My TOP 7 WINES & Wine Experiences of 2023
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- 2023 has been an amazing year for me and the No Sediment CZcams channel, so I wanted to share my top 7 wine highlights, including best wines tasted and most memorable wine experiences.
GIVEAWAY CLOSED - Thank you everyone for participating. The winner will be announced on my 14 January video. Cheers! 🥂
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**CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Barrel tasting @ Pierre Gonon winery
2:35 Surprise wine of 2023
5:21 Starting No Sediment Wine Podcast
6:54 Amazing Architecture of Rioja Wineries
8:34 1973 Vintage Prunotto Barolo
10:27 Visiting Chateau Latour
11:27 My Top Wine of 2023
12:56 Honorable mentions & final thoughts
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GIVEAWAY CLOSED - Thank you everyone for participating. The winner will be announced on my 14 January video. Cheers! 🥂
Thanks for this amazing year of reviews. This year, on holiday, we went to Piamonte, and, was an incredible trip. We had visited some cellars, and the most beautiful visit was in the Dosio Vignetti, in La Morra. The visit was fantastic, and the taste, outstanding, formidable! Carlo, the host of our visit, was the best. And in the line-up of wines we could taste a Barolo from the 1974, what a beauty. Great memories from this travel, people, wine and beautiful landscapes.
Thank you Agnese for all of the great content this year. I’ve especially been enjoying your newly added podcasts. Keep the videos coming in 2024 and happy New Year!…🎉
My favorite 2023 wine experience was the visit of the Leyre-loup domaine in the Beaujolais. It was suppose to be a short wine tasting of there Morgon and Fleurie wines.
But what a visit!!!. We were welcome by the parents of the owner.
First, we had not only a visit of there domaine but also a visit of the famous " Cote de Puy" area.
Now I have a good understanding of the very complexity of the different Beaujolais soil.
Then mister Leyre-loup explain to my two daughters at his domaine the process how to make wine. It was just funny and great !
Last but not least, we were invite to dinner with them. We were suppose to have a "simple" dinner.
After 8 differents dishes, a lot of laughs, interesting talks and a great wine tasting of a lot bottes, a simple dinner has another definition for them.
This diner was also very emotional to me, not only because we had a great encouter with Miss and Mister Leyre-loup but because miss Leyre-loup has the same personality as my deceased grand-mother, who was an important person to me.
To me, what makes wine great are the encouters and sharing good bottles with friends, family and wine lovers.
My 2023 highlight happened this past summer in the Piedmont. My wife and I were having dinner at Osteria taStè in Barbaresco. This was definitely some of the best food we had on our month long trip, but what made the experience so memorable were our table neighbors. After chatting for the better part of dinner we discovered that one of them was a former mayor of Barbaresco and the other was a local winery owner. We discussed various wines in the area and they shared a Marziano Abbona Cinerino Lange Bianca which was quite tasty! This was such an amazing experience for us both and is why we love to travel and interact with locals every chance we get!
Loved experience in Grande Masons of Champagne all 16.
Had a luck to be a member of Champagne Academy 2023 !!!
And in July had a luck to visit Ornellaia ! That was epic! Thanks to Matteo and Greg !
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This year’s best experience was Saint-Emilions portes ouvertes allowing me and my friends to visit more than 10 wineries while walking around this amazing village. May 2024 bring even more sips of wine!
Best wine of the year was for sure 2014 Heitz Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, enjoyed with dear friends and winelovers a few days ago.
Happy New Year!🥂
Agnese, I love the way you love what you do 👍❤🍷😊. My top wine is ORENO by Tenuta Sette Ponti. A 2008 ORENO was a gift from a colleague. Decided to open it up years later on my mothers 85th BD. It was super delicious and we really enjoyed it , slowly i might add savouring every sip. We have been enjoying ORENO every year since with this year in December being Mothers 92 BD. 2018 Vintage very nice but I think 2008 must have been a very special year/Vintage ...we are still experiencing the long finish LOL. Cheers to 2024 👋🍷
Agnese, thanks for all you do for the wine community. My wife and I fell in love with Warre's Otima 10 Year Tawny Port. We love sipping it with a nice cigar by the fire while camping, or laying on the beach together.
