Recent content by Tvrtko Cernos

The 1996 Vigneto Sgarzon was, and remains, the best Foradori I've ever tasted. (Unless I'm mistaken, Elisabetta's ex-husband still had a hand in that one). Granato, while often very good, for some reason never seems to really move me, an impression yet again confirmed by a bottle of the 2000 I...

Montgueux is actually nearly 100 km further south.

Ledru is fantastic, and that applies across the range. Personal favourites: 1999 Brut Nature and 2004 Goulte' (the latter one of the best BdN I've had and, to my palate, better than Egly's). Gosset-Brabant are very good, but I don't particularly seek out their wines, probably because I already...

Just had this the other day. Brilliant wine, quite solidly structured. All the more so as temperatures in Aubry's vineyards got up to 45 degrees Celsius that year. Other vintages seem to be ageing quite well (had a splendid - and still very youthful - '99 recently).

You make it sound like a tripod.

I am very partial to sparkling wine with sushi. Depending on the type of sushi and my mood, it will either be something pure and "linear" from Cramant or Le Mesnil (such as Lilbert's Perle, a Diebolt-Vallois vintage, or Pierre Peters' Extra Brut) or something a little more technicolour (Jean...

Interesting. I have never really found Roally lacking in the acid department (and that sample includes a number of '05 bottles). They are a little on the rich side, but I feel there's a great balance in there that a bit of age might help to coax out into the open.

Try an Umathum Ried Hallebuehl, or even their basic Zweigelt bottling, with a little age on it. Very little overt fruit, considerable structure and complexity.

It's a fantastic wine. Probably my favourite from the Baudry stable. The 2004 is just great.

Wow, esoteric stuff. Zlatan Plavac is made by Hvar-based Zlatan Plenkovic. It's his entry-level bottling. Over the last ten or so vintages, this wine has ranged from abysmal (entirely out of balance, soaring alcohol levels unsupported by structure) to moderately interesting at best. His top...

Have you had D'Angelo's Vigna Caselle, Cliff? Not sure what it sells for over in the US, but here it's eminently affordable and my gold standard for traditional Aglianico del Vulture.

Down to a t. Brilliant.

Reminds me I still have a bottle of the '93 Muraglie buried somewhere, along with an '83 Chambave. I wonder how the Muraglie bottling is holding up.

Brad, Frank Cornelissen is another grower in the general neigbourhood (Etna) who uses terracotta amphorae, as far as I remember.

Let us assume for a moment that this is really true in practical terms, and not just a scientific hypothesis. All languages can express what all other languages say. But the real question here is : how? Sometimes a gap "created" in the target language by a single phrase in the original language...