The father and daughter team of Joseph and Silvia Puig named their winery Odysseus in honor of the Greeks who first brought vines to Spain. Odysseus makes Garnacha Tinta based reds, as virtually all of the producers in Priorat, but they have attracted the most attention for their Garnacha Blanca. This is a White Priorat [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Viñedos de Ithaca Odysseus Garnacha Blanca Priorat 2008
Posted in Recommended, Spain, tagged Garnacha Blanca, Joseph Puig, Odysseus, Priorat, Silvia Puig, Viñedos de Ithaca, Vinos Unico on October 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
New Weygandt Wines Store in DC
Posted in Recommended, Retailers and Websites, tagged Peter Weygandt, Weygandt, Weygandt Wines, Weygandt Wines Store, Weygandt Wines Store in DC, Weygandt-Metzler on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The newest wine store in DC is also the best and one of the best in the United States. New York has Chambers Street Wines and Astor Wines, LA has the Wine Exchange, Berkeley has Kermit Lynch — and now Weygandt Wines put DC on the map with a truly great wine store. There isn’t [...]
Domaine Gramenon Côtes du Rhône Blanc Vie on y Est 2008
Posted in France, Recommended, tagged Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Blanc Vie on y Est, Domaine Gramenon, Kermit Lynch on October 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I have written before, Domaine Gramenon is one of the most respected producers in the Rhône. In Robert Parker’s book on the wines of the Rhône valley, he classified Gramenon in the same category as Beaucastel and Fonsalette. In 1998, owner Phillipe Laurent nearly doubled the area of his vineyards by purchasing some 50 [...]
Mourges du Gres Terre d’Argence Blanc 2007
Posted in France, Recommended, tagged Costières de Nîmes, Mourges du Gres, Mourges du Gres Terre d'Argence Blanc 2007 on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mourges du Gres is a 98 acre estate is owned and meticulously run by Anne and François Collard. François decided to come back to the family estate in 1990 and bottled his first red wine in 1993. The terroir is made up of ‘de galets’ called gres. The vineyards flat pebbles protect the soil from [...]
Château Pesquié Côtes du Ventoux Terrasses 2007
Posted in France, Recommended, Value Pick, tagged Côtes du Ventoux, Château Pesquié, Eric Solomon on October 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Château Pesquié is one of the Côtes du Ventoux’s top and most storied estates. There is evidence of vine cultivation at Château Pesquié that dates to two thousand years. In the early 1970’s, Odette & René Bastide, bought Château Pesquié from an heir of the famous Provençal writer, Alphonse Daudet. They were wine pioneers of [...]
Escaravailles Côtes du Rhônes 2007 & 2008
Posted in France, Recommended, Value Pick, tagged Côtes du Rhône, Escaravailles, Escaravailles Côtes du Rhône Cuvée Les Sablieres 2007, Escaravailles Côtes du Rhône Le Ponce Blanc 2008, Escaravailles Côtes du Rhône Les Antimagnes 2007, Gilles Ferran, Philippe Cambie on October 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Updated on October 1, 2009 with notes on the Escaravailles Côtes du Rhône Le Ponce Blanc 2008. Domaine des Escaravailles belongs to the Ferran family for three generations. It was brought by Gilles Ferran’s Grandfather, Jean-Louis Ferran in 1953. He called his new estate “Escaravailles,” the Occitan word for beetles and nickname for the black-robed [...]