Sounds absolutely amazing, even though I don’t smoke cigars! 🙌
Thank you Agnese for a wonderful end to 2023!!! I love your "No Sediment" channel. I love Cava, and for me & my wife our favorite on 2023 was Codorniu - Seleccion Familia Raventos - Reserva - Brut 2018. Cheers !!!
Thank you, Agnese for your work on this channel. Many wine geeks like myself who don't have the money or the credentials to visit wineries and wine regions often, this channel helps a lot in that regard, especially with the new podcasts. The growth of the channel is much deserved and we hope to have you around for much longer here on CZcams!
This year I've learned a fair bit, and I expect to rump up that mark for next year when I get into DipWSET! My best wine experience of the year are two, both recent, but I leave them here in case anyone likes a fun little story:
1) I bought a 12 half-bottle case of wines from around the world at Costco, which replaces the conventional wine advent calendar for December. I've been tasting them all blind, working through the wine to see if I could get them. To my surprise, I've seen that my tasting notes are usually very closely aligned with the correct result even if I often ended up pointing somewhere else, which has given me a MASSIVE, much needed boost in confidence. A couple of days ago I funnelled all the way to a Pinot Blanc, which is a quite neutral variety, and it got me super excited for the next year!
2) I had heard such alluring stories about Lacrima di Morro d'Alba, which I later discovered that it's produced in a remote wine region from Italy that ties back to an endearing personal story (nowhere near Alba in Piemonte!). I even DREAMED about opening that bottle I keep! Finally, I got to taste it one evening in Madrid, and it was one of those rare times when reality goes beyond high expectations. I began scribble down unusual, intriguing aromas which I then read about when learning more about the wine. Now I keep three bottles from different producers and I have no idea what to do with them! I should set up a tasting or something. I think I currently hold the biggest collection of Lacrima di Morro d'Alba in Spain 😂
Hi Agnes, big thanks for your videos in 2023, I'm already looking forward to what's coming in 2024! My favourite wine in 2023 was a Santa Giulia 2020 Merlot. Santa Giulia is located in Montalcino, where your favorite of 2023 wine comes from too. Love their Brunello's already for years, and the Merlot that is produced in small quantity was an excellent VFM discovery. I wish you a happy new year from Belgium and lot's of enjoyable wine discoveries in 2024. PS : If I should be lucky enough to win the hat, please sign it before shipping so it will be a real collectors item.
Great recap, Thank you Agnese! My favorite wine this year was a 2010 Chateau Climens. Sumptuous and such an amazing value. Happy New Year!!
My favourite, very recent wine was Domäne Serrig Große Lage 2020 wich is just an unbelievable classic Riesling for how young it is. I await its potential🎉
Great job on this channel, love the energy and passion. My highlight for 2023 was tasting the Pio Cesare Barolo from 1958, amazing wine still and with beautiful notes.
One of the best discoveries I made was tasting a glass of the Veuve Clicquot Grand Dame. It gave me such a new appreciation of blancs de noir champagne, Trying it in their cellar was an extra treat. Another highlight was discovering your channel which help prepared our trip to Champagne. Your videos are always full of great information, done with such honesty and humility. All the best in 2024.
Tasting (enjoying) wines in the cellars, together with people who have made it is amongst the most exceptional experiences one can imagine! 🥂🍾 And thank You for the greatest compliment! 🍾 Cheers! ✨
Great job. The most important is that you are happy with what you’re doing. Wish you to keep the passion for wine and stay healthy.
