To give you a flavor of his preferences and picks, I asked him several questions via email. If its not a tasting night with samples, usually red Burgundy. Tags: wine picks wine collecting John Gilman is one of the people who I have enjoyed getting to know in 2008. broke it up in to two postings. Onward! And five years? MORE >>

In January, I tasted one of Australia’s most well-known wines, the Jacob’s Creek, Steingarten Riesling. Tags: Australian wine wine picks Unfortunately, the bottle was not showing well that day. In switching to screwcaps have you replaced one problem, TCA taint, with another problem, reduction? Yes, in a sense. MORE >>

The 2008 balances citrusy acidity with a wet rocky quality beautifully; the 2009, of which I had tasting sized pour a couple of weeks later, seemed to have even more crackling acidity. Tags: wine picks As the weather warms up, a couple of zippy whites may be in order. Chill and serve with seafood on the deck. MORE >>

After my GMA segment last week , I thought I would elaborate a little more on one of the box wines that I tasted for the first time this fall: Wineberry box. The exact same wine still comes in a bottle format, which costs $15 while the box comes in at $10 per 750ml–perfect for all your bottle vs. box blind tastings. MORE >>

If I could only find my blasted tasting notes for you I could have something more specific to say but the wine, as I recall, had some nice dark fruit character with some underlying minerality and acidity that are so lacking in lower-priced (and, too often, higher priced) versions of the grape from the New World. about $19; find this wine ). MORE >>