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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | A WINE STORY APRIL 29, 2011 Hospice du Rhone 2011 Panel lead by Christophe Tassan note: from my travels in France, this is actually a familiar story!). Michel also brought a "GSM" - grenache, syrah, mouvedre (Chateau de Nages 2009 Costieres de Nimes, Chaeau de Nage Vielles Vignes, Rouge) with minimum oak yet a spicey nose of concentrated red grapes. 100% Syrah. | WHY WINE BLOG DECEMBER 7, 2009 A Day In The Finger Lakes 3 - "Deck The Halls" It was at Atwater that I found the best wine of the day, the 2007 Syrah. The rest of the day we traveled north on Rt. From there we traveled to Fulkerson Winery, Glenora Wine Cellars and Villa Bellangelo. This time it was our first visit to the "Deck the Halls" event on Seneca Lake. 14 (the west side). What a great pairing. | DR. VINO OCTOBER 6, 2009 Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman In the cold cellars where the wines were made, the vigneron’s examples of non-sulfur bottles are likely to be just fine, but can this experience be reproduced consistently around the globe, given the very real vagaries of travel that wines still have to survive these days? asked him six questions; he replied with over 10,000 words! think not. | | | | | | | | |
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A WINE STORY | MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010  Discovering the Wine Properties of AXA Millesimes
Today the French insurance company AXA owns several wineries which produce the world’s most exquisite wine, such as Chateau Pichon Longueville, Chateau Suduiraut, Chateau Petit-Village, Chateau Belles Eaux, and two other properties outside France, Disznoko in Tokai and Quinta do Noval in Portugal. Sunday: Dinner in a Chateau. The Lunch. MORE >> -
SLAKED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2009  2008 Monte Bello Futures Tasting
Similarly, the trip up Monte Bello Road is a wine lover's purgatory: The road is much too narrow, the mountain is much too high, and it is impossible to travel faster than a snail. Wooden crosses line the road, where, I presume, luckless travelers have fallen. would hate to see the end of Ridge's syrah and grenache program. MORE >> -
WINE TASTING GUY | MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008  NorCal day 2: Sonoma
Their 2004 cabernet which is actually a Bordeaux blend of 76% Cabernet, 18% merlot, 4% Petit Verdot & 2% cab franc. Although Ridge is known for their Zins they do make other very fine wines and we were started off with a Chardonnay and finished with a Cab/Merlot blend and finally a Petit Syrah. Maybe he simply lacked personality. MORE >> -
WINE TASTING GUY | SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2008 Day in Napa
then had a Rose' made from Cab Franc before moving on to the reds. The wines that stood out though were their Syrahs. enjoyed the 2003 Havens Syrah but mentioned to Connie that I thought the nose was a little closed. She proceeded to open a 2000 Syrah that they recently re-released and it was great. Nice wines. MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008  Casa Marguery Malbec: Bringing the Past to the Present and Into the Future
had been learning all I could about French wine and because my blog focused on wines under twenty bucks my travels through the country via New York City wine shops eventually took me to Cahors. have looked and looked and found minimal information on the details of how Malbec made it from France to Argentina. The answer is yes we do. MORE >>
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