Wine
The good news: This is still great cheap wine, and a member of the $10 Hall of Fame. The bad news: The 2009 isn’t as interesting as the 2007 and 2008. I’m not sure if i[...]
18 May 2011
During the Australian wine boom last decade, one of the big wine companies thought it would be clever to pair a top Aussie winemaker with a leading California winemaker. The result[...]
11 May 2011
The two most unappreciated wines in the wine world are rose and sparkling wine. Don’t believe me? Check the sales data: Nielsen doesn’t even track rose, which is appare[...]
04 May 2011
• The one thing I didn’t like about the Villa Maria ($13, sample, widely available): It’s not $9 any more. Stupid weak dollar. • Best thing about the wine besides the t[...]
27 Apr 2011
First and foremost, if you know what Mom likes, give it to her. [...]
22 Apr 2011
Tag A rosé for mom?
Regular visitors here know that I’m quite skeptical about what I call post-modern zinfandel. Those are the ones with higher alcohol, that feature way over the top fruit, and [...]
20 Apr 2011
Let’s get the full disclosure out of the way first. Maria Martinez-Sierra, the winemaker at Bodegas Montecillo in Spain’s Rioja, is one of my favorite people in the win[...]
06 Apr 2011
There is a flaw with this wine. It doesn’t have a screwcap. Otherwise, it’s pretty close to a perfect $10 wine. Some two years ago, the Notorius was the first great, ch[...]
23 Mar 2011
There’s an old joke among people who don’t like red wine: The reason they don’t like it is because all red wine tastes the same.[...]
22 Mar 2011
I’m never quite sure what to make of the Layer Cake wines. A year-old review of the shiraz on my wine blog was one of its most popular posts in 2010, and it’s still get[...]
16 Mar 2011
Bogle Vineyards has been, for more than a decade, perhaps the pre-eminent cheap wine producer in the United States. The wines are not just well made, but have style and quality far[...]
09 Mar 2011
The Italians continue to amaze. Much of the rest of their wine business may be in crisis, with too much expensive wine made to taste too much like it doesn’t come from Italy,[...]
02 Mar 2011
