But today, Terzian says, she started this scheme in fall 2008 to fill a niche, tapping into two key themes, environmental awareness and the economy. The wines vary; one is a 2009 from the Rhone, technically a vin de pays méditerranée. Bring your own resealable bottles, Poland Spring containers, jerrycans, whatever. Print receipt. MORE >>

Willm Riesling 2008 $35.98 Le Mourre de L'Isle Cotes du Rhone (cheap) I'm hoping for the best. I was dragging my feet because I've been hating everything and was confused. had one terrific bottle of 3 Celliers Chateauneuf du Pape @ $44 but the second one stunk. The first one was exciting. could not believe it REAL kosher wines. MORE >>

If you want to see sweet and dry in action, try tasting these two Leitz wines or a Northern Rhone syrah against a ripe, sweet version of the same grape from somewhere in the New World (but not all are ripe and sweet Sweet wines generally start at about 45 grams of residual sugar (RS). What’s the opposite of sweet? need water!&# MORE >>

My favorite wine of the lineup was Domaine Le Garrigon , a 2008 Cotes du Rhone. tasted them both at the Wineberry fall portfolio tasting and couldn’t distinguish a difference: both were dark in the glass, with brambly southern Rhone aromatics, and even had a arcing finish. Wine in a box? Try wine in a crate. MORE >>

Winemakers Notes: Syrah has found an ideal home in the Finger Lakes , where our climate mimics France's Rhone Valley, where the grape produces some of the finest wines in the world. Syrah has always been one to those wines I could take or leave it. Almost all that I had ever tasted were the Shiraz from Australia. From that day on I was a fan. MORE >>