Barolo Flori

Att ett kooperativ kan göra bra vin är detta ett lysande exempel på, 300 odlare som gemensamt jobbar mot att odla dom bästa druvor som man kan på sina gemensamma 900 hektar.

Claudio Manera är vinmakare och även VD för företaget Araldica och investerar massor i vingårdarna för att kunna producera prisvärda viner med tydligt ursprung.

Druvorna 100% Nebbiolo till just detta vin (man gör en hel del olika) kommer till från vingårdarna runt La Morra och Grinzane i hjärtat av Barolo där druvorna skördas för hand och lagras i 24 månader på stora fat och därefter ytterligare 12 månader på flaska.

Detta kooperativ har gjort stor framgång internationellt för sina välgjorda och prisvärda viner.

 

Barolo Flori 2007 Nr SB   70401 179 kr

 

Är ett rött vin med orange mognadston med härliga toner av mogna röda bär, bigarråer, tobak och kryddor.

Smaken är torr med stor kryddig och kraftfull smak med tydlig mognad med balanserad fat ton och medelhög syra.

Lång och balanserad eftersmak gör att man vill bara ha mer av detta vin.

Passa perfekt till vilt med kraftfull sås och svamp.

 

Cava de Gramona

The Gramona history started more than 125 years ago and now it is the fifth generation who works for this famous house of wines.

The grapes for the Gramona wines all come from own land of 150 hectares mainly in the La Plana, Mas Escorpi, El Serralet and La Solana sites with the main grapes to be Xarello, chardonnay, Pinot noir and Macabeo.

The experimental vineyards of other known grape variety makes exiting wines with a modern twist.

The Cava Argent is made of chardonnay grapes and aged for 34 months shows delicate expression of the grape with long lasting taste.

III Lustros made of Xarello and Macabeo and aged for at least five years in the cellar with real cork is a true elegance and harmony in the bottle with great complexity and lingering taste.

The best wine is the Celler Batlle that have been aged for seven years on cork and contains the best grapes of Xarello and Macabeo, this wine is fantastic and shows nice creamy texture with loads of white peach, apricots and toasted almonds with very long finish, well worth seeking out for.

I like the way that Mr Gramona is working with the still wines in solera system that sets him apart from many other producers, great job.

The ice-wine’s are interesting and fun to taste that put Penedes wines in a new perspective.

CULINARY OLYMPICS ALL RESULTS 2012

Culinary Olympics 2012 Results

NATIONAL TEAM

Rank	Nation	ABC Cold Platters	Medal	R Hot Kitchen	Medal	Total points
1	Sweden	95,08	Gold	94,32	Gold	94,70
2	Norway	89,3	Silver	93,14	Gold	91,22
3	Germany	87,45	Silver	91,2	Gold	89,33
4	Canada	85,49	Silver	92,8	Gold	89,15
5	Switzerland	88,01	Silver	87,37	Silver	87,69
6	USA	89,44	Silver	85,84	Silver	87,64
7	Finland	86,73	Silver	87,4	Silver	87,07
8	The Netherlands	81,97	Silver	84,57	Silver	83,27
9	Australia	82,57	Silver	83,85	Silver	83,21
10	Japan	85,97	Silver	79,39	Bronze	82,68
11	Hong Kong	82,44	Silver	81,25	Silver	81,85
12	Denmark	76,58	Bronze	86,38	Silver	81,48
13	South Korea	85,4	Silver	76,99	Bronze	81,20
14	Malaysia	82,69	Silver	79,1	Bronze	80,90
15	South Africa	76,05	Bronze	85,47	Silver	80,76
16	England	77,55	Bronze	83,65	Silver	80,60
17	Wales	78,88	Bronze	82,2	Silver	80,54
18	Czech Republic	79,64	Bronze	80,94	Silver	80,29
19	Italy	81,86	Silver	78,17	Bronze	80,02
20	Scotland	77,73	Bronze	81,2	Silver	79,47
21	Hungary	72,2	Bronze	82,63	Silver	77,42
22	Portugal	75,9	Bronze	77,18	Bronze	76,54
23	Slovenia	67,92	Diplom	83,93	Silver	75,93
24	Malta	72,37	Bronze	78,11	Bronze	75,24
25	Cyprus	75,46	Bronze	73,85	Bronze	74,66
26	Slovakia	68,13	Diplom	77,46	Bronze	72,80
27	Romania	71,02	Bronze	73	Bronze	72,01
28	Luxembourg	63,8	Diplom	75,31	Bronze	69,56
29	Croatia	66,17	Diplom	72,52	Bronze	69,35
30	Mexico	60,59	Diplom	71,2	Bronze	65,90
31	Turkey	63,31	Diplom	67,82	Diplom	65,57
32	Ireland	60,47	Diplom	69,86	Diplom	65,17
33	Poland	56,42	Diplom	70,19	Bronze	63,31
34	Bulgaria	56,43	Diplom	64,53	Diplom	60,48
35	Israel	cancelled		65,65

