :)
great video btw
I had a 1988 château cheval blanc that made me feel like I was a kid playing in a pile of autumn leafs. I’ll never forget it
Nice video…. Your sessions are very educational! I think scores can help, if you’re an everyday consumer or a wine geek, but they have different purposes. The everyday consumer can use a score to help them find something they can “trust” while the geek, if they find a professional who has a similar palate to theirs, can help them move into new varieties and varietals. In either case, I’ve had some stunning wines. A couple that stick out in my mind, 97 dead arm Shiraz from d’arenberg, 67 Yquem, 2010 Lopez De Heredia Vina Tondia Rose, 92 Peter Lauer Riesling Sekt, 90 Clos Sainte Hune, 2019 Scacciadiavoli Spumante Rose, 59 Solaria primitivo, 2017 Ben Rye Passito di Pantelleria, 2015 Corton-Charlemange Gran Cru. Not all “100” pointers, but each were memorable.
Very interesting and informative. Thanks :) I'd love to know which one you hold as the most priceworthy, i.e not the best. My favourite is the christmann idig spätburgunder GG
Hahaha, great interesting video. As a Sommelier, I take usually the points given by the "expert" carefully. I usually think that points are made for people that don't have an opinion.... therefore I tend to do not trust them in full!
1994 Sine Qua Non Queen of Spades, in 2001. I have a Spottswoode 2011 CS sleeping in the cellar. Thanks for the video, it was fun!
Excellent educational video! It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Canadian wine particularly from the Okanagan Valley and Oosoyoos
Canadians make wine?? lol i thought only maple syrup
I guess it is a 1995 château d'Yquem. I looked it up and it had 95 Parker points. But more important than the score was the occasion and the company, it was a 100 points night in my book. However these scores do help picking out a wine to buy. Thank you for this video, the system of scoring and your explanation is really interesting.
Schloss Johannisberg Riesling 'Grünlack' Spätlese. It blew me away with it's lightning acidity that countered the sweetness so impressively, together with an explosion of a thousand fruits in all facets in the mouth, so different even to other Spätlese I had to date. For me it was extremenly complex with a long lingering, delicious finish. It was not a 100 point Parker wine but a 100 point Suckling wine I believe.
I haven't seen you apply 100 points to anything yet. I would love to see what you consider to be 100 points. I thought you were going to give it to the Cristal you tried.
I should do a video on that ...
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine hopefully some rieslings in there! :)
loved it (as always). an idea for a future video - have 3 wines that are outstanding (95 to 100 by RP) but with a small different in mark and try to rank them blind.
I'm glad you explained the score system for wines. I often see the Robert Parker-scored wines in Costco and am tempted. What do you plan to eat with the Spottswoode? Thanks. Tony
A Rip Eye grilled over wood would be a great match.
I recently discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying your videos and learning a lot, your explanations are very informative. That said I’d love to see some more video on wines that are widely available and popular in the $15-30$ range. Keep up the great content!
Glad you like them!
Some wines I found “meditative”: le Macchiole Paleo 2013, Tedeschi Monte Olmi 2011, Allegrini Amarone 1997, Ornellaia 2000, la Spinetta Vursu Vignetta Campe 2000, Jerman Tunina 2015, Giacomo Bologna Braida bricco dell’Uccelone 2015, Uccelliera Brunello 2015, Marisa Cuomo Fiorduva 2015. That’s right, all Italian wines, I love them!
The best wine experience was when I got a Château Haut-Laroque 2010 served by your classmate and MW Janek Schumann. The wine was perfectly prepared to drink and to enjoy, perfect temperature and well-aerated.
Another awesome wine experience was when I was able to drink a Cos d’Estournel 2000 this year.
Two great wines. Say hi to Janek!
The funny thing is that if you pour the contents of the 100-point wine into the tetra pak and vice versa, and then open them as "unopened", many so called experts rate the cheap wine higher. I have witnessed that happen. Needless to say that the chap (not me) that pulled the trick was not very popular afterwards.
My best wine I ever tasted was a 2000 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere grand cru classé. I drank it this year and it was just sooo good. I payed 120euro’s for it, but I absolutely loved it.
I'm still a real newbie when it comes to wine. I'd consider myself a connoisseur when it comes to beer. I've got a long way to go before I could say I'm an expert on wine. With that qualification, the best wine I've had so far -- without a doubt -- is the 2021 Missing Spire Riesling from Left Foot Charley in Traverse City, Michigan. That's right, MICHIGAN. Tom Stevenson said that Brian Ulbrich, winemaker for left Foot Charley, is a white-wine genius. This, my first taste of his work, didn't disappoint after that high recommendation. I will be trying some more of Mr Ulbrich's work.
Best wines I have tried:
Red: Armand Rousseau Charmes Chambertin 2009
White: Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Meursault Premier cru Les Perrières 2017
Fortified: Gonzalez-Byass Cuatro Palmas.
Honorable mentions: Clos Apalta 2015, Mouton Rothschild 1980.
