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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE MAY 23, 2008 Friday Night Bubbles Olivier Cousin makes natural wines, working his family's property in the central part of the Loire Valley near the area defined as Coteaux du Layon. Cousin cultivates Gamay, Grolleau, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, and Chenin Blanc - there is something for everyone in this portfolio. | | | | | |
| DR. VINO OCTOBER 6, 2009 Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better? | | | | | | | | | | |
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DR. VINO | MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009  Screwcaps, scores, riesling, the Loire, Cali cab: John Gilman part two
We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar ( part one is here ). How do you make a screwcap-sealed wine taste and smell like rotting cabbage or burning rubber- put it in the cellar for a few years. The Loire. German Riesling. just don’t get it. Rhône today. MORE >> -
WINE TASTING GUY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008 Polaner tasting standouts
began in a French table area and tried some Sancerres (made from Sauvignon Blanc), some white Burgundys (made from Chardonnay) and some white blends. Moving to the Rhone valley in France I tried some wines from Eric Texier. An under appreciated grape here in the Western world is Chenin Blanc. don't know. great wine. MORE >> -
BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008  Loire Chenin Blanc Wine Dinner
Recently it was our turn to host wine group and I chose Loire Chenin Blancs as the theme. This night for me was further proof for me that the Loire Valley offers truly profound white wines at reasonable prices. Other than H uët's, I have yet to be truly wowed by any Loire sparkling wine, I must say. MORE >> -
BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2006  Domaine du Closel Savennieres
Savennieres is one of the great Loire Valley appellations, producing amazing white wines made from the chenin blanc grape. Many wines made in Savennieres can improve for decades with cellaring. The wines are usually dry with pronounced minerality, and when well made, offer beautiful stone fruit and honey flavors. MORE >> -
BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2006 2005 Vouvrays Have Arrived
The 2005 vintage is supposed to be so good in many French wine regions, and the Loire Valley is one of them. Chamber Street, by the way, has a truly fantastic selection of Loire Valley wines, both the whites and the reds. We checked out the dark and dank cellar where hundreds.thousands (?) MORE >>
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- Roundup - Recent Sips BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007
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- A Night of Loire Valley 1990's BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
- WBW 37 - Indigenous Grape Varieties BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
- Wine Blogging Wednesday #29 - Biodynamic Wine BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007
- Dressner Portfolio Tasting Notes BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
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