Our wines this week-end.

Due to a combination of few guests and some happy feeling ... a few bottles of good wine got popped open!!! Given the circumstances I could not really write down much details, btu here is my impressions from the various wines starting from the left

• Quinta de Passadouro 1995 (Portugal). Arg! This bottled was gone! I still have two and I hope it is just a case of bad bottle .... let's hope so. It was a lovely wine last time we opened one. NA/100
  
• Henri Goutorbe Champagne Brut (France). Lovely. Flowery and lightly bubbly. Very elegant with notes of brioche. On the classic side. 78/100
• E&E Black Pepper Shiraz 1998 (Asutralia). Superb example of a powerful yet refines Aussie wine. There is fruit, subtle new oak, pepper. Warm and still very young. I suggest to keep it resting longer! 92/100
• Clerico Arte 2004 (Italy). A good nebbiolo, very alcoholic and extremely dry. Nose and taste rather fruity and with some oak. Pepper and liquorice. Good complexity. Extremely long aftertaste but somewhat bitter, very warm and extremely dry. Need fatty food next to it. A bit pricey also. 87/100
• Firriato Camelot 2000 (Italy). Definitively I can feel the 15% alcohol in this one. It reminds me a lot of a LBV port. Good balance between fruit, oak and alcohol. Good aftertaste ... if they only started with a lower alcohol level ... another wine to let rest a bit longer to get a better grip on structure. 85/100

Of course, we did not drink only ... we had some nice food like lemon meatball, penne with boar and pork stuffed with apples and cheese. But this will be posted during the week. I did not have time to check photos and translate recipes today ... or better write them !