To Cork or Not To Cork (Book Review)
To Cork or Not To CorkThe market for wine-bottle closures is a $4 billion battlefield where an epic confrontation is now taking place. George Taber, from To Cork or Not To …
To Cork or Not To CorkThe market for wine-bottle closures is a $4 billion battlefield where an epic confrontation is now taking place. George Taber, from To Cork or Not To …
I don’t like to parrot other reviewers but in this one, it can’t be helped: this is a blackberry overdrive machine. Toss in some licorice for fuel, and this velvet monkey …
Okay, so at $89.99, this doesn’t exactly fall into the value category of holiday wines. But remember, it’s also 17 years old. So when you do the math, that’s a mere …
Why does Arenberg sell this wine for so little? Why sell a bottle of wine for under $20 when so many people are happy to spend over $30? Even the critics …
International Wine Cellar, notoriously the most difficult of the major wine-review publications, called this bottling “fully mature and delicious.” To that, we would also add “guilt-inducingly affordable” and “dangerously drinkable.”
There are plenty of well-made wines priced under $15, and these are a sampling of the best of the best. Even better, you should be able to find most of these …
For a full list of wine recommendations, check out our wine review page. Ravenswood Monte Rosso Vineyard Zinfandel, Sonoma ValleyA definite must-buy for Zin drinkers. Dense and full-bodied, the wine uncorks …
For those of you in a wine course, a great novel to dive into while blind tasting is Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. Highsmith’s protagonist is the very sordid yet …
If you’ve read any of the wine reviews I’ve posted over the last couple of years, you are well aware of my fondness for the unusual, the eccentric, and the downright …
I was in Baltimore over Labor Day weekend and thought it would be a good time to have dinner at Charleston. I had worked with Chef Cindy Wolf over a decade …
There has been an ongoing conversation about ethics regarding wine writing. Specifically, wine reviews. Should a (well-known) critic and his or her colleagues take samples and/or go on junkets that have …
It’s been a month since the holidays and I’m just now going over my notes for some of the wines consumed during those festive evenings, and some of the bottles subsequently emptied …
A lovely cool-weather chardonnay. Asian five-spice and fresh pears dominate the nose. Apple and stones pop across on the tongue, reminiscent of a Chablis with a beer belly. At $9, this …
From the Capcanes cooperative in the Montsant region of Catalonia, this straightforward blend of 80% old vines Garnacha and 20% Syrah is a deep purple color that thins out to light …
A decent little bottle of Zin for the price. I add this wine to my “best buy” section with great hesitation. The last time I reviewed a Pedroncelli wine, it was …
Those of you who have consistently read reviews of Italian wines on this site are aware of a bias toward traditional wines that do not cater to notions of standardization. That …