 Fight! Fight! Fight! Dance! Dance! We have another wine tasting face-off video today. We have some super classy, super expensive Italy versus Slovenia Bordeaux blends. Learn all about it. Sharon's going to be tasting them blind in this video. Hello! Hello! Hello! Welcome back to exotic wine travel. The show that helps you drink adventurously so you can expand your palate, expand your mind. I'm your host, Matthew Horkey. Hi, I'm Sharon Tan. Welcome back to the show. I am super excited. Now, like, this show is for us. The show, we do a lot for you. This show is really for us because we are drinking some class, and I probably will not even spit. We are drinking some classy, classy wines today. A lot of people like our wine tasting face-off videos. A lot of you like them, so we're doing another one. This time, it's Italy versus its neighbor. Slovenia. Slovenia! Italy, well, world-renowned for some of the most delicious, some of the greatest wines in the world. Neighboring Slovenia, producing some serious juice, too. Watch out, don't have that. But you're right. I'm not you, you know. And, you know, Italy is full of... You're right, you're right. Italy is full of all these unique indigenous grapes, so what? But we're going to taste Bordeaux blends today. Whether you think, you know, French grapes in Italy should be there or should not be... That's the discussion for another time, regardless. They're really good Bordeaux blends in Italy. Yeah, everyone would. Yeah, Slovenia, too. So that's what we're doing. We're matching up with... Slovenia always doesn't have the same grapes as Italy, although they do share some because they're borders. But we're going to do Bordeaux blends. Serious Bordeaux blends. Super high scores in international press. Some of these wines are iconic worldwide. Some more on a regional level. You ready to get started? Let's go for it. I'm very excited. I don't know what we are tasting at all. And I can't just... I keep smiling when I look into the camera because your hair is kind of like growing right to the very edge of the frame. And it's so funny. We should play... We should play that the Lady Gaga song. I'm on the edge. Okay, so... Tonde. Okay, so... Let's get to tasting some of these wines. Cherine saw maybe a couple that came in, but there's so many wines coming in and out you really haven't... I don't pay attention seriously. Okay, so... What did I do here? I actually used my Corvin Model 6. I Corvin all five wines into separate glasses. Let them to can't for about 45 minutes. Put them in the box behind me so Cherine can't see. You're going to taste. You're going to tell me what you like. And then we're going to do the big reveal. Let's go for it. Okay, let's get started here. First... Oh, by the way, we do have... We do have a discount code for all Corvin systems and accessories. I'll put it in the description box. You can get 10% off. That's what helps make these tastings possible, because these are some super expensive wines. Let's go for it. You ready to rock? Wine number one. Now all these are Bordeaux grapes. Grapes that are permitted in Bordeaux. Not all the same vintages. And this is, you know, not about comparing vintages, not all the same blends, but we're just talking about quality here. Italian wine. You think it's Italian, huh? Why do you think that? Because it's a little bit balsame. It's a little bit... You can see that it's a little bit rustic. I may be wrong. Tobacco. Yeah. This is really good. But is the rusticity bothering you? No, no, no. To me, it's too... I may be wrong, like I said, but I'm sorry that's a lie. To me, this is like classic Italian wine with this. You know, it has a little bit of volatile acidity, but it expresses itself so nicely on the nose with like this balsamic quality. Serious though. Yeah. Serious stuff. It smells pretty thick, concentrated on the nose. Juannate. I love the tannins here. Tannins is all over the mouth that sits kind of in the middle, quite heavily. More firm, just a little bit of astringency. Great tannins management for me. It shows maybe a little bit of Bottle Age, dark cherry fruits, tobacco, cedar, serious stuff. Is that a good start? That's a very good start. So... This must be quite an expensive wine. I mean, often, you know, I always talk about expensive or expensive management and sometimes people ask me what do you mean by that? I think when you taste a lot, you also can kind of get it. It's just really subtle flavors, good tannins, sweetness, not too oxidized. All the wines are expensive. And we have no stickiness, right? Some of the wines you could hate, these are really all highly rated wines. Some you could hate, some you could love, right? What do you think? This one is more less oxidized than the first one. It tastes a little bit, maybe even potentially a little bit cooler. It's