Military

Place	Nation	Cold Platters	Medal	Warm Kitchen	Medal	Total points
1	Switzerland	93,06	Gold	93,77	Gold	93,415
2	Great Britain	92,24	Gold	93,11	Gold	92,67
3	Germany	92,73	Gold	88,88	Silver	90.805
4	USA	90,49	Gold	82	Silver	86,245
5	Hungary	87,73	Silver	71,77	Bronze	79,75
6	Slovenia	76,09	Bronze	78,55	Bronze	77,32
7	South Africa	74,03	Bronze	71,34	Bronze	72,685
8	Poland	67,74	Diplom	70	Bronze	68,87

Pastry

Rank	Nation	Show Piece	Medal	Show Kitchen	Medal
1	Sri Lanka	90,66	Gold	91,08	Gold
2	Germany	81,92	Silver	81,92	Silver
3	Italy	81,4	Silver	78,75	Bronze

Junior

Rank	Nation	ABC cold platter	Medal	R Hot kitchen	Medal	Total
1	Sweden	92,83	Gold	94	Gold	93,415
2	Norway	91,5	Gold	94,7	Gold	93,1
3	Switzerland	87,67	Silver	93,2	Gold	90,44
4	Denmark	91,94	Gold	86,6	Silver	89,27
5	USA	86,1	Silver	90,2	Gold	88,15
6	Thailand	82,66	Silver	91,7	Gold	87,18
7	Australia	81,28	Silver	90,6	Gold	85,94
8	Canada	82	Silver	86,7	Silver	84,35
9	Germany	78,58	Bronze	86,5	Silver	82,54
10	Italy	77,78	Bronze	87,1	Silver	82,44
11	Czech Rep.	80,46	Silver	79,5	Bronze	79,98
12	The Netherlands	76,07	Bronze	82,9	Silver	79,485
13	Wales	69,17	Diplom	88,2	Silver	78,69
14	South Africa	77,66	Bronze	79	Bronze	78,33
15	Austria	69,96	Diplom	83,5	Silver	76,73
16	Turkey	58,88	Diplom	58,88	Diplom	76,1
17	Portugal	72,17	Bronze	79,3	Bronze	75,74
18	Romania	74,96	Bronze	72,8	Bronze	73,88
19	Slovenia	70,83	Bronze	76,4	Bronze	73,62
20	England	69,36	Diplom	77,3	Bronze	73,33
21	Poland	58,73	Diplom	75,8	Bronze	67,27
22	Mexico	64,23	Diplom	70	Bronze	67,115
23	Kroatien	62,5	Diplom	69	Diplom	65,75
24	Guatemala	62,5	Diplom	68	Diplom	65,25
25	India	56,88	Diplom	53,4	Diplom	55,14

Community Catering

Rank	Nation	Name	Points	Medal
1	Sweden	Team Sabis	94	Gold
2	Switzerland	SVG Trophy	92	Gold
3	Germany	Klinik Löwenstein	91,77	Gold
4	Luxembourg	Zivilschutz Luxemburg	91	Gold
5	Sweden Fazer	Culinary	91	Gold
6	Switzerland	SV Culinary Circle	87	Silver
7	Sweden	Swedish School Restaurants	84,2	Silver
8	Switzerland	Compass Culinary Team	82	Silver
9	Germany	THW Trossingen	82	Silver
10	Belgium	PIVA Culinary Team	77	Bronze
11	Germany	L&D Team Berlin- Brandenburg	75	Bronze
12	Hungary	Biochef Hungary	73	Bronze
13	Austria	AGÖ Kuratorium Wiener Pensionisten Wohnhäuser	72	Bronze
14	Romania	A.C.E.E.A Romania	70	Bronze
15	Germany	Partyservice Gentscher	66	Diplom

