An unexpectedly good red California wine for $13 a bottle (An on line search may get you closer to $11, but you'll have to do your homework). For over three decades, Liberty School has been among the best values in California wine. That’s what this Liberty School 2008 Cab is all about.

Do you recall the California gold rush from your fourth grade history class? At the time, people from all over the world headed to Northern California to make it big. Today, Argentina is the "new California" and the new "gold" are vineyards planted in regions with the right soil, exposure, and access to water to assure quality wine.

He had a touching quest with his dad for 1996 Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne: An Oenophile and His Money: Is any bottle of wine worth $700? Sour Grapes: Why is there no such thing as a good, low-priced California wine? Fortunately, his writing will continue on his blog, WineDiarist.com. “ Why Sauvignon Blanc is overrated &#.

You won't spend more than $40 on recent vintages, and that's a pretty good deal for what I would say is among the very finest California Chardonnay. 1996 Didier Dagueneau Pouilly Fumé Pur Sang , price unknown. 1996 Cims de Porrera Priorat Classic , price unknown. If you haven't tried Stony Hill, you should.

In 1996, Concannon was the first Livermore Valley vineyard to place its land into a permanent conservation easement. California red wine Petite SirahLast year I reviewed a 2007 Petite Sirah from Concannon Vineyard , so I was delighted to recently receive the 2008 vintage. could not wait to open the 2008 Petite Sirah.

Everyone enjoyed the wine, and everyone was surprised when it was revealed to be a California Pinot Noir from 1976, a time when a lot of great wine was being made in California in the gently extracted and low alcohol old-world style. This past weekend I participated in one of the greatest wine events of my life.

On the palate, surprisingly light, with some fresh dark fruits left, and certainly quite pure in style, but not concentrated like the 1991 or 2002, and not esoteric like the 1996. Also tasted (blind): 2003 Ridge Vineyards California Mountain Merlot and 2005 Duckhorn Merlot Napa Valley Both very similar in style to the 2005 Monte Bello.

Something like 35 states allow grocery stores to sell wine, and California is one of them. will tell you, though, that from what I've seen on the shelves in California groceries, well managed wine shops have nothing to worry about. Tags: Trips California Fleury Wine economics just can't see it. That's wine specialist territory.

Now, a growing number of critics and consumers, including those in California, are openly wondering if the Napa Cabernet train has come off the rails: commentator Dan Berger, for one, last week dismissed California Cabernet as “little more than a parody of itself.”. Today we have his thoughts. By Evan Dawson. Whither Napa Cabernet?

He arrived in the country in 1985 thanks to a position with American Jeep and in 1996 he started importing wines after forays into other things such as scrap metal, lingerie, and Chinese and Russian ammunition. Pierre was California bulk red wine, bottled at a factory in Beijing. Donald St. The family was Canadian by birth, but St.

Premature oxidation of dry, age-worthy white wines–be they from Burgundy, Bordeaux or California–is a tremendous problem today, and at this point in time it does not look to me as if any meaningful progress has been made since the scourge first became readily apparent when the 1996 white Burgundies began to tank. think not.

Here are some that moved me, along with a few impressions: 1995 Mount Eden Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains - if California wine tasted like this, I would drink lots of California wine. 1996 Michel Lafarge Beaune 1er Cru Grèves - I had so much fun drinking this wine. Top notch wine. Really intriguing wine. Great Beaujolais.

The next up was Pinot" in the form of 1996 Clos de Tart. California Chadonnay. Maybe its the season, maybe its my taste buds or my mood, or my recent plague of hives(and Im not talking bees) and the mood altering prednisone that was required to fix me up.but NOTHING has been pleasing me. JEALOUSY! JEALOUSY! Im doomed, I thought.

The 1996 Tardieu - Laurent Hermitage made mostly (or entirely?) It actually reminded me a bit of a California Zinfandel.  I went away (within Israel) for the sabbath to a friend of the family.  A wonderful woman and great cook it is always a nice shabbat when spent with her and her family.  Crisp, minerally, refreshing.great start!

