1/16/2024 0 Comments Raw power shiraz2020 Chateau Meyney, Saint-Estephe – This wine scares me but it may eventually come around.2021 Hajdu Proprietary Red, Napa Valley, CA – Big and bold wine, but balanced.2020 Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley, Special Reserve – Great wine!.2020 Chateau Fayat, Pomerol – Stunning wine! Enough said.The wine notes follow below – the explanation of my “scores” can be found here and the explanation for QPR scores can be found here: There are just too many good wines out there and that is what we should be focused on! The correct way to classify this list is we have 19 more wines available to us and in the end, as I have stated many times now, I cannot buy all the WINNER wines even if I wanted to. I can always look at these kinds of lists and say there are only 19 wines I would want to buy from this entire list, but that would be a defeatist attitude. Overall another nice list of QPR WINNERS. 2019 was not bad, but not this good! Roundup Balanced, tart, and refreshing, and for the price! WOW! The 2020 Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley is a hit as always, on even vintages. Overall, I was shocked by how good the 2021 Baron Herzog Pinot Grigio and Gewurztraminer were. I tasted these wines at the KFWE in Los Angeles and also some were sent to my home to taste. The rose and Pinot Blanc were lovely wines. Elk eventually showed up, but either way, it was great hanging out with Jonathan Hajdu and seeing Elk, eventually! The wines that I tasted were all balanced, refreshing, and enjoyable. Looking forward! Hajdu WinesĪ couple of weeks ago, I was at Covenant Winery to taste the Hajdu wines with my friend Elk. The Emunah is nice, not as balanced as in the past, but a solid next play. I liked the rose, it is refreshing and puts a smile on my face. My dear friend Josh Rynderman continues to pump out great wines. Hopefully, as he scales up production, the cool and refreshing wines will continue to roll! His website is up and running – Invei WInes. Some are hits and some are close but either way, he continues to impress. Michael Kaye continues to strive to make wines that are unique while also interesting. The Fayat is an AWESOME WINNER, while the Meyney may come around, otherwise, it is still a solid wine. However, we missed the 2020 Chateau Fayat and the 2020 Chateau Meyney. The 2021 vintage was tough in Australia and these wines show Richie’s drive and passion! Looking forward to even more stuff!! Missed Bordeaux Winesīetween my Royal Wine tasting and the rest of the wines that Avi and I tasted, we covered most of the 2020 vintage in Paris, in Nov 2022. I thought the two Shiraz, imported by, were solid entries into the Kosher US market. I loved discovering the Aziza in Australia, some 13 years ago! I missed Richie that day, but I made up for that many times afterward. My interest and love for all things Harkham is well known. A shockingly large number of EVEN scores, which could have snuck into POOR/BAD, and only 8 POOR/BAD. We have 19 WINNER scores and a few GOOD/GREAT scores. Still, many of these notes are from KFWE in Los Angeles, so it does represent a proper distribution, IMHO. or POOR/BAD QPR scores! This is not because things are getting better as much as I am selectively picking wines to taste recently. This post differs though, this is the first time I have seen so few N.A. Thankfully, no matter how much garbage and pain I subject myself to, we are still blessed with quite a few wonderful QPR wines out there. It has been four months since my last QPR (Quality to Price Ratio) post and many people have been emailing me about some unique wines I have tasted and some lovely wines that are worth writing about. So, without further ado, the 62 wines I tasted over the past few months. Either the price or the quality pushed them to this level. This post has 19! Also, we have a shockingly high number/percentage of EVEN QPR score wines, 26 to be exact. First off, this is not the largest roundup I have written – there is a larger one from October 2021.
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