One word: Delicious. If you’re one for lovin’ on sweet-ish, juicy smackin’, full-bodied reds, RUN, don’t walk, to pick up this bottle.
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I’m not sure what they’re thinking trying to sell a $18-$20 sauvignon blanc in this economy, but I’d pay that for it since I’ve tasted it. Here I am jumping up and down, trying to tell you that Ed Sbragia is frickin’ brilliant. Brilliant, I tell you. Read more: Wine review: Sbragia 2009 Sauvignon Blanc Home Ranch So this might be one of the times you can accuse riesling of being sweet. Not cloying and sugary, but sweet like being kissed lightly on the cheek and offering you a gourmet meal. The good kind of sweet. Buried Cane, an affordable line of wines from Washington State, is virtually unknown but it’s slowly making its way through the maze of wholesalers throughout the country. Read more: Wine review: Buried Cane 2007 Riesling Washington This pinot pioneer winery was started by Dick Erath in the early 70′s. I visited Erath early in my wine career and had the fortune of staying at their winery guesthouse while in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. On the Saturday we stayed there, the toilet backed up and Dick Erath himself (a true rock star legend at this point) showed up to fix it. Jaws dropped, swooning ensued and a pride overcame me. You have GOT to respect that. Read more: Wine review: Erath 2008 Pinot Noir Oregon Crafted by two young brothers in the “new world” fashion, this beautifully complex malbec has received exultant praise from the industry. And it’s well-deserved. Hector and Pablo Durigutti have many years ahead of them and I can’t imagine this wine getting much better. But maybe it can? Sign me up. Read more: Wine review: Durigutti 2007 Malbec Mendoza You might think this hails from a Gaelic land, but no red grape as good as this grows there. McLaren Vale, a region in Southeast Australia, is producing some outstanding grenache wines, including this hedonistic and decadent example. Argentina has been a revival ground for many funky grapes. Malbec was all but forgotten in France before it saw a renaissance in the Mendoza region. The grape is happier there, without the misery of Bordeaux’s unpredictable and often gloomy climate. And with this same terroir, Mendoza is doing it again, but this time with an esoteric Italian grape called Bonarda. Read more: Wine review: Broquel 2006 Bonarda Mendoza Ok, so the name sucks, but the wine doesn’t. This juicy, perfumey wine is named after France’s 337 cabernet sauvignon clone. In the world of grapes, “clone” is a term used for naturally-occurring (sometimes mutating) genetic subtypes of the same grape variety. I’ve noticed I prefer the esoteric wines from the Coppola collection, not that that should surprise me… I’m always a bit on the weird side. People go batty for their cabernet, chardonnay, merlot, etc. but their alicante bouchet, Rosso and now Petite Sirah (some spell it Syrah… same thing) intrigue me. Read more: Coppola 2007 Diamond Petite Sirah California |
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