Regional

Rang	Nation	Name	Punkte	Medaille
1	Sweden	Stockholm Culinary Team	90,74	Gold
2	Canada	Culinary Team Alberta	90,51	Gold
3	Switzerland	Aargauer Kochgilde	89,27	Silver
4	USA	ACF Culinary Regional Team USA	89	Silver
5	Switzerland	CCCZ Cercle des Chefs de Cusine de Zürich	87,74	Silver
6	Switzerland	CCCL Cercle des Chefs de Cuisine Lucerne	87,65	Silver
7	Sweden	Skane Kulinar	87,08	Silver
8	SriLanka	Regional Team Sri Lanka	87	Silver
9	Canada	Culinary Team British Columbia	86,7	Silver
10	Sweden	Culinary Team West of Sweden	86,36	Silver
11	Switzerland	Gilde etabl. Schweizer Gastronomen	86,27	Silver
12	Canada	Team Manitoba	86	Silver
13	Canada	Reg. Team Prince Edward Island	85,08	Silver
14	Canada	Golden Horseshoe Culinary Team	84	Silver
15	Italy	Team Veneto Chef	81,08	Silver
16	Canada	Trillium Chefs Canada Team A	80,36	Silver
17	Canada	Quebec regional Team	78,1	Bronze
18	Italy	Campania Team	77,83	Bronze
19	Italy	Equipe ufficiale cuochi Emilia Romagna	77,56	Bronze
20	USA	The International Culinary School at the Art Institutes	77	Bronze
21	Italy	Culinary Team Palermo No 1	76,36	Bronze
22	Germany	Regionalmannschaft Niedersachsen	76	Bronze
23	USA	Regional Team Texas	75,02	Bronze
24	Czech	Republik Bidvest Gastro Team	73,63	Bronze
25	Italy	Culinary Team Palermo No 2	73,17	Bronze
26	Italy	Team Chef Regione Lombardia	72,61	Bronze
27	Germany	Regionalmannschaft LV Berlin-Brandenburg	72,4	Bronze
28	Lithuania	Amber Aliance	71,19	Bronze
29	Germany	Meistervereinigung Gastronom BW	71,16	Bronze
30	Croatia	City of Zagreb, Varazdin, Imurje & Istria County	70,23	Bronze
31	Montenegro	Montenegro Regional Team	69,41	Diplom
32	The Netherlands	Culinary Team Amsterdam	69,1	Diplom
33	Hungary	Mosonmagyarovar Culinary Team	68,56	Diplom
34	Croatia	Region Dalmacia	68,05	Diplom
35	Poland	Pomerania Culinary team of Poland	68	Diplom
36	Romania	Regional Team of Bucharest	68	Diplom
37	Serbia	Serbian Regional Culinary Team	67	Diplom
38	Poland	Consus Art Culinary Poland	66	Diplom
39	Belgium	PIVA Culinary Team Antwerp	65,43	Diplom
40	Italy	Team Savona	64	Diplom
41	Germany	Euroturk Chefs Culinary team	62,79	Diplom
42	Croatia	Region Hvar	61	Diplom
43	Germany	Regionalmannschaft LV Bayern	59,11	Diplom
44	Moldova	Regional Team Moldavia	58,84	Diplom
45	Canada	Aboriginal Culinary Team Canada	58	Diplom
46	Romania	Regional Team Moldova - A.C.E.E.A.	57,77	Diplom

CAVAS RECAREDO

To visit Spain and especially Sant Sadurni d`Anoia is always nice and very rewarding.

One of the great producers are Cava Recaredo and the great winemaker Ton Mata Moliner who is passionate about the product that he makes.

Recaredo is all Biodynamic and makes only cavas without dosage, all bone dry that shows great complexity and depth from the terroir.

Brut nature and brut de brut are all amazing wines that is some of the best produced cavas and you can buy them online at

 http://www.invinitum.com/product.html/cava-recaredo-brut-d-brut-2003-gran-reserva-brut-nature?category_id=9

An great pleasure was also to meet his father who have so much history to tell and who is responsible for most of the plantings they use right now and also taste some barrel samples of Xarello that will be used for some experiments.

Ton is the third generation of this house that was started by his grandfather in 1924 and who was a well known football player in the team Espaniol but even more as an true artist when it comes to disgorgement.

The house of Recardero does all of the remuage in racks by hand and all the vinification, aging and bottling is made in the house and all the wines undergo second fermentation with cork stoppers witch is very unusual.

The house prestigious Cava is the one that they call TURO D`EN MOTA that is produced in very limited quantity with single grape variety (xarello) that was planted in 1940 of just 0,97 Hectares.

The 2002 that I tasted was disgorged on the spot by Jose and served in cellar temperature.

After spending 120 months on lees it shoved great complexity and very creamy texture, this must be one of the most special cavas I have ever tasted, thanks Ton for letting me try this one.

This week Recardero will be in Stockholm and also in Malmö on Thursday so take the time and go to this special tastings that he will have here. contact Invinitum regarding this tastings.