The last few posts have focused on wines from Spain. It’s not a complete coincidence. It seems as though Spain might be a special destination later this year. It’s not the kind of trip you get to take every year, so I have been trying to do my research. As part of that research, I [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Mas des Bressades Roussanne-Viognier 2007
Posted in France, Recommended, Uncategorized, Value Pick, Wine Events, Wine Importers, tagged MacArthur Beverages, Mas des Bressades, Mas des Bressades Roussanne-Viognier 2007, Robert Kacher on December 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mas des Bressades is considered by many as one of the top estates in Costières de Nîmes, located 35 miles southwest of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, on the western side of the Rhône. Cyril Marès has been the winemaker since 1996. He previously worked for Chalone in California and Bruno Prats in Chile. His wife, Natalie Blanc, owns [...]
Villa Carafa Campi Flegrei Falanghina 2003
Posted in Italy, Recommended, tagged Falanghina, Villa Carafa on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I uncovered this wine while I was moving. I actually didn’t think much about it and opened it without many expectations. That began to change as soon as I poured it into a glass. The wine was a beautiful, deep golden straw in color. The nose was also impressive, filled with floral elements with white [...]
Godolphin 2004
Posted in Australia, tagged Ben Glaetzer, Godolphin on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Parker rated this wine 96-98+ points. In his tasting notes, he remarked: This nearly perfect wine, made from 70% Shiraz (105- to 115-year-old vines) and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon (60- to 90-year-old vines), was cropped at a minuscule .5 to 1 ton of fruit per acre, and spent 15 months in French oak prior to bottling. [...]
Blog DNA, Content Profile, Tag Bouquet, Word Cloud….Wordle!
Posted in Misc, tagged Wordle on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wordle is a new online application for generating “word clouds”– the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I simply entered the url of my blog feed and it created my own word cloud based on the content of my posts. I first read about Wordle on change.gov. [...]
Pierre Gaillard Condrieu 2006
Posted in France, Recommended, tagged Condrieu, Pierre Gaillard, Rhone, Viognier on December 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“All of Pierre’s wines are a testament to the know-how of Gaillard and there is not a single weakness in the bunch.” ~La Revue du Vins de France 2007 Someone wrote that Pierre’s wines win hearts in their youth, but lack for nothing in terms of future potential. His winemaking approach seems to be rooted [...]
