Wine Reviews
An archive of all wine reviews
Michael Franz
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August 14, 2012
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This is a “showy” wine featuring lots of fancy oak, but there’s such depth and drive in the fruit that it never seems remotely...
Tina Caputo
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August 14, 2012
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Black cherry, cassis and spice aromas are followed by smooth blackberry and black fruit flavors. The wine is well balanced and medium bodied.
Michael Apstein
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August 14, 2012
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A special bottling to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Maison Louis Jadot, one of Burgundy’s best producers, this Beaune Premier Cru is a blend...
Michael Apstein
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August 14, 2012
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Morgan continues its streak of terrific Pinot Noir with this 2010 Double L Vineyard bottling. A powerful rendition, redolent of black rather than red...
Michael Apstein
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August 14, 2012
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Fred Cline (of Cline Cellars) and his wife, Nancy, founded Jacuzzi Family Vineyards in 1994 to honor Cline’s grandfather, Valeriano Jacuzzi, and his Italian...
Michael Apstein
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August 14, 2012
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Gérard Bertrand is one of the winemaking stars in the Languedoc. La Forge, his flagship red, is a blend of old (100-year) vine Carignan...
Michael Apstein
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August 7, 2012
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The Arneis grape, originally grown in Piedmont and used to “soften” Barolo and now used there as a stand alone white wine, has migrated...
Michael Apstein
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August 7, 2012
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The source–a fifth of the wine comes from the appellations of Nuits St Georges and Cotes de Nuits Village–and the 45 year average age...
Michael Apstein
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August 8, 2012
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Jadot’s Pernand-Vergelesses Clos de la Croix de Pierre is always a fabulous value in white Burgundy because half of the wine comes from a...
Michael Apstein
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August 7, 2012
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Maison Louis Jadot, the Beaune-based Burgundy négociant, has always made an array of fine Beaujolais, from their Beaujolais-Villages up to the single-vineyard bottlings of...
Gerald D. Boyd
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August 7, 2012
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Barbaresco has sometimes been described as “Baby Barolo,” but Fiorenzo Dogliani, in a non P.C. mood, says that Barbaresco is the “wife of Barolo.” ...
Gerald D. Boyd
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August 7, 2012
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Kick the dirt in just about any vineyard in Chianti and you’ll turn up numerous calcareous seashells deposited millennia ago when the Mediterranean receded. ...