Category Archives: Munskänkarna

Moulin Touchais 1949-1999

Posted on October 11, 2015 by vintomas

Just over a year ago, in September 2014, I led a vertical tasting of Moulin Touchais with Munskänkarna in Stockholm, a wine tasting club. Moulin Touchais is a sweet wine from the Coteaux du Layon appellation in the middle part of the … Continue reading →

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Champagne tasting including a first look at 2005 Dom Pérignon

Posted on June 12, 2015 by vintomas

A large wine tasting club I’m active in, Munskänkarna in Stockholm, arranges a Champagne tasting every year in May. This tasting is in an “open” format, where the participants taste the wines two at a time (with a sub-theme for each pair) in their own pace. This year’s … Continue reading →

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Mixed news including several Burgundies

Posted on May 26, 2015 by vintomas

A couple of weeks ago, the Stockholm branch of the wine tasting club Munskänkarna held a tasting of news in the range of the Swedish alcohol monopoly. Although I sometimes lead tastings in Munskänkarna, I was not guilty of choosing the … Continue reading →

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Selosse tasting including the 2003 vintage and two Lieux-Dits

Posted on January 3, 2015 by vintomas

In the end of February last year I held a tasting in a wine tasting club (Munskänkarna in Stockholm) featuring Champagnes from Jacques Selosse, the most sought-after of all small producers in Champagne, and since many years the foremost source … Continue reading →

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Tasting of mixed new releases with a few heavy-duty Super Tuscans included

Posted on December 27, 2014 by vintomas

Earlier in December I tasted a selection of recent releases on the Swedish market. This type of “purchase a ticket and taste the wines at your own pace”-tasting is arranged a number of times per year by a Munskänkarna, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon, California, Champagne, Chardonnay, Grenache, Merlot, Munskänkarna, Port, Sherry, Syrah, Tuscany | 1 Comment

Mixed March news including three 2010 Syrahs and three Pinots

Posted on March 8, 2014 by vintomas

This Monday I attended a wine club tasting of March news from our dear Swedish alcohol monopoly Systembolaget. (Well, to me it as about as dear as the bread queues were to the good people of the Soviet union.) This … Continue reading →

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Some course wines from Germany and Alsace

Posted on February 27, 2014 by vintomas

A couple of weeks ago I held one of the classes in a basic wine course in the Stockholm chapter of the wine tasting organisation Munskänkarna. The class covered Alsace and Germany, and in these classes we try to show a couple of typical wines … Continue reading →

Posted in Alsace, Gewürztraminer, Mosel, Munskänkarna, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Riesling | 1 Comment

Jura wines from Château d’Arlay

Posted on December 29, 2013 by vintomas

During the autumn I attended a tasting with one of the leading producers of the Jura region in France, Château d’Arlay, led by count Alain de La Guiche himself, who was in Stockholm to promote his wines, thanks to their Swedish … Continue reading →

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Mixed wines – “December news”

Posted on December 8, 2013 by vintomas

This was a news tasting of various wines that only had that in common that they were lauched as news (in their current vintage or release) in the Swedish monopoly stores at the start of December. This government-controlled monopoly has, … Continue reading →

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Small grower Champagne tasting, featuring some of the new generation of growers

Posted on December 1, 2013 by vintomas

Mid-October I arranged a tasting of small grower Champagne that focussed on some better growers in this category. Some of those included were by now rather well-known names, and some were those that have emerged only in recent years. The … Continue reading →

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