Do you think one of the problems with wine ratings is that it has biases of the taster personal preferences of certain styles? Ie. If Parker has a preference for big Napa cabs.
Wonder if it’s best to rate only based on quality (balance, complexity, length etc) no matter the wine making style. And then describe the style separately
I like your program and your honesty. Keep on the good work.
What wine merit your 100% score?
I should do a video on that ...
I like the chalanges you take on in your videos, maybe next time bring a concord to the workshop? that would be hilarious! cheers and greetings from Frankfurt!
Best wine, like, scored the best? Vik 2013, fantastic wine that really deserves the 95+ points it got from most critics. My personal favorite from these past few months is one called Random, made by Polkura, which I feel has been unfairly treated by local critics (scoring in the low 90s) when it's simply amazing, with a multi-layered complexity that few wines can even hope to achieve.
Still, aged Tawny ports I personally like the best, they're just so amazingly concentrated and complex. They play on a different league compared with dry reds.
Enjoyed a bottle of Beyerskloof Diesel Pinotage 2008 earlier this year. Definitely the most special wine I've had.
That certainly is a special one! Had it a few times when I worked in Stellenbosch. Did you try other Pinotage, and if so did you generally enjoy it, or not so much?
@@DeepPurpleIsTheBest Pinotage is a difficult grape to work with from what I've heard and is thus a hit or miss. From what I've tasted the wine farms situated towards the Paarl side of Stellenbosch and Paarl itself consistently produce the best Pinotage in South Africa in my opinion.
1997 sassicaia in a small village in the Italian alps together with steak fionrentina in 2016. The restaurant sold it below retail value for the new releases., so a double steal. 1982 pichon lalande got me into wine collection - and is the producer I lay down the most of.
Hi Konstantin, Gary and Malka here, Somms in Peru, we often watch your videos and love them, so great job. We were wondering if you could do a tasting of an important grape down here, Pais (Chile), Negra Criolla (Peru), Criolla Chica (Argentina). Can you get hold of wines made from this grape in Germany to compare countries? Keep up the great work...
Thank you!
In Brazil they make wine out of non-vitis vinifera grapes and the producers are allowed to call it table wine, whereas they classify vitis vinifera wines as "fine" regardless of quality or any other criteria. Table "wine" is sweet most of the times and the average consumer is accustomed to that taste so when they try real wine, they usually hate it because it's trocken LOL. That's been a huge setback for quality producers for many decades since they can't place their product at the price range they deserve even though Brazil has plenty of high quality producers. It makes me wanna kill myself when I serve good wine to some friends and they complain because it has no sugar.
Have not had many expensive wines, but had a glass of Yarra Yerring Dry Red No.1 2011 two years ago and the nose was enough for me. I've never smelled anything like it in a wine before, it was amazing. In fact the mouth feel and the taste was slightly disappointing afterwards, will never forget that experience. Now I have a benchmark for what a great wine should smell like at least. Love your show, wine critics lose their objectivity as soon as they become a commercial enterprise e.g. James Halliday (Australia - take off 3 - 4 points for his ratings if you want the realistic score). Much prefer objectivity of MW's as they are not rock starts but wine lovers.
£260 in UK!!!! Let me know where in America you can get under $200 and I order few boxes..
Great video!
You have to search for it. I bought it at Weinhalle in Germany.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine thanks...I am going to look for. Keep the great work.
Good video and great pick of the Spottswoode 2016
I loved this explanation of the points system. I do have a question if you ever think to review your ratings based of retrying vintages after they have aged in bottles?
‘86 Margaux was up there. I also rated the 2018 Leoville Barton 98-100 from barrel at winery tasted in August 2019. It has everything you would want from the wine and nothing overpowering or out of place. Cheers
I still have one bottle of the '86 Chateau Margaux but think that it was not as long lived as the rest of the vintage and may be now over the hill. I have to open it one of these days.
For me, the best wines have been 1986 Mouton, 1982 Mouton and 1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional Port. These I rated 100 points with no reservations. All these tastings took place in the 1990s.
My best rated wines.... as a wine noob it's so hard to decide but I would say 2018er Franz Haas Moscato Rosa Schweizer aus Alto Adige. A crowd pleaser but could satisfy plenty of enthusiasts! BTW, so informative is this video as always and vielen dank!! cheers!!!
Loving your videos more and more. Very educational. Living near Napa Valley and seeing all the wines you feature in your channel is great. If you have some time and this is a subject you want to touch at some point, would you do a video reviewing great wines to cellar for 3-5 years. I.e. grab a bargain now and drink a master piece in a few years kind of angle... Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
I recently had a Martinelli Zinfandel that was a 97 R.Parker that was amazing!
Best red:
Domaine Trapet; Chapelle-Chambertin 2009. Superbe wine, polish, delicate with some serious structure and power.
Best White:
Domaine Marcel Deiss; Altenberg de Bregheim 2007. Perfect balance between the sweetness and the acidity, like riding the perfect wave.
really enjoyed this video> it so happens I am currently trying to decide which vintage of Spottswoode to purchase, 2014 or 2017. Both the same price although everything I have read points to 2014 being one of the better years along with 2013 in the last 20 years or so. Thoughts or suggestions? Keep up the great work!
