Wine Reviews
An archive of all wine reviews
Michael Franz
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August 28, 2012
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This striking wine features a fabulous bouquet of earthy notes recalling damp earth, mushrooms, autumn leaves and fresh meat. The fruit is open and...
Michael Franz
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August 28, 2012
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I regard 93 as an absolutely outstanding score, and yet this wine’s rating would be even higher if it did not seem faintly volatile...
Michael Franz
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August 28, 2012
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The first word in my notes from the blind tasting in which I encountered this wine was “Yikes,” and here is why: This shows...
Michael Franz
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August 28, 2012
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This striking wine was the most deeply colored and flavored of a flight of very big wines, and yet its impressive power and intensity...
Michael Franz
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August 28, 2012
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This is one of the best wines I’ve ever tasted from Mauro Molino, showing terrific density and great power and persistence of flavor. There’s...
Robert Whitley
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August 28, 2012
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Sonoma-Loeb, long made at the Chappellet winery in the Napa Valley, was recently purchased by the Chappellet family. Other than the ownership change, however,...
Michael Apstein
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August 28, 2012
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This wine reminds us not to overlook the red Burgundies from the 2008 vintage, a year that was largely overshadowed by the ripe and...
Michael Apstein
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August 28, 2012
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Domaine Lécheneaut is a name to remember for high quality Burgundy. About 25 years ago the sons, Vincent and Philippe, took the reigns from...
Michael Apstein
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August 28, 2012
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Purple and juicy, this Barbera focuses on bright fruit flavors, imbuing it with a Beaujolais-like easy-to-drink character. It takes a chill nicely, which makes...
Robert Whitley
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August 21, 2012
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The lightest but most elegant of the 2010 releases I’ve tasted from Sojourn, this delightful Pinot from the Rodgers Vineyard in the Sonoma Coast...
Rebecca Murphy
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August 21, 2012
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This better-than-it-has-to-be Rioja, made of 90% Tempranillo and 10% Graciano, is from organic vineyards in the Rioja Alta. It’s a modern-style Rioja with focus...
Rebecca Murphy
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August 21, 2012
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Hawke’s Bay on New Zealand’s North Island is not as well known as a wine producing area as Marlborough on the South Island, and...