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2010 Louis Jadot Chambolle Musigny

August 18, 2019August 29, 2019 Burgundy, chambollemusigny, louisjadot, tastingnotes

This. This is why I love wine. Both Don and I were craving red. With the summer heat we’ve been drinks lots of white, rosé, and sparkling, but red wine was just calling to us. So I looked in my wine fridge and what did I find, a 2010 Louis... Read More

Burgundy France Instagram Pinot Noir Wine

2008 Domaine Daniel Rion & Fils Nuits-St-Georges Vielles Vignes

June 6, 2019June 20, 2020 danielrionetfils, domainedanielrion, nationalpinotnoirday, nuitssaintgeorges, pinotnoir, wine, winelover

Happy National Pinot Noir Day everyone! I hope you’ve got something spectacular in your glass to celebrate! I’m seriously enjoying this ‘08 Burgundy - drinking right at its peak. Earthy, herbal, and crazy complex with tart red cherry fruit bringing it all together. Read More

Bordeaux France Instagram Wine

2010 Le Petit Haut Lafitte

May 26, 2019June 20, 2020

Happy National Wine Day everyone! I’m psyched to be drinking this 2010 Le Petit Haut Lafitte, a simple Bordeaux blend from Pessac Leognan. Black currants, black cherries, a hint of pencil lead, green tobacco, and even black tea. Good acid, nice tannin structure, and at 9 years old, drinking really... Read More

France Instagram Rhone Syrah/Shiraz Tasting Wine

2004 Yann Chave Crozes Hermitage

April 27, 2019April 28, 2019 crozeshermitage, frenchwine, yannchave

There’s something magical about Syrah when it’s made in the Northern Rhone. Tonight’s 2004 CrozesHermitage was so spot on - bacon, smoky meat, and spice slowly evolved to give way to berries, earth and peppery deliciousness. This is the type of wine I’d love to be able to drink every... Read More

Chardonnay France Tasting Wine

2012 Garnier et Fils Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

November 14, 2016

Wine lovers are always on the hunt for their next delicious bottle. When I go to a new restaurant, I devour their wine list hoping to find treasures without an insane markup. On lucky days I am rewarded with a new producer, grape, or style of wine. That is exactly how... Read More

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Learn Your Wine Regions: Chablis

October 26, 2016

When I think about wine of place, wine that can't be made anywhere else, I think of Chablis. A subregion of Burgundy, the vineyards of Chablis actually sit closer to Champagne, a mere 20 miles away, than the rest of Burgundy around 60 miles southeast. That makes for a pretty darn... Read More

France Gamay Tasting Wine

2015 Domaine Depeuble Pere et Fils Beaujolais

September 10, 2016October 11, 2016 Beaujolais

Beaujolais is good time wine. Those fruity light flavors, low tannins and high acid scream for food and to be drunk in happy chuggable gulps, not formal, focused sips. This is not fancy, nor complex wine, nor does it mean to be. If you like your wine fruity and light,... Read More

France Pinot Noir Tasting Wine

2010 Domaine Follin-Arbelet Clos du Chapitre Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru

August 26, 2016October 11, 2016 Burgundy

What a lovely, lovely wine. This is what I'm talking about when I say I love Burgundy. Today's wine is 100% Pinot Noir from a small village at the northern end of the Cote de Beaune sub-region of Burgundy. It is located on the plains below the Cote d'Or escarpment, just north of Beaune, in... Read More

France Sauvignon Blanc Tasting Wine

2010 Didier Dagueneau Buisson Renard Pouilly-Fumé

August 8, 2016October 25, 2016 Loire

When you read about wine as much as I do, there are a bunch of winemakers/producers that you file away as important in their field. Mavericks, game-changers, the people that define styles, that create cult followings, that demand high prices for very small production wines. You do this without ever... Read More

France Pinot Noir Tasting Wine

Burgundy: 1978 Remoissenet Volnay and 2013 Arnoux Savigny-Lès-Beaune

April 30, 2016September 25, 2016

In the past week I've had the pleasure to drink two Burgundies that were such opposites of each other, I had to write about them. Both are made from the Pinot Noir grape and both are from the Côte de Beaune in the Southern portion of the Côte d'Or in France, but the age... Read More