Boris from Bulgaria
Thanks for the video. I think my favorite wine of 2023 was also an old Barolo. It was a 1967 Terre del Barolo, that a friend shared with me. In part it was memorable because 1967 happens to be my birth year.
Thank you Agnese for a wonderful end to 2023. Your channel is my favorite wine centered channel on CZcams! This was one of your best videos ever, not only for the lovely views of wineries and vineyards but for the thoughtful content and wine analysis. I'm a Sommelier too and every Sunday when I go to the gym to do my cardio, I look forward to your input on wine and the people who are part of its production. Congratulations on stepping into the world of podcasts! I love champagne and I recently really enjoyed a Brut Nature Blanc de Blanc from Laurent Perrier, which is operated and run by women!
Hello Agnes, your wine descriptions are beautiful. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Top wine, 2016 Paul Bara, just had it with a crab dinner. Beautiful dress and thanks for all the enjoyable videos. Cheers & happy new year.
My favourite wine moment of 2023 was tasting three of the 1st Growth Bordeaux’s from the legendary 1982 vintage - Château Latour, Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, and Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild. This was at a lunch with wine loving friends. At the same lunch we also had a couple of vintages of Armand Rousseau Grand Cru red Burgundies. Amazing tasting.
My favorite wine experience this year was having a tour and tasting at Dunn Vineyards on Howell Mountain and meeting the Randy Dunn. Looking forward to more of your videos in 2024. Thank you.
Sounds really epic! It is always extra exciting to meet people behind the project. 🍷 Cheers!
The best experience of my year was meeting the National Rep for Catena and going through her top tier samples. The room would disappear and it was just me and the notes of the wine in our own pocket dimension!
Argento Lot9 Pinot Noir was a bit of a life changer...
And recently, the Joel Delaunay La Voute Touraine Chenonceaux 22' I felt could transport me to a riverside picnic if I closed my eyes! I actually cried when I sold the last bottle of it.
Thank you for your work and passion in 2023! Looking forward to seeing more of you in 2024 🎉
I try to visit wine regions every year and two of my go-to places are Alto Adige (Suedtirol) and Wachau where I fell in love with Gruener Veltliner.
My favourite wine of 2023 was Alte Reben Chardonnay by Huber (Baden). My greatest discovery was Derthona Timorasso by Vietti and the most bottles emptied were Moscato d‘Asti 😂
I'm pretty new to wine so my top wine experience of 2023 might not be anything special by more experienced enthusiasts' or professionals' standards, but here we go...
My wife and I have really been enjoying inexpensive white wines from Portugal's Alentejo. Following several positive experiences, we decided to try the next step up on the quality ladder and bought a 2021 Esporão Reserva Branco. Initially, I was honestly a bit disappointed. The wine seemed a bit closed and, at the start, didn't offer much in the way of aromas or flavors that we hadn't already noted in entry level wines from the region. As the wine warmed in the glass though, it did open up more and became more complex, but I had still hoped for something more.
A little while after I had finished my last glass, I noticed a beautiful flavor on my palate that reminded me of concentrated lemon and propolis extract. It was such a beautiful and pure flavor that I started asking myself what I'd eaten that would have had that flavor. Then, I realized that I was still tasting the wine! It had been somewhere close to a solid minute since I'd taken my last sip. I'd never tasted a wine with a finish that long before so it wasn't even on my mind to pay attention that long after drinking; I'd completely missed this aspect of the wine while tasting it earlier. I quickly poured myself another half glass and, more slowly and thoughtfully than before, savored every second of the long, concentrated finish that the wine offered.
The way the wine rewarded thoughtfulness and continued focus on its flavors along with how it taught me what a long finish means makes this my favorite wine experience of 2023!
As always, thanks for the awesome content! I'm excited to see what you share in 2024 :)
Thank you for all the videos in 2023! My memorable moment is drinking the Catena Zapata Adrianna vineyard white stones chardonnay 2017. It’s minerally driven with taste of oyster shell and zest, smooth and layered. It is a good contrast to my favorite Leeuwin Art Series Chard which is more fruit focused with long length. Can’t wait to taste the Adrianna white bones chardonnay later in 2024!
