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Filed under: Wine , Fall , Cocktail Hour , Wine of the Week Photo: Francois Mori/AP. Fall means shorter days and cooler nights. But you don't have to dig out the bold, heavy reds. Beaujolais is a wonderful transition wine. From the Beaujolais region just south of Burgundy, France, only Gamay grapes can be used. Drinking Beaujolais is like slipping into a light linen jacket, whereas Cabernet Sauvignon...
Out of all the things people do to enhance their wine experiences from having a cellar, to cooking food, to going to tasting group events or industry tastings, nothing beats traveling to a wine region and experiencing it for your self. From experience not only is the trip enjoyable and enriching, but the experience it allows with the producers’ wines upon return is the real meat of the deal,...
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Photos courtesy of Lieb Family Cellars A quick harvest update from Lieb Family Cellars marketing director, Melissa Schwartz: "We brought in 3 tons of merlot on Tuessday, November 3 around 3:30 p.m. The fruit came in...
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Rich Pisacano, co-owner of Roanoke Vineyards, is a cabernet sauvignon guy, and he and consulting winemaker Roman Roth make some of Long Island's most consistently good cabernet-based wines -- no small feat in a cool climate...
This weekend I journeyed along the Dutchess Wine Trail, a popular travel destination for wine lovers out East, which tours local vineyards along the gorgeous Hudson River Valley, just 90 miles north of New York City. To reach the most popular destination, Millbrook Vineyards , you must drive down a dusty road surrounded by fields overlooking the Hudson Valley. The standard wine tasting includes a...
I don't know about the chardonnay, but if Yosemite Road Cabernet, 7-Eleven's house brand , were a song, it'd be "Red, Red Wine." Not Neil Diamond's original. Or even Tony Tribe's excellent rocksteady version. It'd be the UB40 cover, because it's obvious, completely inoffensive, and in this case, on heavy rotation in my mom's place. At a recent "purse party," she secretly replaced...
The American legal system really is a mess. Whether it's the reluctance of the two parties in congress to address nominees for various federal courts or the constant tort claims, it seems that justice comes at an obscenely slow pace.One...
This wine presents with a youthful purple hue and a big plummy bouquet and loads of blackberry fruit with black licorice fragrance. Palate: It's a big juicy dark fruit bomb with ample fruit flavors and a nice texture with plush tannins and enough structure to carry this wine for quite a few more years. Speaking of which--the label says it should hold for 5 years. News flash: this wine will hold for...
Tis the season for squash and gourds. But more than looking at them as decoration, I prefer eating them. And for butternut squash, few ways are better than as ravioli with sage/butter sauce. So, which wine would you pair with these delicious, autumnal ravioli? I have some thoughts but will hold them for the comments. To [...]
A round-up of stories on Washington wine from November 1 st to 7 th . From around the country The Wall Street Journal recommends giving a case of syrah this Christmas. While they don't mention specific wineries (although the video shows a picture of Gramercy's Lagniappe Syrah), they write “There is not a more exciting wine on shelves right now…than Syrah from Washington.” Amen. The...
(NW) opened this wine on a recent trip to Boston. Made by "Wyland" the lable says it is a classic Tuscan blend yet I would not have pegged it as a Sangiovese in a thousand years. I thought it was a Zinfandel or maybe Petite Sirah with a beautiful black cherry hue and ripe blackberry, plum and dark fudge foundations. Palate: Robust, balanced, beautiful with nice big berry, blueberry and something...
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Sunday morning, I was joined by several New York Cork Report readers, other bloggers and their families to pick cabernet franc grapes at Raphael as a part of the 'Sonis Cellars 2009 harvest (read more about...
The year 2009 will be known for many things: notably the most difficult economic period of time since The Great Depression, a circumstance that has left little unaffected. However, less notably, 2009 will also be known as the year that our wine media intractably changed forever. Despite much virtual ink being spilled this year about mainstream wine writers and their amateur counterparts on the Internet...
Leading libel and defamation law firm, Russell Jones & Walker, has won a libel victory against publishers Random House on behalf of internationally renowned wine connoisseur Michael Broadbent, who was from 1966 until 1992 the head of Christie's wine department. The libel action centred on the book The Billionaire's Vinegar, the subject of which was the provenance of a number of bottles of wine said
Wine tastes different to those who are given information on the product before a wine tasting, tests where the test people received information on the wine before and after the tasting have shown. Many a wine grower trembles at the prospect of a visit from Robert Parker, one of the most famous wine critics in the world. His “Parker Points” have a similar impact to the Roman Emperor’s thumb, deciding
If you are in the market for fine German wine and food, why don't you consider the Pfalz region of southwestern Germany? Perhaps you will find a bargain, and I really hope that you'll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local Pinot Noir. German Wine,German Food,Pfalz Pinot Noir http://www.za77.org/Article/I-Love-German-Wine-and-Food----A-Pfalz-Pinot-Noir/12610