Featured Wines
The Bordeaux 2008 vintage is about to loom up on the horizon. The wines have all been bottled, and the bottles are resting quietly at the châteaux – read: stabilizing and maturing – before they will leave Bordeaux in the course of 2011. However, some bottles left earlier. They were opened at one of the [...]
I recently tasted a whole slew of inexpensive but unique wines that all fell into the $10 price range. While we all like to say that price is no indicator of quality in wine, that is true only to a point. It is common practice to look for your every day drinkers when pricing out [...]
The Story: I made a committment this year to explore a bit more of Italy. It is a daunting wine country with dozens of Denominazione di Origine Controllate e Garantita (DOCG) zones and literally hundreds of DOCs (just drop the Garantita). Add to this hundreds of native varietals that have not been adopted internationally, and [...]