This is such a good series, both from a learning experience as from a feel good experience.
Thank You! 🙌🙌🙌 Really happy You enjoy it! 🥰
Top wine-experiences of 2023, in no particular order.
Comtes de Champagne 2012 (served blind at a Comité de Champagne Masterclass)
Visiting Allram in Kamptal, tasting multiple vintages and single vineyard wines, from their cellar, with Lorenz Allram.
Penfolds Collection-tasting with Peter Gago
Tasting, or more correct, being introduced to Eladio Piñeiro´s world class Albariño
Hi, Agnese.
My great wine experience in 2023 was meeting/degustation with leading local winemakers at the place where I'm living.
It's Voronezh region, 500 km south of Moscow.
It was incredible cool.👍
It's not a winemaking region, but I hope next several years it will be changed.
Happy New Year and best wishes!
Congrats to you! My industry friends and I threw a Big Beaujolais Party earlier in the year popping corks from various producers covering all sub-appellations Crus! Nothing like good times & good wines! Thanks!
Thank you for the amazing content. This is some of the best wine info on the web and delivered with such style. Best in 2024.
One of my top wine experiences of 2023 was discovering Capel Vale's 2018 single vinyard Shiraz. It was amazing and powerful, delicious dark fruit. I would also mention watching your weekly videos on Sundays has been something I have really enjoyed. I wish you a Happy New Year.
Thanks for your passion and all sharing with us. Throughout my WSET studies, my 2023 wine experience was indeed the surprise (to me) on the beauty of sweet wines. Not much into it, but hell ya, much better than desert with expresso :). Cheers!
Thank you for a great channel :-) Exploring the (slightly) aged wine from Bordeaux Dame Graffelière 2014 with a big steak for dinner is my best wine memory in 2023.
Sounds like a really great experience! Thank You! 🙌🙌🙌
Congratulations on a great number of YT posts in 2023. Such enthusiasm and knowledge sharing is rare and valued. Wishing you more success and love of life in 2024. 🥂🍷🥂🏅
Love your insightful videos! I’ve had lots of great wines from Australia, Burgundy, Champagne, Piedmont, Tuscany, Mosel and Rioja this year. However, my wine of 2023 is the humble 2020 Patrice Rion Cote de Nuits Villages V.V. pinot noir. Sharing it with friends by the forest in remote Japan was an unexpected and pleasant surprise. There was something magical drinking the wine amongst the scent of the wet forest, songs of the summer cicadas and of course, good company. Have a great year ahead No Sediment 🎉
Château La Clarière 2021. Don’t drink it when you open it. I carafed it over night, and the next day it was a delicious St Emilion wannabe but affordable. The oxygen gave the wine more body and deeper color! It was like a 96 pt Bordeaux. My discerning Francophile friends also loved it.
Great, great, great! Thank You for sharing that! 🙌🙌🙌
Hi Agnese, great experiences in 2023! In general, I like how you have your own style on CZcams compared to other wine channels, and you stand out from the rest! Each of your videos gives inspiration, whether it is to try a new wine, region, grape, plan a trip, do some reading etc. Great job, keep it up and cheers to more great experiences in 2024!
My best experience in 2023 was a visit and tasting before our wedding, at the Oenops winery (Drama, Greece) which wines have accompanied me and my husband throughout our relationship so far - in both "bigger" moments as well as the everyday, "small" moments. After drinking their wines so often, we visited for the first time, re-tasted all of them, and made a selection for the wines to serve at our wedding. It is beautiful how a single sip can bring back so many memories.
Another amazing video! I can feel the passion and enthusiasm jumping through my screen! Thank you!
