Chateau LeoVille Poyferre 2001

This is a bottle of RP90 red wine, I robbed it from Man Ip when I needed it for entertaining one of my good friends From Germany on 9 July. We took a grouper, Beef light fried with Chinese fresh Garlic, green ginger and Century egg... a nice favour that goes with this red wine... taste a bit sweet in the beginning, oak favour was initially strong with promptly went away after 15 minutes. mellow, perfume of blended with earth, pear and lead... wonderful after 40 minutes... great for its value with HKD$920.00! Probably I was with good friend and good mood so I rated this bottle with 91 points.

HK Snob 

Nokla, Rolexa and Mouton

I had received ads from some of the wine dealer that there is Lafife and Mouton selling at a price of HKD$200... roughly. Well a bottle of Mouton ot Lafife is minim a few thousand dollars!. This reminds me that there was Watch called " Rolexa" hand phone called "Nokla" Now we have Mouton and Lafitte.
But these are not the same stuff as the Chateau Lafite Rothschild, and Chateau Mouton, this is different bottles, but I will try to see if there is surprises! Sometimes It may have some outstanding performnce with limited cost of investment... Without trying, We should not label is..

HK Snob

Cartoon Magazine for Wine "Les Gouttes De Dieu"

About 3 year ago, there was Cartoon Magazine Called " Les Gouttes De Dieu"
means the drops from the God... It is about a man who has been pursuing the ten Bottles of the Gods' wine...
A very ineresting and knowledgeable content about wine... It is now releaseing the issue 22 now.. I had collected only up to ten... If you are trying to be wine crtitic, we should have the whole collections of all the issues.

HK Snob

Vins

This is a good value for money Bottle I bought from Vins at Tsuen Wan Tsuen Fung 1205.
A Chateau Duhart-Millon with RP rating of 94 Points. I paid only about HKD$600.00. This is the most valuable purchae I made in Q1 2011.
Vins is the shop where most of my wine are purchased. They are reliable and price is very reasonable.

 HK Snob

Petrvs 2006 RP93+

Well, this is a Petrvs, many wine experts said that at least once in your life have to taste this great bottle of Petrvs!
An affordable price at the right timing.... Please take one box and keep it for the next 2 decades consumption...Invite me for the wine tasting...I will sure be there and cancel the date from the women...On the other hand, Petrvs price will appreciate year after year! Probably better  than your white elephant stock in this Oriental Pearl.

Life is short and wine is longer than mine... Hmmm...can sleep in the bottle for 30 years! What kind of Pomerol magic Petrvs is playing, put a lot of Solium Phosphate in it... man!!

HK Drinking Snob

Tsing Tao Beer Factory

The Tsing Tao beer was orginally made by the German in the Port of Tsing Tao (Qing Dao) when German occupied QingDao in 1899.

Now when we go to Qing Dao, we can go to the first orginal Beer brewery established in 1903 for the tasting of the fresh Tsing Tao beer made with mineral water from Lu Shan on that so call Beer Street!

HK Snob

The 2004 Numanthia

Wine Advocate # 169 Feb 2007 98



Any aspiring collectors should add a case of this to their stash. The 2004 Numanthia comes from a different terroir with a different clone of Tinta de Toro. The vines for this cuvee range from 70-100 years of age with tiny yields of 1 ton of fruit per acre. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in barrel followed by 19 months in new French oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. The wine is a glass-coating opaque purple with a killer nose of mineral, pencil lead, wild blueberry, and blackberry liqueur that roars from the glass. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, dense, and already beginning to show complexity within its layers of spicy black fruits. There is immense power, well-concealed ripe tannin, and the well-delineated finish lasts for over one minute. This is a sensational effort which in a perfect world should be cellared for a decade and enjoyed over the following 25+ years. However, the elderly among us should not feel guilty about opening a bottle now.

(HK retail List Price: $990)


HK Snob

Montrose, probably the best buy Fench Wine in HK!

What do ou think an Parker RP100 point wine costs how much!? years ago I had consumped Lafite 1986, Latour 1996, Lacas 1982, Mouton 2000, these are 99+-100 point wine... that was expensive from HKD$5,000 to HKD$10,000 in 2007.

Well, now  this is Montrose 2003. selling at HKD$2,100.00 Only, that had to have certain patience as we have waited for more than 2 months for the wine to come Hong Kong.

I think this is a good investment of buying such great bottle at this price , if you can find it...

This is some of the recent reviews:
Reviews of 2003 Montrose Bordeaux Blend
Mike Supple, JJ Buckley
February 2007

An intensely dark, opulent black core with a bold garnet rim. Rich, heavy and spicy on the nose. Dark plum and cassis aromas push through, followed by cooler undertones of blueberry, blackberry and sweet red raspberry. Surrounding the intense fruit are pervasive aromas of mushroomy earth, wet stone, sweet tobacco and a hint of green bell pepper, followed by lingering spicy aromas of black pepper, cedar, vanilla and cinnamon. In the mouth this wine is huge. The tannic acid is strong from the front of the mouth all the way through the finish. Well integrated and balanced for such a young wine, the power of the tannic structure just keeps building on the mid-palate. Cassis, blackberry and black plum push through the thick tannins, followed by persistent vanilla and charred oak. This is an intense wine that deserves to be laid down for several years. Intense, yet balanced and distinguished with a promise of amazing future potential.

100 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

May 2007

From Robert Parker's Hedonist's Gazette, May 2007. Please note, although scored 100 points by Robert Parker himself, this is NOT an official score. It was given at an informal tasting of 13 different 2003 Bordeaux wines he participated in at the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh, PA. "The unbelievable 2003 Montrose (rated 100) and Cos d’Estournel (rated 99) are two of the greatest St.-Estèphes I have ever tasted. Montrose is the more backward, and the Cos is more precocious, but both wines will benefit from 8-10 years of cellaring, and should last for 30-40 years."

What do you think? after 8 year, let's make a review on this wine after tasting!

HK Snob

Chateau Palmer

Palmer has been quite a surprising Chateau and it is very much under valued for some of its top wine...
Remember 4 years ago, Lisboa Hotel's restaurant cellar had about 150 bottle of 1961 Palmer. Thta might be the world largest collection of 1961 Chauteau Palmer!

Some of the wine has to be Re-corked, The owner of the restaurant invited Palmer technical staff to come to Macao to perform the recork works!

They brough their equipment, and a team of two wine experts to perform the recork: a process of removal of the old and spoiled cork with certain equipment, and taste see if the wine are still in their live condition. Top up with other bottle for the loss due to leakage after year of storage. The total Charges for such record took Mr. Stephen Ho over 1 million dollars.

At that time 1961 Palmer was valued about HKD$50,000 a bottle, The wine were about 8 Millions!

We had removed all taxation on imported wine from 80% to 0% 2008. Hence we can really enjoy the good wine at a reasonable prices now!

Attached is a wine dealer price for Chateau Palmer! A RP99 Palmer is now HKD25,000! A Real good price for a three hours wine tasting

Feverip

A glass of wine

To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine... And those who don't.
As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, Scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, At the end of the year we would have absorbed More than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) - bacteria Found in feces.

In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop..

However, We do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) Because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember:Water = Poop
Wine = Health.

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, Than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service!