Your Personal Best Wines of 2011

Not the highest scores, but the wines you you found most enjoyable/interesting in the last year. Another site I frequent does this and I didn’t see a thread here, but I always enjoy reviewing my notes over the previous year to compile a list like this, if only because it makes me feel so fortunate to have tasted a bunch of good wine! Hope this isn’t a duplication of a thread I missed seeing…

I’ve been lucky enough to taste a few notable bottles.

1955 and 1963 Taylors Port both excellent

Taylors Scion Port (c. 1855)

1980 Diamond Creek (all 3 single vineyards)

1986 Guigal Cote Rotie (all 3 ‘La-Las’ but especially the La Turque)

1976 Hugel Gewurtraminer Vendage Tardives Selections des Grains Nobles, ‘Sélectionneé par Jean Hugel’ Cask 20 (who says German wines have the longest names?)

1988 Lynch Bages and Pichon Baron

1961 Gruaud Larose

1961 Grand Puy Lacoste

1985 and 1986 Chave Hermitage

1961 Ch. Latour (probably my wine of the year!)

1977 Grange Hermitage

1998 Vieux Telegraphe

1970 Montrose (much better than the 1970 Cheval Blanc we also had)

1986 Mouton

1978 Quinta do Noval Nacional

1982 Cheval Blanc

1963 Dow Port