Great video Agnese. Happy New Year!
stella was tied with the sadie columella for best wine of 2023. if you can get more stella di campalto let me know😅 i need more 😍
My 2023 highlight was finally being able to visit Vila Nova de Gaia and tour some of the port houses. Originally planned for 2020, Covid caused a delay of a few years. We also enjoyed a lovely stay on the Douro River and visiting a couple of vineyards. Here's to a great 2024 for you and your channel!
Happy New Year Agnese! My best wine experience of 2023 was discovering a small wine shop here in London that specialises in small growers from France. So every couple of weeks I’ll go in and ask for recommendations from the team to try out.
As an Aussie who loves Italian wines, I haven’t chased too many French wines to date, but now, with some expert help, my little wine world is becoming a lot larger and richer.
I’m looking to do my WSET Level 3 this year and my widening palette will be enjoying all the exploring and “training”! 😀
2000 Chateau Lafon Rochet was a great bottle for us this year. Love your channel, keep up the great work!
Your presentation is so good and nice as you are - thank you🌹
Thank You! 🙏🏻 I appreciate You saying so. 🥂✨ Cheers! 🥂
Kudos on a great year! Loved watching and learning through your all of your videos! I am definitely liking your new long-format podcasts to listen to the insights of winemakers, professionals critics, and Masters of Wine!
My favorite wine experiences this year have been Mini-Wine Flights--all of which were paired with our home culinary creations by my dining companion as the Chef and me as Sous Chef/"Beverage Director." This year, we enjoyed more specific themes like true horizontal tasting. The most memorable one was the same major grape/winery/vintage but different tier (entry vs. mid-level) because the quality (concentration, specificity of flavor categories/aromas, length) were noticeably different. Of course, our favorite flights involve comparing the same dish with different wines and/or beers!
Following your content has me considering going down the WSET rabbit hole 😮.
My experience of the year was my first time ever with a 1st growth. Splurged big time on a glass of 1999 Chateau Haut-Brion at an event and wow it was worth every Euro.
Dear Agnes, to me Also 2023 was a Great year for wine tasting. i visited Langa, Montalcino, and Valpolicella+ Soave. Thanks to y inspiration i got ti meet Rivetto Estate and It was A huge surprise. thank U Agnes ! 😁🖐️
Agnes you are amazing! What a wonderful year of wine we’ve had. My favorite experience was in the Algarve of Portugal sharing a meal and tasting wine beneath 2000 year old olive tree! It was amazing. ❤
These are some of the best experiences ever! Thank You for sharing’ 🙏🏻🍾🥂✨ Cheers!
amazing, passionate and emotional video as always! hopefully will see you soon in Georgia too… have a great 2024!🎉
Great video and happy new year from Puerto Rico🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
Kudos to you for your high-energy and engaging style! The wine experience I most vividly recall is drinking the 2011 Prado Enea Gran Reserva 2011 from Rioja. There are two reasons for this total recall: 1) the wine is (was) spectacular; but 2) my wife and I, who never seem to agree on wine, were both smitten by this one! So, this wine is the great unifier!
Thanks you Agnese for your channel. It is always interesting.
My 2024 wine resolutions are visting Francois Chidaine domaine at Montlouis-sur-Loire.
His wines are just great and his 2016 "les Bourdais" was my 2023 greatest surprise.
My another 2024 wine resolution is (visiting Vienna with my family and) to discover Wachau producers and wines.
And this is thanks to you 😊😊😊
Wow, this is great! Francois Chidaine has been on my list as well! 🙌🙌🙌
Hi Agnes! Thank you for another wonderful video and I would like to convey my best wishes and a great 2024 to you and the team! I have tasted a lovely collection of wines this year, ranging from Dido's La venus de Montsant and Lopez Heredia Rioja Vina Tondonia to Lynch Bages 2001 and Chateau Feuillet 2015, and many Barolo's and Brunello's aswell. All wonderful wines. But the best and most interesting wine I had this year was the 2010 Le Puy Cuvee Emilien during a little tasting which I hosted amoung friends. This wine starts with a lot of barnyard aroma's but after and hour it opens up wonderfully with many dried fruits, a lot of acidity and medium tannins. The wines of Le Puy are made how they were made a 100 years ago, and it shows! A truly stunning wine which is (unfortunately) mostly overlooked by many wine critics. I recently bought a couple of the 2015 vintage and I can't wait to taste them in a couple of years!
