Ventura’s Vina do Burato, 2008 (about $19). It’s reminiscent of a cru Beaujolais, although a tad darker in color, but with that same lively acidity, bright fruit and scoring highly on the drinkability scale. The Almalarga 2008 from Pena Das Donas ($22) was also low in alcohol (12.5% Case in point: D. Excellent! MORE >>

The Liv-Ex blog provides his top scored wines. It will be interesting (at least in a detached, voyeuristic way) to see how some chateaux will price their 2010 wines in the event they received lower scores than in 2009 (and the weak dollar won’t exactly drive prices lower here in the US). Bordeaux MORE >>

Bought by the Lurton family in 1922, and managed by Henri Lurton since 1992, the estate's wines are constantly high-scoring but it remains one of the cheaspest second growth's on the market. Indeed, the Live-ex aanalysis describes the 2008 and 2006 as 'remarkable value for money under 300 pounds per case.'. MORE >>

was able to try many of their wines, with all of them scoring high points and my favorites being the 2007 Syrah, both the Rusack Syrah with incredible smoke, fig, licorice and fig, and the 2007 Syrah Reserve, with more concentration, complexity of flavor, and judicious wood influence. MORE >>

want to stop doing that, but I'll save that and other blog improvements for 2008 for another post. This is my 200th post here at the ol' Brooklynguy blog. That's a lot of writing about wine and food. Kind of hard to believe. But there is also some junk in here. So without further ado, here they are - Brooklynguy's Favorites of 2007 ! So good. MORE >>