got... So the first one kind of expresses itself with like this sweet like tobacco and a little bit of this savory quality that I'm only guessing that it's coming from oak. But this one linseed was more vanilla, fruity, cherry. This shows a lot more finesse to me than this one. This one's a little burlier. So it's a little bit more finesse. Classic Bordeaux, you know, style nose. For me, the tannins are super slick on this. Okay. I think the first one is a more expensive wine as well. You think so? Okay. Let's move on to number three. Okay. It can get better at all, I think. When I was co-revening these, I tried not... I didn't smell them. I didn't smell them in the glass because I wanted to wait for this. I do know what they are. Shareen doesn't. But the aromas were just filling the room and I was like, damn, this is going to be a serious tasting. Let's give this a smell here. Nice. I like this a lot. It's got a little bit of capsicum. This is more Bordeaux, Bordeaux. I would just say it's cooler to me. More capsicum, more leafiness, more greeniness. Papery. This is really papery concept to this, too. This is really bringing some serious thunder here. I really like this one. Allegum. Tannins are... So, the first one has a stronger tannin. The second one doesn't have much tannin at all. It's more smoothed out. This one has a perfect level for me. This is really sitting in the middle palette. More bottle development. More fruit. More earthiness. More earthiness and cool climate, like capsicum, like notes. Right? This is very complex wine. Let's move on to wine number four. Are you liking this so far, by the way? I'm very quite blown away by this one. Really? Okay. Number four here. Let's give this a go. I like this. Oh. Tomato leaf type deal. A little bit elder-hidden though. A little bit. And not bad. Like dried fruit, maybe? It's quite sweet, but it's... Yeah, lean to it, elder-hidden. Tomato leaf. This is almost like if I smoke cigars maybe once a year. If I took the ash tray and I kind of licked the ash. Oh my gosh, it tastes like cigar. You agree, right? Is that a bad thing or a good thing? I think this is a wine that a lot of people would like. I know all my Singaporean friends would like it. This is their classic wine because my friends in Singapore, a lot of them love like amurone, bigger wine. And this is like what Croatians say, Toyota, this is it. Oh, you like it a lot? No, I prefer the third one still. This is not my wine, but I can see why a lot of people would like it. This palette is a lot more finessed than the nose. The nose I would think would just be a bomb, right? Wine number five. How fun is this, by the way? Is that... No, it's not fun? No, it's fun. It's just... You're funny. Exhaust feeling. And I spilled it on you. Handy... Shhh. Sorry. Okay. I just don't like messy table. I can't eat from messy table. I can't drink from messy table. For me, aesthetic is really important when it comes to food and wine. Oh, interesting. Interesting in a good way or a bad way? You know, when people say interesting, it's not always good. Yeah, imagine if someone comes to you and say, oh, I think you are an interesting person. Or like, oh, you are a nice person. Or you're not like a grossest guy. Oh, you're nice. He's a nice guy. Nothing better to say. Awesome, awesome. This is the... This is the oakiest out of all, in the sense that the oak comes on very clearly as like something cherry and toasty. The toasted oak comes through in a good way. It's not over-oaked to me. I think the fruit can handle. I get a lot of black plum, red raspberry, black cherry type of flavors. Interesting. Good? Not good. I quite like it in on. I wasn't so interested in the nose. I'm quite... I don't really like wine that expresses this like toasty, dry wood kind of smell. But taste is really good. Mothiness. Nice tendons on the finish. I really can kind of feel the oak tendon. We can't tell, we can never tell. But there is this spiller on the finish with very nice tendons on the finish. A little bit dry. Oh, you have to put them in order. Which ones you prefer? Oh, one to five, really? Yes. Okay. Make her work a little bit. I love number three. It's so complex, so elegant. It's hard to, it's hard for you to decide, huh? All the wines are good, huh? All right. Ready to reveal? What's in... Sitting back and relaxing. What's in fifth? Because the wine is so good, right? What's fifth place for you? Number four. So in fifth place, number four, Yak and Chit's Carolina Select 2013, the most expensive Slovenian wine on the market. $170 US dollars, 2011. Got 93 points. Robert Parker, we've had every vintage of this wine. Come on. I think you're a little bit hard on this wine. I think it was, but it was still good. Because you're at least favorite. It's still good, though. Like I said, personally, it's