could try to describe the estate for you, but I would just be sourcing Joe Salamone's excellent article on the Crush website. Anyway, we drank Les Chalasses from 2004 and 2008, and I thought they were both excellent wines. Domaine Ganevat is in the Jura, in a town called Rotalier. The new vintage is 2009 and it's completely delicious. MORE >>

I've been thinking about this lately because my wine buying budget has been cut in the past year, but also because Eric Asimov has written about this several times, most recently pointing to Mike Steinbergers' article in Slate that discussed inexpensive wines he recently drank with mixed results. think it it is possible, yes. or $13.50 MORE >>

really enjoyed the 2001 Shiraz, which received 98 points from Wine Advocate, though I enjoyed the 2008 equally well with its jammy red fruits and "inky black fruit over vanilla ice cream" character. "It's been decades since I've been to New York," says the youthful and sporty looking Lynne Shri vin gon who has come to the U.S. MORE >>

spent a half day in Picpoul with some other educators , and also wrote an article about it for Palate Press. 2008 Mas des Dams La Dame AOC Languedoc (18.00). Today was the first day of the Languedoc Roussillon Study & Certificate Program offered by the French Wine Society with support from Sud de France. very successful first day. MORE >>

Sunday October 9th kicked off the fourth annual Regional Wine Week, an event started in 2008 by Jeff Siegel ( The Wine Curmudgeon ) and Dave McIntyre ( Dave McIntyre's WineLine ) and hosted by DrinkLocalWine.com. DLW also commissions articles about some of the biggest trends in regional wine. Lots of fruit aromas and flavors. MORE >>