Pick the aged one!
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine I did just that, bought two.
Hmmm, the best wine I have ever tasted? That’s not something I really keep track of, but I remember drinking a Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella that, at the moment I was drinking it, seemed to offer everything I could ask for in a wine. I enjoyed every drop! Not being a wine professional I do not have to worry about being consistent. I have no doubt drunk “better” wines, but that bottle really stood out.
I'd also like to know the details which made you hesitate to give the Spottswoode a perfect score. I'm studying for my WSET and that kind of detail would be good to understand
It is quite difficult to put into words what would have pushed this wine to 100. I just did not see perfection in the wine ...
If you keep consistent uploads you will grow faster and faster for sure. The content is of quality and the editing and video is great. People will come if you keep putting out this level. Could you do a tasting of a range of wines from a single general area? Like tasting 5 wines from Rhone valley, Puglia or Sicily while explaining what different areas within that region can offer to a whine? I feel like this would help me learn to taste nuanced difference myself, and not just the difference pinot noir vs cab for example. And it would maybe help those of us with a bit more of a budget to find wines with good value if the areas are a bit underappreciated.
The wines that I remember as being truly stunning are Bollinger R.D 2002, Fatien Beaune 'Les Beaux Fougets' and the Quinta do Infantado 1991 Vintage.
None of those are what I'd think of as 'perfect' (the Bollinger may be at 98 though) but are all well above 93.
The most special was the Petrus, vintage 1982. I'll remeber to the end of my life.
And two very good hungarian product were Bock Capella cuvée '03 and an epic blaufrankisch Gere Minden 50 évben '14 which is contains botrytised berries.
And im just on the beggining of wine world. 👀😁
Good wine can be put into cheaper and more environmentally friendly packaging like boxes, without sacrificing initial quality, if not aging potential which is less common
My fav. wine is a white one, it’s the Hospices de Bourgogne Rully. Why ? Because I think it’s the best value for money. At under €20 it’s a great, complex, white wine, that can actually be stored for many years ! I’ve had many ‘better’ wines that are way more expensive… this one keeps surprizing me.
The best in my memory was probably the 1982 Mouton Rothschild, had 2 bottles of it and they were both phenomenal. 1982 Haut Brion was also on par. 1999 JL Chave, 1997 Biondi Santi Riserva were probably on the same level. They say memory is unreliable but man these wines were good.
Were these the tetra pack vintages? I didn’t think they gave the year of production. You’ve clearly had a few 😉
I would love to see you taste Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Pagliaro. One of the world's best but not a lot of recorded tastings of this wine.
08:02 I got curious and would like to suggest ideas for videos:
I would be very interested in a video about wine aging. How can I decide on how long a wine can (or even has to) rest longer in order to find the right timing to drink it?
How can we differentiate between wines that should be opened "immediately" and wines that are made to mature in the bottle?
And in addition: How to choose wines to put into your cellar to let them age?
Danke und liebe Grüße aus dem Rheinland
My fav was a 1988 Gaja Barbaresco. I have had other wines rated higher however, but there's something magical about the Gaja experience.
RP’s 90-92 wines got a big boost on pricing but their quality is not equally reflected. I used to look forward to James Suckling’s scoring esp on Italian wines before he strikes out on his own. Now loads of 90+ wines came out of him, maybe it is a strategic move to market his 90+ wine bar. So his scoring is not informative unless it is a “low” score like 88-89.
Great vid all ways!
Great video
So inspiring and knows your story. Million thanks you...
Thanks for watching!
That name "Rotwine" doesn't exactly instill confidence that you're purchasing a quaffable wine (lol).
I love your content! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for that!
May I ask, what characteristics show/enable a wine to age for an extended period?
El Pisón, Artadi, but the most interesting Quincha Corral, Mustiguillo, Bobal grape variety
The best wine would be Port wine, Krohn Colheita 1978. Just blissful. The best red wine is more difficult, but perhaps La Collina di Dioniso Roberto Sarotto Barolo Riserva 2006. A wine one could consume only smelling it for hours. Not a 100 point wine, but close.
My experience with expensive wines being limited to a number of 2nd growth Bordeaux and some higher end but not top Burgundies and some 2nd tier California and Washington State wines. My most memorable tasting of red wine was a bottle of Ridge Zinfandel (don't remember the vintage - mid 80's I believe?) This wine exploded on my palate with such intense mineral flavors that it literally made me jump out of my chair.
Best wine I ever tasted? I can't tell....what's best anyway? Most fond memory: Les Forts de Latour 1971 (drank in 1985), because this was my eyeopener wine....first "wow!".
Konstantin, we need a video on the Alsace region, we simply do...
Mr. Baum -- I absolutely love your programming! Thank you for all your efforts!
By any chance have you had the 1966 Mouton Rothschild recently as it used to be a favorite of mine but I haven't had any in about thirty years now.
No, I haven't had it.
Almaviva 2005 was one I really can remember thinking, Wow 👍🍷