By TastedandRated|2022-09-11T14:03:53+04:00September 11th, 2022|Wine Review|
The Paraschos family started making wine in the late 1990s when father Evangelos was first inspired by the wines of Stanko Radikon and Josko Gravner. The born Greek from Thessaloniki first came to the region in the late 1980s where he later met his future wife and partner in Gorizia. The family’s vineyards in the small village of San Floriano [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-28T13:03:17+04:00December 28th, 2019|Wine Review|
Intellego started off in 2009 by Jurgen Gouws, a young winemaker from the #Swartland region of #SouthAfrica. Jurgen used to work for Craig Hawkins, the man behind El Bandito wines, who first taught him about making fresher wines. Gouws in order to achieve this style has prefers to work with bush vines, and a strict adherence to organic farming without [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-18T20:54:08+04:00December 18th, 2019|Retail Dubai|
Cava “Brut Nature”_L’Atzar We at #Tasted&Rated, have been traveling for more than 15 years to Barracuda in search of #wines with excellent prices for an outstanding quality, so we have decided to share our selection with all our readers. Every Wednesday we will post one wine that we believe will shock you for price and quality, making your trip worthwhile [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-18T20:48:28+04:00December 18th, 2019|Wine Review|
Nero D’Avola, Tenuta Fenice We at #Tasted&Rated, have been traveling for more than 15 years to Barracuda in search of #wines with excellent prices for an outstanding quality, so we have decided to share our selection with all our readers. Every Wednesday we will post one wine that we believe will shock you for price and quality, making your trip [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-18T20:26:58+04:00December 18th, 2019|Retail Dubai|
Liberator “Francophile” Chenin Blanc, 2016.We at #Tasted&Rated, have been traveling for more than 15 years to Barracuda in search of #wines with excellent prices for an outstanding quality, so we have decided to share our selection with all our readers. Every Wednesday we will post one wine that we believe will shock you for price and quality, making your trip [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-11T21:22:15+04:00December 12th, 2019|Wine Review|
Outstanding #winetasting @coyadubai by @african_eastern and #exportmanager par #chateaurauzansegla Andrean Gornard. The wines where @chateaurauzansegla #2005 #2008 & #2011: tree completely different vintages, with the ‘05 which was completely opened and ready to drink. Elegant with lots of secondary aromas of pencil, cedar, tobacco leaves. The ‘08 was much more floreal, fruitier and underbrush notes of mushrooms. While the ‘11 [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-12-08T23:25:25+04:00December 9th, 2019|Events|
I would have probably been one of the first sommelier here in the UAE, and if any one would have told me that one day I would witness the First Professional UAE Sommeliers Awards I would probably thoughts it was a joke, yet it did happen on November 2nd 2019, in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. It did happen because people [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-09-25T00:56:50+04:00September 17th, 2019|Wine Review|
Back in April I had the opportunity to meet here in Dubai, Helena Legeder daughter of the visionary Alois, a man which in the middle of 70's started operating the estate, focusing on quality and innovative methods in the vineyard and cellar. To be honest giving the fact that I knew very well the Estate and biodynamic approach to the [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-07-18T11:46:48+04:00July 17th, 2019|Events|
The 2008 La Grande Année has finally arrived in Dubai on the 3rd of July 2019 and presented to us in 3 format: Bottle 2008, degorged in November 2018. The magnum 2008, degorged in June 2018 and the Jeroboams 2008 degorged in November 2018. The first thing we notice is the changing in the label, more slick, premium and with [...]
By TastedandRated|2019-07-14T11:37:43+04:00July 14th, 2019|Wine Review|
Brought this bottle of Libiamo “Field Blend” 2017 from my recent trip to #newzealand, after I discovered directly from the producer @jamesmillton who is an #artisanwinegrower, who in 1984, together with his wife Annie planted the very first #biodynamic #wineestate in the #southernhemisphere. The Milltons are endlessly committed to improvement, and without question should be credited as being one of [...]