not a wine for me, but I thought that this is absolutely, among all of these wines, this would have been the proper favorite. You did say that's a crowd favorite. So this wine, actually, in a blind tasting in China, beat up Masetto, beat up Patrus, that type of stuff. Because it's 93% Merlot, 7% Cabernet, 71% not made every vintage. I think it's only the fifth or sixth vintage. Dad, you know what? If I had a taste of wine, I would have been biased because I really like this wine in general. Blind tasting. Yeah, this is cool. Okay. What's the next one? What's in fourth place for you? This is no shame. I have to let you know. This is no shame in this game because these are all pedigreed wines. Okay. So, okay. Let's go to the next one. What's your next one? Number five. Number five is your... I think I'm going to be drunk by the end. So, here we go. What kind of score do you think it is? Don't look. Everything is in a 98. I don't know whether the wine is getting better or I'm getting more and more tipsy. This was just recently named number one in Forbes Italy top 10 reds with Bordeaux, Italy and everything. This is the Marian Simchich, Apoka, Trubno Crew 2015. 100% Merlot. I am not cheating because Patrice, some of the great, great banks are 100% Merlot. 50, around 50 US dollars. This is the one that's the most oaky, right? Yeah, yeah. I could kind of tell. And it was way, in a good... This was really, really good stuff. I think it was 60 US dollars, 100% Merlot. Okay. 60 US dollars? No, that's great. Yeah. That's really great. Don't look. Okay, what's your next wine? Number one. Number one was in third place. The most rustic one out of all. I didn't cheat with this. I wanted to add Movie of Valico Arvici but it has Pinot Noir. So, I couldn't. So, number one is in... Italian. So, number one is Italian. This is the one I had to put in foil because I showed you on the video earlier. So, number one, not score. Coming in at 50 US dollars. 80% Merlot, 10% Cabernet 70, and 10% Cabernet Franch. It is not Italian. It is the Edison. Just do it, Lex. 2015. This is one of the iconic wines. These are all three iconic Slovenian wines. This right here. Oh, do it Lex 16. It's not 15. I won't be allowed to go back to Slovenia. No, 16. This is kind of... It's so funny. It's 60 bucks. They make two higher rins. Cosana Merlot and Colos that are about 115 bucks. I actually really like this wine. A lot of the rusticity, everything. I like the Burley rins. Yeah, I thought it was so... From a professional perspective when I take myself out of the picture, I actually think Carolina would be higher than Edison. But my personal preference is Edison. No, man. Ah, this is hot. Okay. So, number... So... Okay. I think this one will be one point lesser than all of this. Okay. Even though I like this better. You have to hurry. I feel like I'm getting it forward. Okay. Next one. Number two. So, number two. What's your second favorite? Number two. Iconic. Iconic wine produced by the late Giacomo Tacchis who created Sasakaya, Tinianella, and Solaya. This is the 2018 Fattoria Le Coupilé, Saffredi, Kevroni Savignon, Petit Verdeau Merlot from Morema, 96 points, Robert Parker, 60 to 90 US dollar. I thought you would like more than this because I think the tans are super low. Oh, 100% have no doubt number three is my favorite. So, okay. Number three. What kind of score you would give? At least 94. I think 94 points, probably. Okay. So, this is a classic from Northern Italy. The Tanuta San Leonardo, San Leonardo 2015. It's about 60 US dollars. This is 60% Kevroni Savignon, 30% Carmanere, 10% Merlot, around 60 bucks. Here's the kicker. 95 points, Venice. 94 to 97 points, Robert Parker. Going to one thing right, there is really such a thing as your personal palette. I know a lot of people. I do also sometimes think that there's no such a thing as personal palette because some people just don't have a very trained palette when it comes to not just wine but food as well. And it's not criticism because it's a privilege to actually have a trained palette. You need to eat a lot, you need to travel a lot and all that. But when it comes to the higher quality wine often, when it comes to like this like 92 to 96 points, 97.1, he has a lot, a lot to do with the individual like personal preference. I would score, I would score. She's tougher than me. I would score all five of these a little bit higher than you did. But whatever. This was a lot of fun. I think we're going to do more videos like this where I give you the wines blind, you tell me everything like that, right? I think I can visit a lot of wineries after this. So guys, I can tell you got a little tipsy as we got going because you were sitting on the pillow up above my level and you gradually went down. So guys. 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