With your cap you have to taste more wines from the US. 😅. Anyway, as I am from germany it is a little bit harder to purcase wines from the state, but during christmas I opened a bottle 2017 Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict 32th vintage from Winemaker Jim Clendenen and it was an absolute blast. ...... Keep up the good work and all the best for 2024!
Hi Agnes, I'm Fabrizio from Italy, I live in Sardinia in the Catalan town of Alghero. I like "No Sediment" quite a lot and I hope to see a lot more in 2024. here in Sardinia there are many wineries but this year I tasted a white wine from Sella & Mosca estate which was in mine opinion a nice surprise: The wine is called Catore and is a 100% Torbato grape with a little percentage maturated in oak barrels. Nothing to compare with a Mersault wine of course but is worthy to try. Cheers and happy 2024
Hi! How are You? 🙌 Thank You for commenting! This is new to me, I have to check out this specific grape variety. And Happy New Year to You too! 🙌
@@NoSediment My favourite Sardinian red wine (but not tasted this year) is Turriga from Argiolas winery. A blend of local grapes at their best:Cannonau, Carignano (those two originated in Spain..Garnacha tinta and Carinêna), Bovale and Malvasia nera. Not cheap but really a serious wine. If you find it in the US try it...Otherwise come to Sardinia😅
Congrats Agnese!, it’s always a great feeling to see the YT notification popping up when you upload your videos. My most rewarding experience, well I had 2: 1. A BDX tasting with a jeroboam bottle of Ch. Haut-Brion 1980 and a bottle of Ch. Margaux 98’.
And 2nd. Some friends and I call ourselves the BaroLovers and had a tasting with many diferent barolos from different mgas.
Your channel helped me learn a lot as I just got into wine this year. Haven’t had that many wines yet but my favorite one this year was the Nickel & Nickel Dragon Fly 2020. We got to taste it in our private tour and for new wine drinkers like us, I did not know wines could taste that good even though it was a young wine.
Wine tour (20 flights) of Northern Michigan, USA with my brother: Left Foot Charley Riesling 2020 Terminal Moraine Old Mission Peninsula. Also, found pinot gris and pinot noir by Verterra Winery on the Leelanau Peninsula to be wonderful. You should add this area to your list!
Thanks for a great year with loads of interesting content. You give us inspiration to try new ones and old ones. My big one for 23 probably a 2010 Bordeaux that I have a few bottles of. The nose was great and a piece of meat some BA sauce wow. The best there are a few bottles left. ;)
Wow! 🤩 Bordeaux indeed is where maturity brings absolutely beautiful nose and complexity. And it is always nice to know, there are few more bottles that You can spoil Yourself with. 💪
My wine top moment was a tasting including many good wines, Sassicaia, Tignanello. I really liked Solengo from Argiano. For x- max i opened a Burmester colheita port from 1955. Tomorrow i drink champ. Blanc de blanc 🎉
Hello Agnese, thank you so much for all your informative and passionate videos! You are so lucky to have had these experiences and thank you for sharing! I also like that you keep it somewhat budget friendly quite often. Please keep it up! To think of my favorite wine of 2023, I have to say it’s quite a big surprise (which I am even concerned a bit to give it away 😅), but well here goes… Hecula Monastrell (Mourvèdre, 100%) 2020 (2021?)!! I have drank Napa cabs, Bordeauxs (a wooden case of 4 but nothing too expensive but several of them came a close first there) even an Amarone and a Barolo (all under 50) in 2023, but I am still picking this! I have another Petit Sirah (Parducci, Ukiah, Mendocino) which could also go as both my best wine experience and wine of 2023. With the Monastrell, I think it was both the surprise factor of being blown away by a Monastrell, which I never expected, organic grapes and sustainably grown (always good to have best of both worlds but rarely works out!) and most of all the affordability (I really hope they keep it that way). I love big reds but to have such a big wine with such delicate aromas (and intense at times) was just amazing. I am indeed a big nose and that’s an important factor for me in any wine (and I mostly find that in Napa Cabs which aren’t the most affordable), medium acidity, rounded tannins, delicate spices on the nose I even got floral at times. Blew me away! Also goes to show the best wine for you doesn’t always have to be the most expensive one or the most renowned one. Of course there are many factors that make even a great wine not as great when you meet her, but so much of it is also a matter of chance (unless you drink at the winery 😅). Salud to a great 2023! I am trying to reduce and be more picky, let me see how it goes 😂
I have really enjoyed your channel this year. Have a wonderful 2024. Please keep up the excellent content.
