Wine 2003

German most famous and oldest viticulture is the „Steilhange“, steep slopes along the Mosella river. No wonder that Weingut Milz can praise such a long winemaking tradition and history. Since 1520, the Milz family has been known as great winemakers in Trittenheim, a wine village in the well-known Moselschleife. Parts of the original 1680 wine cellar are today still visible....

Givry is one of five wine producing villages located in the Côte Chalonnaise region of Burgundy. It is one of the larger wine producing areas with a total of 283 hectares (699 acres) planted mostly to the Pinot Noir grape. A scant 10 percent of Chardonnay is planted, but very rare to find outside the local bistros. The red wines are considered lighter and less tannic, but...

The Grand Cru parcel Roseneck is situated in the heart of Rüdesheimer Berg in Rheingau. The soil of the totally south-facing hillside is quarzite rocks. Riesling is one of the noble grape varieties and is capable of producing a variety of extraordinary white wine styles, and is most known for the sweeter-style German wine it produces. With the 2003 Riesling Rüdesheim Berg...

In the 1950s, the Clos des Menuts only covered one hectare of vineyards. Today it extends to over 25 hectares, not far from the historic town of Saint Emilion and located mainly in the western part of the municipality. This wine is a blend of 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. The high proportion of Merlot is a consequence of the iron-containing...

The estate is located in the Saint-Émilion area and is classified as Grand Cru Classé. It stretches over 18 hectares of contiguous vineyards on the southern side of the Côte area. It is planted exclusively with Merlot (60%) and Cabernet Franc (40%) since, as often happened in Saint-Émilion, Cabernet Sauvignon is no longer used in the blend. Fonplegade is one of the oldest...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Graves, Pessac Leognan in Médoc. Graves (from French: gravelly land) is an important subregion of the Bordeaux wine region. Graves is situated on the left bank of the Garonne river, in the upstream part of the region, southeast of the city Bordeaux. The name Graves derives from ist intensely gravelly soil. The soil is the...

Chateau Lafon Rochet in St. Estephe dates back to the middle of the 17th century. The estate was founded In 1650. While many Bordeaux vineyards were confiscated during the French Revolution, that did not happen to Lafon Rochet. The Left Bank estate remained the property of the same family for more than two centuries. In 1959 the Tesseron family purchased the estate. The 45...

Around 1870, Ferruccio Biondi-Santi began to set out in his vineyards a clone of the Sangiovese variety known as Brunello. Brunello began to be talked about after 1880. The first great vintage, officially, was the 1888 Brunello, of which five bottles still exist. With the 2003 Brunello di Montalcino Campogiovanni , comes a personal present meant for a person who is very...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux. Saint-Émilion is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of France, where it is situated in the Libourne subregion on the right bank of the Dordogne. The vineyards of the 1th Grand Cru Classé are located on the plateau near the town Saint Emilion and on...

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was originally part of a single estate with Château Beausejour-Duffau. In 1869 the vineyards were split up between the owner's two children and they have been owned and run separately ever since. Beau-Séjour Bécot's 16,5 hectares of 1st Grand Cru Classé vineyards are superbly sited on a limestone plateau in the north-west part of the appellation....

Arnaud III de Pontac, a leading nobleman and the first president of the regional parliament- who insisted that the red wine from his family's estate, located in Pessac, was an unique, that didn't had sold to négociants, who then blended it with other wines. Starting in 1660, he demanded a premium price for a wine with a name that no one beyond Bordeaux knew- "Haut- Brion",...