It just screamed California Cabernet to me. Maybe this is a Burgundy with a few years on it, from a year like 1996 where the wines can still be tannic beasts at this stage. was just guessing here, but I went with a 1996 Chambolle Musigny, and I threw in Les Amoureuses for good measure. Here are five red wines. I'm the idiot.

25th | Main | The Surrogate Mother Approach to Winemaking and Business Models » The Bordeaux Report September 13, 2008 (Part 1) I could care less about most of Bordeaux after 1996. the 2001 was before they had any toasty new oak barrels, which they bought in 2003 thanks to the insistence of their California importer, North Berkeley.

1996 Fleury Champagne Brut Millésimé , $56. Do you realize that in New York City in just over a week from now, about 400,000 kids, literally, are going to write short essays with almost the exact same title as this post? Another summer comes to an end. love summer in New York City. 2004 Château Pontet-Canet , $41. just don't get it.

This is about the fraudulent use of a meaningless stamp of approval, as useful as lets, see, a California Cabernet that has the U.C. This is about the fraudulent use of a meaningless stamp of approval, as useful as lets, see, a California Cabernet that has the U.C. August 19, 2008 Mom called. Did you see the Sunday Magazine? Fraud?

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Tasting California: The Teaser | Main | Publishers Weekly Is UP! » California Style and Corisons No Show Girls March 20, 2008 Still on the California mission, my next stop was the Skurnik tasting. The owner is from Texas. First impression?

Until recently Sine Quo Non, the cult California-based producer made Pinot from Shea grapes (and charged a whole heck of a lot more than anyone else did). The Sheas began bottling their own wine under the label Shea Wine Cellars in 1996 and shared the Adelsheim facility for wine making. I'm talking about Mark Vlossak at St.

the 1996 Fleury Brut was an amazing wine. If tasted blind I might have thought it to be a lesser California Pinot, as there was alcohol heat and dark roast fruit on the nose, and the palate was pretty one dimensional too - just roasted darkness. I'm in San Diego now at the in-law's place. She was wonderful, actually. That's my.02

Organic" WAS conventional, in that it was just-the-way-things-were-done, up until about a half century ago when chemical companies began calling on farmers (I interviewed one of the patriarchs of California agriculture recently, and he was the one who turned on that lightbulb for me. Main | Hearty Burgundy at Sanford? Do check it out.

She enjoys the2004 Domaine de la Collonge, and notes how different it is from a California wine she tasted. Garry from Tales of a Sommelier tasted our oldest wine, a 1996 JM Boillot Givry. There are lots of things that I like about this edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday. Many delicious wines were identified, most of them under $25.

Yes, I didn't taste one Spanish wine, nothing from Australia, very few California wines, and I completely missed the lineup of dessert wine. 1996 Bruno Paillard Champagne Brut (10) The most exciting and delicious Champagne of the tasting for me. There were LOADS of wines to taste from all over the world, all of it serious stuff.

The body of these wines are well rounded and deep without being overwhelming unlike their California counterparts, which tend to be a lot leaner and heavy on the grapefruit. Well I must say the dinner pretty much worked out. It is so awesome how the simplest of things can turn out so wonderfully. And they went really well with the wine.

Anyway, here are the wines we sampled on this visit 1996 Cristom Pinot Noir Mt Jefferson Cuvee, Willamette Valley - Funky, rotting aromas at first, but blew off to reveal mellow red and black berries, leathery earth. I'm lucky because my father in-law likes wine and keeps some good bottles in the house. 500 bottles of wine in the bins!

opened it and read it to Simon: "I am moving to California. As I transferred the bottles to my briefcase, including the lovely 1996 Roagna Barbaresco Paje , I mourned their fiery deaths in the bowels of a sweltering evidence room. All the while, Frank kept the wine flowing while extraordinary morsels kept appearing from the kitchen.

I spent almost a year between 1996 and 1997 traveling in Southeast Asia. It's packed in California and I cannot tell from the label where it is made. went to Viet Nam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Sumatra, India, and Australia. It seems like so long ago now - more than 10 years. It is a vegetarian curry paste, no shrimp paste added.