Another great video Agnese, I look forward to seeing and leaning much more in 2024. Most memorable wine moment for me in 23 was sitting on the terrace at Villard winery (Casablanca, Chile) enjoying a superb lunch with my wife and talking about (and tasting) their wines with the winemaker - A wonderful experience.
Inspiring as ever. Happy New Year's!
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Love to see your highlights of 2023! My best experience was the following: the visit at Osteria Enoteca San Guido and tasting their wines alongside a matching tasting menu. As you can guess it was the Sassicaia that blew me away, especially because it was from 2020. I didnt expect such balance and finesse for this young age.
Hi Agnes! Thank you for your videos! I have learned so much and am currently studying for the WSET Level 3 in wines. Any helpful tips would be greatly appreciated, by the way 🙂 Please keep sharing your knowledge and don't forget to include your beautiful dog. He shares your love of wine too :) I would be incredibly happy to win the hat and would proudly wear it at work, at the beach, and hopefully, at a vineyard one day. Happy New Year! Many more blessings in 2024!
It's been so much fun this year watching your channel grow and evolve. Thank you for all the great lessons and info and inspiration! My favorite wine memories this year were about giving the gift of wine -- to my colleagues, friends, and to my brother. I loved being able to share my passion for wine with them, loved getting to know their tastes and then hearing their reactions to grapes and wines that hopefully opened something new for them. It's what makes this wine hobby so meaningful for me.
Hi! CONGRATULATIONS! 💫You are the winner of the No Sediment hat giveaway (see my latest Q&A video where I pick the winner). Please contact me via Instagram (@blancdenoir) or e-mail agnese@nosediment.com with your delivery details. Cheers! 🥂
@@NoSediment That's awesome! Thank you, Agnese! Just sent you an email. 😊
I have two best wines of 2023, both Italian, which I would not have predicted at the start of the year. The two were: Mascarello, 2011 Barolo; and, strangely given your top pick, a 2015 Brunello di Montalcino, Val di Suga (fortunately, the first of six). I haven't the wine vocabulary to describe them adequately but long, complex, multi-layered and memorable will have to do.
Happy New Year to you and yours. Looking forward to your videos in 2024. A 2014 Pouilly Fuissé and a 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape will be our wines of choice this New Year weekend.
There's a local restaurant that always has fascinating wines. One visit they poured me Tinto Vulcanico, a field blend from the Azores islands. It was delightful and so unusual.
My top highlight was drinking a bottle of DRC "La Tache" 2014 with one of my best friends although I had to pay for it because I lost a bet against him.😊
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and knowledge with us in 2023 Agnes. I love your passion. You have helped to inspire me to continue through my WSET training and take on Level 3 currently.
