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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

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Red Wine Grapes

August 22, 2016October 11, 2016

Red wines get their color from extended contact between the grape juice and their skins during maceration and fermentation. Red wine grapes look anywhere from purple to bluish to almost black while they are hanging on the vine, and it's the pigments in the grape skins and the amount of time that... Read More

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White Wine Grapes

August 19, 2016October 11, 2016

In truth, any grape can be used to make white wine. The color of wine comes from skin contact during the winemaking process, so if you press the grapes and separate the juice from the skin, the skin will impart no color. This is probably most famously done in the... 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

Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot Tasting USA Wine Wine Info

Ridge Monte Bello

June 25, 2016September 25, 2016

I have been hearing raves about Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello for as long as I have been drinking wine. I've heard Monte Bello spoken of as "America’s First Growth," representing the American example of a classic Bordeaux blend in which Cabernet Sauvignon is the primary grape. Year after year Monte Bello receives... Read More

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Rosé, the wine you should be drinking this summer and all year long!

June 22, 2016September 26, 2016

For many, many years, I stuck up my nose at pink wine. Rosé. The sweet stuff that so many of my girlfriends seemed to adore. I just didn't like it and assumed that all pink wine was bad. How very wrong I was. If I'm going to be honest, my mind... 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

Personal Wine

I Passed!

April 29, 2016September 6, 2016

It's been too long since my last post, but at the very least, I have an excuse why. For the past few months I have been hunkering down and preparing for the Level 2 Certified Sommelier Examination with the Court of Master Sommeliers. A little less than two years ago,... Read More

Spain Tasting Tempranillo Wine Wine Info

Classic Spanish Rioja – R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia and Viña Gravonia

June 3, 2015September 9, 2016 Rioja

There are classic wines and wineries to be sure, but when you've been in the business for more than 100 years you become synonymous with the the wine of the region. Enter R. López de Heredia. Founded in 1877, the winery is still owned and run by family (now in it's... Read More

Tasting USA Wine

Taste Testing Trader Joe’s Three Buck Chuck

April 30, 2015September 9, 2016

Orlando got our first Trader Joe's last year. As a fan of many of their products, I was excited about the opening and braved the crowds to do some shopping. And do you know what I saw? People stocking up on bottles (and in many instances cases) of Charles Shaw... Read More