Archive for the ‘Other Countries’ Category
BAROLO & BARBARESCO – Study in Scarlet
Posted by Frank Ward on December 17, 2017
Posted in Italy, Other Countries | Tagged: Azlia, Castello di Verduno, elio altare, Elio Crasso, Guiseppe Marscarello, italy, Justerini & Brooks, Mario Marengo, Nebbiolo grape, piedmont, Roberto Voerzio, Scarzello | Leave a Comment »
A retrospective review of Eating Out in Stockholm
Posted by Frank Ward on July 14, 2017
Posted in Gastronomy, Other Countries | Tagged: Öhman's Mat & Vin, Bengt Frithiofson, Bertil Hökby, Eating out in Stockholm, Madame Prunier, Nils-Bertil Philipson, Operakällaren, Restauranger & Storkök, Riche, Roland Möllerfors, Stallmästargarden, Svensson & Butler, Sweden, Tore Wretman | Leave a Comment »
Austria Revisited
Posted by Frank Ward on February 27, 2017
Posted in Other Countries, Tasting notes | Tagged: Austrian wines, Brundlmayer, Domane Wachau, Grüner Veltliner, Nikolaihof Wachau, Pichler-Krutzler, Riesling, Schloss Gobelsburg | Leave a Comment »
A Few Aussie Wines
Posted by Frank Ward on January 30, 2017
Posted in Other Countries | Tagged: Australia | Leave a Comment »
Major Tasting of 37 Top Australian Chardonnays
Posted by Frank Ward on October 19, 2016
Posted in Other Countries | Tagged: Australia, Chardonnay, Len Evans, Masters of Wine | Leave a Comment »
A Taste of Vienna – Twenty Five Years after
Posted by Frank Ward on February 28, 2016
February 2016. A quarter-century ago, in 1990, I visited the Wieninger winery in Vienna and tasted some wines. I was then the wine correspondent of “The European”.Twenty-five vintages later, in late 2015, I went back to taste some more. The wines were good all those years ago; now they’re not only better but there are a lot more of them. The winery is still run by Fritz Wieninger. When I first met him he had 10.5 hectares of vines.[….]
Posted in Other Countries, Tasting notes | Tagged: Austria, Fritz Wieninger, Grüner Veltliner, The European, Vienna, Wiener Gemischter Satz | Leave a Comment »
TOP CZECH COMPOSER CONDUCTS ME TO MORAVIAN WINE-MAKER
Posted by Frank Ward on February 9, 2016
February 2016. Pavel Zemek Novak (may his tribe increase), learning that I was about to visit the Czech Republic, agreed to show me around his native city of Brno – his country’s second city – and to drive me to one of the best wine estates in the nearby Moravia region. To put you in the picture, Pavel has been described as one of the most individual and distinctive composers of his generation. He has written a large body of symphonic , choral, chamber and orchestral works and teaches music in his native city, at the Brno Conservatoire. [….]
Posted in Other Countries, Tasting notes | Tagged: Brno, czech republic, Lubos oulehla, Moravia, Muller-Thurgau, Pavel Zemek Novak, Regina Coeli, William Howard | Leave a Comment »