My favorite wine experience of 2023 was tasting and learning more about the great noble grapes of Europe through my WSET course work and tasting exercises. With the German Spatelese and Auslese Rieslings being my favorite new experiences.
I Love that hat!! 🤞🏼
Great! This is like honey to my ears. Studying Your passion is the best! 🥂🍾
Happy New Year 2024 to you !
Thank You and happy New Year to You too. 🥂🍾
I don't really have a favourite wine in 2023 or any other year for that matter. I probably learned a lot since I didn't know anything from before, but by and large wine is still a mystery to me. I'm always mulling over something and trying to make a personal wine map if you will, but so far I just don't know where I'm going.
Lately I've had a growing awareness of just how important context is for the enjoyment of wine, which I'm honestly a little shocked just how crucial it seems to be. As if wine wasn't difficult enough in and of itself, I now have to contend with the fact that the same wine isn't the same depending on mood and so on. My God.
I do have a favourite wine YT channel though, and yours is it. That was easy compared 😄 Happy New Year!
Agnese 🎉 2023 was great for me, because of discovering you. You're my 🍷 Vinous Queen from here on in!
My favourite experience was finally meeting you!!!
Hahahha! You are so sweet! 🥰 I miss U this year greatly! 🥲
Crazy prices for the Stella Campalto
Unfortunately it is true! 😔
Better alternatives out there
Very nice 2023 experience in review.
Thank You! It was a wonderful and adventurous year! 🥂
Great video Agnese! Love Bordeaux and Latour (visited a few years ago). My best experiences this year : Lagrange and Lafleur. My top wines : Clos du Mesnil 2006, Krug (many editions), Bollinger La Côte aux Enfants 2013, Selosse Exquise, Haut-Brion 89, Lafleur 2020, Gaja San Lorenzo 1995, Lafite-Rothschild 96 and 2003, Masseto 2013, Penfolds Grange 16 and 17, Keller Pettenthal 2010, Dauvissat les Clos 2008. Disappointement with DRC Duvault-Blochet 2008. Cheers and wish U the best 🥂
My top wine of 2023 was Soulmate Grande Reserva Tinto 2019 from Douro, Portugal. Another I am looking forward, but haven't had the opportunity yet is St. Andrea Agapé Egri Bikavér Grand Superior 2018 from Hungary.
As it happens I just had the St Andreas Grand Superior 2017. Pretty nice, lovely wine, but overpriced. It should be a 50 euros bottle. Also has a plastic cork…. …
@@radu6180 Unfortunately Hungarian wines are expensive as the costs are high. The Grand Superior is good, but the Agapé is their top wine. It's not cheap either though.
Laimīgu jauno gadu, Agnese! I had some nice wines this year (and there is a bottle of Bollinger for the new year's eve). The best ones were:
- Royal Tokaji Aszú 6 puttonyos 2016
- Murgo Tenuta San Michele Etna Bianco 2020
- Péter Wetzer Kékfrankos PetiNat 2020
- Château Vartely Individo Rara Neagra Sec Rosu 2019
- Philipponnat Royale Réserve Non Dosé Champagne NV
so two Hungarians, one Moldovan, one Sicilian and one Champagne - of course it was influenced by the fact that I'm living in Budapest and traveled to Romania and Sicily.
your list was great too, except for the architecture of those Spanish aberrations - I hate modern architecture so give me any building in Raiņa or Zigfrīda Annas Meierovica bulvāris and just explode all these weird constructions. I even prefer a Hesburger building over them 😅
and you went by car from Azienda Agricola No Sediment to Bordeaux... the kind of thing that gives me interesting ideas on what to do on my next holidays. Budapest to Alsace, maybe?
Aargh. So many great wines this year … but it boils down to a handful of bottles … winner … the 💯 points were for Beaucastel Vieilles Vignes Roussanne 2009 … got me quiet ( people who know me will understand 😂 ) and brought me back to fond memories with friends …