The Holiday Season Uncorked!
By: DegoRedDecember brings us two great celebrations with family and friends: Christmas and New Year’s. After five years of observing wine drinking habits in the beach community, I ...
By: DegoRedDecember brings us two great celebrations with family and friends: Christmas and New Year’s. After five years of observing wine drinking habits in the beach community, I ...
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Wine purchasers are always looking for great “quality price ratio” or QPR in the lingo of the wine trade. When I was a wine merchant, I ...
As the old song lyric goes, “easy as ABC”. But in the world of wine, ABC stands for “Anything But Chardonnay”. And why would anyone want anything but ...
Name: Montes Classic Series – Chardonnay 2007 Style: White wine Grape: Chardonnay ...
Name: Cousino – Macul – Dona Isidora – Riesling 2007 Style: White wine ...
Name: Bodega Norton Malbec Mendoza 2007 Style: Red wine ...
Name: Trumpeter Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Style: Red wine Grape: Cabernet ...
Name: Principato – Pinot Grigio 2007 Style: White wine ...
Louis Eschenaur is a well known name in French wine and this cabernet Savignon comes from Pays D’Oc which is that area close to the Mediterranean and is at the south end of the Rhone Valley. This is a true Cab made 100% from Sauvignon grapes and has the expected blackberry flavor. This ...
Cabernet SauvignonCertainly the best ...
Riesling. (Riesling, Muller-Thurman & Silvaner grapes) {mosimage}Riesling and Germany tend to be synonymous although the Alsace region of France and the U.S. produce Rieslings. By nature they are sweet and have a fruity taste but there are dry ...
Chardonnay This white grape has produced wines universal in their appeal and is the main grape used in Champagne. Its origin is probably the white Burgandy and most highly priced “Chards” are aged in oak with French Chablis being a noticeable exception. They are ...
The Syrah grape made its name in the Rhone Valley of France but in recent years the Australian vineyards have produced a vast array of Syrah ( called Shiraz down under) which has taken the wine from a relatively elite wine to affordable levels. Syrah is ...
Everyone knows Merlot by name but it is only in the last 50 years that it has come into its own. It is grown world wide from Bordeaux’s right bank , to all three Pacific coast states, Argentina, Chile South Africa and Australia. The Merlot grape tends to be high in alcohol and lower ...