This is a beautiful white wine from the Loire Valley in France. Made with 100% Chenin Blanc grapes, from an excellent winemaker named Nicolas Idiart. He runs Maison Idiart, which produces a number of top quality wines. 

Grapes are hand harvested from 20-30 year old vines, immediately pressed before they undergo spontaneous fermentation in steel tanks. It’s matured for 10 months on the lees.
It’s rare to find a bottle like this, with the quality it represents and at this price. It’s a very clean and beautiful representation of what the grape can achieve in the Loire Valley. 
Easy to drink on its own and incredibly versatile to pair with food. It might just be this summer’s Best Buy!

Leitz Rheingau Pinot Noir Rosé 2022 - 150,- kr

Very pale rose colour. Citrus, strawberries and lime on the nose with hints of herbs. As always with Leitz, great acidity that gives good structure to the wine. Red apples and red berries in the mouth with great length. Just a great quality wine!
This is a drink with friends wine, but will go well with white fish, salads and chicken.

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Hardanger is to Norway, what Champagne is to France. Apples do not get any better, anywhere in the world. The combination of soli, drainage, temperature, rainfall and sun exposure makes the fjords of Hardanger in a league of its own, when it comes to growing apples. 
There are several cider producers in Hardanger that crafts excellent cider. And sometimes legendary batches of liquid gold rises. A particularly good vintage, paired with a talented cider maker can be magical. 


Our pick of the week is just that.
Three kinds of apples from Hardanger, Summered, Gravenstein and Aroma. Picked to perfection when perfectly ripe, bursting with sugars and acidity. They are then frozen before pressing. What you then get is a super concentrated nectar, with only a few drops from each apple. 


The end product is astonishing. While it’s naturally sweet, the unique acidity of the Hardanger apples balances it all out. The cider feels fresh and vibrant, with tremendous flavor and elegance. 
The cider will age for 500 years and more. So if you’re cool, buy a few bottles for future generations.

I brought a case of this rosé to a spring celebration at work last year. It also featured a few other rosés, but this was by far the most popular. My colleagues just loved the combination of rich summer flavors and the light easy drinking feel of the wine. And since it comes in a non typical rosé bottle, they probably wouldn’t have selected it themselves. 
The wine is produced by Thymiopoulos Vineyards in Greece and features 100% Xynomavro. It’s a fabulous red grape, native to the country and can remind you of the Italian Nebbiolo grape. It’s known for producing structured and flavorful red wines and in this case a great rosé. Grapes are specially selected from higher altitude vineyards and naturally fermented.

The Umani Ronchi winery was established in the 50s in the heart of the Verdicchio appellation and produces a large range of red, white and sparkling wines. They are proud to show off the best of the Marche and Abruzzo regions and this week's wine is both affordable and of great quality. ​

Umani Ronchi I Sassi Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore or just I Sassi for short, is made from 100% Verdicchio grapes, picked from different plots in the heart of Cupramontana. The wine fermented in 10-15 days in steel tanks and then five months maturing on lees. ​

Umani Ronchi I Sassi Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore 2021 - 179,90 kr

Young and fruity on the nose, with hints of white flowers, peach and herbs. Good acidity gives the wine fine structure. In the mouth I get ripe yellow apples with hints of lime. This will go great with shellfish, all kinds of white fish, especially grilled. It also drinks nice all alone.
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We continue our love for Argentinian wines with this beautiful Malbec. Bodega Colomé has been making quality wines in the remote Calchaquí Valley since 1831. It’s the oldest winery in the country and one of the most highly regarded. They’ve focused on high altitude wines, with their highest vineyards peaking over 3000 meters above sea level. High altitude grapes develop thicker skin which in turn protects the fruit and produces more antioxidants. 
All of these factors result in a deep, vibrant, aromatic wine
Our pick of the week is their estate Malbec. A spicy, rich and complex wine. Excellent with food, brilliant alone and a bargain.

​We visited the Bouillot winery back in 2016 and got to see their impressive winery up close. You can see the episode here:

Since this has been our go to sparkling under 200,- NOK. It’s now priced at 199,90 so it’s just under the 200 now, but still worth it. So everyone should grab a bottle and go out in the spring sun. ​

Louis Bouillot Crémant de Bourgogne Perle de Vigne Grand Réserve - 199,90 kr

​Very nice mousse. Lemon, lime and hints of a bakery on the nose. Long and fresh with great bubbles. Great and refreshing!

It’s rare for a rosé wine to get 90 points, but our pick of the week deserves every single point.
Simpson Wine Estate is situated outside the town of Canterbury, as far South East as you can get in England. Run by a couple with years of experience in the French wine industry, they’ve achieved remarkable results in England. They do excellent reds, whites and sparkling wines. All with impressive quality. We just tasted their Railway hill rosé, and it’s a stunner. 100% Pinot Noir, hand picked, whole cluster pressed and fermented in steel tanks. This is the essence of a British summer day.

For most people Bordeaux is a classic wine to go with beef. The problem have often been that the good Bordeaux-wines need age to be right to drink and not many people have the place or the patience to store  wines for the time that a Bordeaux need. Fortunately  Vinmonopolet have started selling good  wines from Bordeaux with some age and at a  very good price as well. The Chateau Lafitte-Tramier has been around for a few years now and it’s the 2010 vintage that you will find in the shops. ​