SVIJET U ČAŠI & SUHI U ČAŠI & WINE STARS
BUYER’S GUIDE
APRIL 2017
IN THE WINE THERE IS SUN, SOIL, VINE AND SWEAT, AUTHENTICITY AND BUSINESS, JOY AND PAIN, ANXIETY AND EBRIETY
SAMPLES ARE FROM THE MARKET
♣♣♣♣♣♣ –Champion – 99 – 100 (or: 19,9 – 20 / 4,9 – 5,0) pts = Brilliant! Impressive! Unique!
♣♣♣♣♣ –Great gold medal – 95 – 98 (19,5 – 19,8 / 4,5 – 4,8) = Excellent, with character, elegant, classic great wine.
♣♣♣♣ –Gold medal – 90 – 94 (18,6 – 19,4 / 4,0 – 4,4) = outstanding, multilayered, with high style and a big personality.
♣♣♣ –Silver medal – 85 – 89 (17,5 – 18,5 / 3,0 – 3,9) = very good and typical, complex, convincing, with chances to develop even more, for the exigent consumer.
♣♣ 80 – 84 (15,5 – 17,4 / 2,1 – 2,9) = variety recognisable, in a certain determinate style, solid, not exciting.
♣ 71 – 79 (11,0 – 15,4 / 1,1 – 2,0) = average, ordinary, with no virtues and no significant to strong flaws, still acceptable for everyday use.
under 71 ( 11,0 / 1,0) = low-average, best to avoid.
⇑- drink • ⇗ –drink or hold • ⇒ –hold • – recommended to drink with food.
Samples are taken from sources with adequate wine storage and expert staff, so inappropriate storage effects should be excluded. If a classic scent or taste is found on the cap (TCA), the sample is retasted from another bottle. A sample is immediately rejected if at least two thirds of the jury decides so. For a quality/price comparison the wine needs at least 85 points out of 100, or 17.5 points from 20, or 3 on a scale to 5.
Croatian Highlands
♣ ♣ ♣ (♣) (L-XL) ŠEMBER white brut – ŠEMBER
PLEŠIVICA-OKIĆ
■ VINEYARD: slope • variety: Chardonnay 50 %, Pinot Blanc 40 % and Plavec Žuti 10 %, 2014 harvest
■ CELLAR: on yeasts: 24 months
■ SPARKLING, method: classic (champenoise, fermentation in bottle)
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: quality natural sparkling with controlled geographic origin • brut • 12,5 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ • bottle: normal – fits the wine • model, type: champagne • CAP: cork
■ DESIGN: decent, neat – recognisable from afar
Wine is complex, substantial, spruced up, serious, harmonious, fresh and with character. Looks lively, brighter straw yellow, with joyful permanent pearling on fine, tiny numerous bubbles. On the nose points to minerality, fruitiness (fruit: domestic/green; white/pit), taste of yeasts/bread – touch. Very lively in the mouth, salty, with high quality trailing acids. In body and structure very good, with a fresh and quite long ending.
■ SERVING larger glass (champagne) • 10°C
Istria and Kvarner
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ (L-XL) MALVAZIJA RUSTICA 2011 – COSSETTO
WESTERN ISTRIA
■ VINEYARD: variety: Istrian Malvazija
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: quality with controlled geographic origin • dry • 15 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ
Wine is different, complex, substantial, rich, meaty, ripe, very warm, very lively. Robust and somewhat rustic. Goes well with stronger food, but also with meditation. Looks lively, clear, colour of old gold. Moderately strong no the nose, developed, points to fruitiness (fruit: domestic; white; southern – dried/fig – nutty), then floral – touch, note of maceration (with fermentation), spices, presented with measure – very well blended, sense of yeasts, bread, butter. Rounded in the mouth, creamy, salty, with quality trailing acids. Potent in body & structure, quite long warming ending.
■ SERVING ⇗ (baked poultry, veal, pork, meat under the bell…) • uncork bottle an hour before serving • larger glass (Burgundy) • 15-16°C
♣ ♣ ♣ (M) CHARDONNAY 2016 – DEKLIĆ
ISTRIA-VIŽINADA
■ VINEYARD: variety: Chardonnay
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: superior with controlled geographic origin • dry • 13,5 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ
Wine is fresh, with good aroma, points to fruitiness, flowers, with a nuance of grassy, full bodied.
■ SERVING: medium large glass • 10-12°C
Slavonia & Danube area
♣ ♣ ♣ (S-M) TRAMINAC 2016 quality – ILOK CELLARS
SRIJEM-ILOK
■ VINEYARD: variety: Traminac
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: quality with controlled geographic origin • dry • 12,5 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ • bottle: normal
Wine is fresh, harmonious, soft, with quite rich fruit-flower scent with rose petals and banana.
■ SERVING: ⇑ • 10°C
♣ ♣ ♣ (M) GRAŠEVINA 2015 Turković – KUTJEVO
KUTJEVO
■ VINEYARD: slope • variety: Graševina
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: superior with controlled geographic origin • dry • 13,5 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ • bottle: normal • model, type: Bordeaux
■ DESIGN: neat
Wine is full, ripe, juicy, complex. Almonds, nut and white fruit.
■ SERVING: ⇑ (goes well with fish: gilt, catfish…) • 10-12°C
♣ ♣ (S) GRAŠEVINA 2016 quality – ILOK CELLARS
SRIJEM-ILOK
■ VINEYARD: variety: Graševina
■ LABEL&ALCOHOL: quality with controlled geographic origin • 12 %
■ BOTTLED IN: 0,75 ℓ
Wine is fresh, drinkable, some fruit and grass notes on the nose and nuance of minerality, light body, seems undefined.
■ SERVING: ⇑ • 8-10°C
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