Wine for Asia 2009!! 22nd to 24th October 2009

It was a 'must-go' for any wine lovers at the Wine for Asia 2009. With more than 100 hosted buyers at the event, and covering an entire hall at the Suntec Convention, this was simply Disneyland! Wenhui and I went for two days, albeit only short visit on each of the days. Besides the following images, we were also at BDX wines. Served by a very friendly Joseph Ang, they have fantastic value f0r money wines from Chateau Moulin de Corneil! Check them out at www.bdxwines.com!

This was a tasting of more than 30 French Chateaus of the 2005 and 2006 Vintages. Hosted at The Wine Review corner (with reknown wine writer Ch'ng Poh Tiong as it's publisher) it was a wide range of wines displayed from Smith Haut Lafite, Pichon Baron, Loeville Barton, Giscours, Le Fortis and many more mostly the Left back of Bordeaux. The 2006 was generally more approachable for drinking now while the 2005 has more tannins than we can take now.

Here Wenhui enjoying a tipple!

A humourous Has Haans, wine maker from Barossa Valley with approachable Shirz Prestige and Merlot Prestiage.


Another booth with lovely French wines, with 1982 Clos des Moines

My favourite of the lot! Smith Haut Lafite Blanc 2005!! The 2006 can only stand in the 2005's shadows...


At yet another booth, we bought the Stella Ridge Estate, Kyoho 2004 for SGD$35. Lovely wine of Umeshu's flavours!!

Drinking wine older than you. Chateau Ausone 1975

Finally, a Benchmark in wines, drinking wines older than one self, imagine the bottle of wine was already made, grapes picked seasons and years before you were born.

We had the opportunity to taste the Chateau Ausone 1975 (Magnum!), Chateau Loeville La Case 1981, Clos de la Roche Armand Rousseau pere e fils 1995. All were uncorked and decanted up to several hours. But all are still very tannic and not drinking!

We'll await reports from TK about the progress in the decanting, as they headed off for dinner and we have to prepare for our trip to Japan.

Mooncake + wine

We had our virgin wine dinner at our place, on the 16th day of the 8th lunar month, where the moon is supposed to be the brightest! Anyway, we had great fried 面线 (vermicelli) from Ming Kee Live Seafood (556 Macpherson Road Singapore 368231 Tel: 6747 4075), and duck/pork parts from Sin Fong Restaurant (Duck and Kway Chup). 560 MacPherson Road, blue cheese and pear, roasted pork sausages, with

• Duval-Leroy (lovely champagne, my liking of the dryness, absolutely important to keep the bottle in the ice bucket at all times!
• Langeron Nuits St George 2002 (Very light, classic NSG/pinot)
• Mount Tamborine Shiraz Cabernet 2005 (Tannins soften after ~1hr of decanting, approachable!
• Chateau Lambrounge 2000 (possible typo here, a garage wine from St Emillion, relatively big wine reminiscent of the left bank instead, tannins still on the palette after 5-6hours of decanting).

Till the next full moon!!