Trentham Noble Taminga (Australian dessert wine) Tasting

Finally I tried this wine while eating chocolate fondue with my sister. The color is yellowish orange color may be because it's late harvested wine type. The smell is similar like orange peeling with an apricot from the fruit can. When I first sip the wine it reminded me of summer taste later on the taste texture was more into honey and apricot with enough sour taste but at the end I can fell a hint of bitterness.

Very easy-to-drink wine, not too sweet yet not too sour either its just enough and good. However the wine was finishing soon since it came with a small bottle but after all it's quite cheap compare to other dessert wine, and this wine is good to drink at a summer day.

International Wine Affair from Carrefour in Suntec city from 21th-31th May 2009

At least after the waiting carrefour wine affair is starting again, but can see from the pictures that it just a 2nd day but not too many crowd around. Also I found out that they reduce their wine selections this year, well it said that it's for international wines but I couldn't find the Greek wine like the wine affair before and it turned out that no discount for those greek dessert wines so no wonder it don't show in the exhibition. This wine affair is mostly the France wines from many regions but I hardly recognize any sauternes (Bordeaux dessert wine) but instead I saw many of expensive red wines from different regions there.



















Well actually it doesn't allow to take a picture inside which I just found out after the guard told me if i want to take a picture I can do that outside, but the heck he didn't tell me the reason why and I didn't feeling upset either so I stopped taking pictures, after all this wine affair is not really attracting to me.

Mostly the wines shown are common labels like Wolf Bass, Long flat from Australia, Montana from New Zealand, Moscato d'asti from italy, also other wine label from Spain, Africa, Germany, America, etc.

Not much price different for the wine from the price before discount in this wine affair. Btw I also tried 'MONTANA" ice wine and it tasted sour and a bit bitter it just not my taste, I thought Ice wine is supposed to be sweet but this ice wine tasted awful for me instead.

The last day of this affair is until 31st of may, so no need to rush to go there because there will be no huge crowd (may be it's different story on weekend) I suppose.

Trentham Noble Taminga (Australian dessert wine) on Sale in Market place until 27th May 2009 (UPDATE)

When I went to Market place in Raffles place today I found out that Trentham Noble Taminga (Australian Dessert wine) is on sale from S$30.5 becomes S$16.95. Hurry and grab the wine. The bottle is 375ml.

I wonder why wine cellar in Market Place, Raffles Place is better compare to the one in Paragon. They also have a very special cool room for the dessert wines and special expensive wines like ice wines and champagne. Note also that the dessert Greek wine has few types there like Samos Grand cru S$44, Casa Nectar (really sweet wine I suppose) S$46, Casa Anthemis S$ 48.85 (the color is like a rose wine, not sure about the taste though). Samos is a city in Greek.
I Also Found "Moscato D'Asti" at S$31++, it is a famous dessert wine from Italy.

What is good about these wines is it come with 750ml bottle unlike the small 375 ml the usual dessert wine bottle.

There are another 2 types of red dessert Greek wine there, "Domain Toplou" and " Tsantali" (the wine type is mavrodaphne) the price range is about S$36++ for Tsantali and S$48.6 for Domain Toplou, relatively cheaper compare to Samos wine. Mavrodaphne is a red wine variety used to make dessert fortified wine. MarketPlace is a good store to look for dessert wines in supermarket in Singapore.

I saw a very expensive Sauternes wine price about S$115++, different with Carrefour which the sauternes wines are relatively affordable.

Also found MALESAN BORDEAUX medium sweet wine for S$28.95. Well the wines in Market place are almost similar with cold storage it just that they have more ranges of wine.