Wine Reviews
An archive of all wine reviews
This is an exciting harbinger of wines to come from the 2022 harvest in Germany from one of the top estates in the Nahe. ...
The Chalmers Family winery of Murray Darling in the state of Victoria is a vine nursery as well as a wine producer. They have...
Consumers often overlook Bordeaux because of an image that the wines are rarified, expensive, and need considerable aging. That criticism may apply to the...
Château Recougne consistently displays the quintessential Bordeaux profile of fruit and what I like to call, “not just fruit” character. This refined mid-weight wine...
Côte Rôtie, or “roasted slope” transliterated into English, is composed of two major subdivisions, the Côte Brune and the Côte Blonde. Typically, the former...
Guigal now owns prized vineyards in Saint Joseph and makes highly acclaimed wines from them, much as they do in Côte Rôtie. The grapes...
Lu & Oly is Mark Ryan’s second label, named after his daughters. Mark Ryan is a top producer in Washington’s wine scene and his...
The Bernede family has been one of the most reliable producers in Cahors, and now seems settled on offering a balanced, well-structured version. In...
Made from vines averaging 30 years old, this “Cuvée Terroir” is one of several Chinon bottlings from Joguet. The winemaker draws from 36 hectares...
Glenn Goodall, Xanadu’s winemaker, explains that producers in the Margaret River they like to focus on what they do best — Cabernet Sauvignon. He...
There is no better producer of Vermentino than Lunae. And this light — 12.5 percent stated alcohol — and fresh IGT Vermentino, their so-called...
New discoveries, interesting wines from place you’ve — or at least I’ve — never heard of, is one of the things I love about...