August 30, 2019
A nice Pinot Noir usually has a lot going on; flavors of strawberries, cherries, a little vanilla – stuff like that. I find a nice Pinot really enjoyable. I’d love to get more [...]
August 8, 2019
Charles Smith is an amazing wine maker. His reds, and especially his Syrahs, are legendary, with some fetching $250/bottle. But let’s focus on some of his other wines, starting with [...]
August 1, 2019
Ask any wine geek, “Who makes the best zinfandel?” and the answer will almost always come back, “Turley.” And if you ask who makes the best [...]
July 25, 2019
Cameron Hughes is a wine negotiant; i.e., he blends other vintners’ “juice” and bottles the result with his label, or he bottles others’ finished/blended wine [...]
July 18, 2019
Almost-too-good-to-be-true Garnacha/Syrah red blend from Spain for how much? You’ve just got to be kidding! [...]
July 11, 2019
Jean-Marc Lafage is an incredible wine maker, first, because his wines are SO good, and, second, because they offer extraordinary value. Let's start with [...]
June 27, 2019
I’ve been buying Jeff Carrel’s Les Darons for ten years or so. It is unquestionably one of the [...]
May 23, 2019
So you open a bottle of red wine and don’t finish it. Maybe you’ll drink some more in two or three days; maybe you won’t. You can go out [...]
May 23, 2019
Many red-wine lovers regard Bordeaux reds as the best there are. Certainly, many of them are marvelous, but most of those seem to cost an arm and a leg. Not anymore. [...]