(Photo ©Michael Kelly) Opened this up the evening on the eve of the 6thAnnual International Cabernet Franc Wine Competition. It had been sitting in the cellar for over one year. I was pleased, startled and in awe of this wonderful wine. On the eyes, a dark and brooding brick and pur...
V Sanjay Kumar opens several bottles of Brunello and arrives at the happy conclusion that he has a decent cellar In my early experience with wine, vintage wasn’t a factor when I bought a bottle. … New Issue: From the Editor, Reva K. Singh ...
half of that. There seems to be something about a dusty old wine cellar from the 1500s that leads winemakers to ease up on extraction. (Although I feel sorry for the workers. At several wineries I asked: "How do you move the barrels from there?" Portaro said: "It's very hard to ...
It is kind of extreme terroir and the cellar treatment is distinctive, too. The result is a wine that Sue said she wouldn’t have guessed to be a Riesling. Lots of minerality, a whiff of petrol that quickly disappeared. Fascinating and delicious. Kinda wild, too. Worth seeking out as ...
“That’s pretty much when Mourvèdre clicked for me.” The Walnut Creek native had just graduated Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in finance, but he didn’t want an office gig. Pease started in the tasting room at Linne Calodo in 2006, and quickly moved to the cellar. “...
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More than that, today marks the arrival of a mature American wine culture, where producers are confident enough not to mimic the Old World or obscure the nuances of terroir with clever cellar work, but rather seek greatness in a uniquely American context. That is the wonderful reality of the...
It is kind of extreme terroir and the cellar treatment is distinctive, too. The result is a wine that Sue said she wouldn’t have guessed to be a Riesling. Lots of minerality, a whiff of petrol that quickly disappeared. Fascinating and delicious. Kinda wild, too. Worth seeking out as ...
Dry. Fine structure: sleek acidity, limber if a little raspy tannins. Long, tasty but a bit of a wallflower in comparison to its weirder flightmates. Will be interesting to see what time in the cellar brings. (Buy again? A bottle to spend time with now and another to revisit in 2022...
On the positive side of things, that first stinging cold snap also means that your humble Sleuth’s favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, is just around the bend. And what a better time to take inventory of one’s wine cellar than to evaluate the best pairings for that most American of holiday...