These wines will give Burgundy a run for its money! Cave Spring Cellars Blancs de Blancs Brut 2004. Cave Spring Cellars CSV 2007. Flatrock Cellars Reserve 2007. Flatrock Cellars 2008. Lakeview Cellars Reserve 2000. Lakeview Cellars Reserve 2007. Tawse Winery Beamsville Bench Reserve 2002. MORE >>

If I had arranged for a dinner featuring Red Burgundies from 30 different appellations, I doubt anyone attending the dinner would have thought that all the Burgundies tasted the same. For example, you can still find Gravner 2001 and 2002 bottlings around without much trouble in NYC market. Orange wines are sweeping the nation! MORE >>

love Burgundy and Beaujolais, and Poulsard is definitely of the same phenotype. Several years ago I drank the 2002 and didn't get it at all. Beautiful now, and seems like a good candidate for the cellar. I've recently emerged from a bit of a "red wine stand-still." I've wanted to branch out some more. Is that so wrong? MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. perfect example in my opinion of going over the top and valuing the process over the results could be seen with Domaine Leroy’s wines in the great, great red Burgundy vintage of 1993. Natural wines are growing in popularity. think not. MORE >>

This wine seems as if it could do another 15 years in the cellar without blinking. think of these wines the way I think of Burgundy wine - they are highly site specific. 2002 Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre et Maine Clos des Noelles Excelsior , $22, Louis/Dressner Selections. Perhaps even the seafood stereotype entirely. MORE >>