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14 november komt met rasse schreden dichterbij.

Vindt u het erg om te lezen wat er zoal op tafel komt?

Zo ja onmiddellijk wegklikken:D

Dalla Valle Maya 1991, 99 PP, 93,5 CT plus een piraat

Sreaming Eagle 1997, 100 PP, 97,8 CT

Harlan 2004, 98 PP, 96,5 CT

Shafer Hillside 2002, 100 PP, 96,2 CT plus een piraat

Shafer Hillside 1997, 99 PP, 95,7 CT

, Abreu 1997, 100 PP, 96,8 CT

Caymus Special 1991, NR, 92,4 CT

Pahlmeyer Red 1997, 98 PP, 93,8 CT

Dominus 1994, 99 PP, 94,6 CT

Valandraud 2005, 95 PP, NR

Pavie 2000, 100 PP, 95,8 CT

Montrose 2003, 97+ PP, 93,8 CT plus een piraat

, Lafite 1982, 97+ PP 94,0 CT

Palmer 1983, 97 PP, 93,3 CT t plus een piraat

Margaux 1982, 98 PP, 95,7 CT

Montrose 1990, 100 PP, 96,3 CT

Margaux 1990, 100 PP, 96,7 CT

Beausejour Duffau Lagarosse 1990, 100 PP, 96,9 CT

Mystery Bottle 2003, 100 PP, 95,8 CT

Lijstje is nog niet helemaal volledig, maar dat scheelt niet veel meer.

uw Hendrik

Kijk er enorm naar uit!

Waar staat CT eigenlijk voor?

Lees net een artikel over een mogelijke classificatie door FINE Wine Magazines:

FINE´S NAPA VALLEY CLASSIFICATION

First Growths

Harlan Estate

Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon

Colgin, Herb Lamb Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Bryant Family Cabernet Sauvignon

Araujo, Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Heitz, Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Second Growths

Dalla Valle, Maya

Abreu, Madrona Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon

Pahlmeyer Red

Grace Family Cabernet Sauvignon

Shafer, Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Joseph Phelps, Insignia

Dominus

Opus One

Dunn, Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

Caymus, Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon

Chateau Montelena, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

Stag's Leap, Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon Proprietary Red

Rubicon Estate, Rubicon Proprietary Blend

Met deze uitleg:

One of the world’s major wine regions, Napa Valley, has never classified its wines. Anyone purchasing Napa Valley´s best wines faces a hard task, because often their high price relies on the subjective estimation of just one critic. Do the best wines of Napa Valley not deserve the same sort of recognition as, say, the classified French wines, which would make things clearer for consumers all over the world? We think so.

But what sort of classification system would suit the Napa Valley wines best? This is the question our editors mulled over in the winter of 2008. We eventually came up with a solution in spring 2009.

In our view, the quality of the wine is what is most important to the average consumer, but the classification could not be based solely on this. To make the classification as plausible as possible, FINE Magazines decided to take all the most important elements into account. Hence, it is based on the wine’s quality, its reputation and the price that reflects this, history, the estate’s winemaking philosophy and terroir. We furthermore decided that in order to qualify for inclusion in our classification, a wine must have a minimum of 15 vintages on the market.

These are given a different weighting in determining the final rankings, as follows: the wine’s quality 45%, its price 20%, the terroir 20%, the winemaking philosophy 10%, and history 5%.

“When we undertook this classification it was the quality of the wine that was by far the most important criterion to take into account. It is also, in our view, the only thing that is of real importance to the average consumer. After all, not even the best marketing campaign or a long, prize-winning history can turn a poor wine into a good one,” said Pekka Nuikki, the Editor-in-Chief of American FINE Wine Magazine.

As our classification is founded on the views and assessments of the Editors of the International FINE Wine magazines, it is, of course, completely subjective. We interviewed more than 60 wine professionals in the region and invited them to contribute their opinion as to which wines ought to be included in the first and second growth categories.

In total, we proposed 55 wines for classification into the first and second growth category, and just 11 were mentioned with regards to the first growth group – with 85 per cent of the votes going to just three wines. It was interesting to note the views of these professionals were pleasingly generic. This led us to believe that it may well be possible to find consensus on an official classification, which we hope will take place in the near future.

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John Copier

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