Some great wines at Van Durme this weekend ...

Next to the Vlaamse Landwijn (of which only the red one was good) that I discussed in the previous post there were also some other wines at the tasting of Wijnen Van Durme this weekend.

From the Cotes de Rhone there was a very nice Vacqueyras 2008 and an even better Gigondas 2007. The Vacqueyras was of course still too young, but it already had this very nice spicy taste.

From Burgundy there was a person from Henri de Villamont that brought 9 different wines with him, ranging from an 'awful' Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains (which is some kind of mixture of Pinot noir and Gamay from Beaujolais region) to a sublime 2005 Fixin 1er cru Clos du Chapitre.

The Bordeaux region was present with a a number of different Medoc, Graves and Saint-Emillion style wines. The best Bordeaux wines of the day were no doubt the excellent (and still affordable) Pomerol, 2005 Ch. La Fleur Saint Vincent and the Moulis, 2005 Ch. Dutruch Grand Poujeaux.

As the non-French wines (which is not the specialty of Van Durme to say the least), there was a very nice Sicilian Syrah, and also a very good and affordable Chilean Cabarnet-Merlot (Santa Carolina is the name, but I doubt it is linked the well known Santa Carolina bodega) that also had a lot of spices and very good taste.