Wine Reviews

An archive of all wine reviews
Marguerite Thomas
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February 7, 2023
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 With this charming, food friendly and simply delicious white wine, Elena Walch has done it again.  This time she presents us with a Pinot...
Vince Simmon
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February 7, 2023
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 Rivata’s Barbaresco is a steal at $22.  It offers a traditional flavor profile with sour cherry, cranberry, prune, tobacco leaf, and baked fig with...
Vince Simmon
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February 7, 2023
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 I don’t see a lot of high-quality Riesling coming from Italy.  Falkenstein’s south-facing vineyards sit just over two-thousand feet above sea level giving them...
Vince Simmon
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February 7, 2023
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 The D’Angelo winery sits just to the East of Monte Vulture, an enormous extinct volcano.  Monte Vulture towers over the region and its eruption...
Norm Roby
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February 7, 2023
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 When it comes to quality red wines for the price, the smart money is on Chile. There are many wineries in the game, but...
Norm Roby
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February 7, 2023
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 From a vineyard within the Donnybrook sub-region, this Shiraz comes with all of the swagger its name implies, but shows just enough complexity to...
Rebecca Murphy
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February 7, 2023
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 Winemaker Ryan Stirm has created a pleasing, light-bodied red with red cherry, cranberry, raspberry fruit spiced with a touch of black pepper perfect with...
Rebecca Murphy
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February 7, 2023
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 Wine importer Anthony Terlato was credited with introducing Pinot Grigio wines to the U.S.  The Pinot Grigio grape (also known as Pinot Gris) is...
Rebecca Murphy
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February 7, 2023
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 Romain Collet grew up in a family that has been growing and tending wine grape vines in the Chablis region of Burgundy since the...
Roger Morris
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February 7, 2023
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 I remember touring Villa Maria’s gigantic winery outside of Auckland in 2005 and first getting the revelation that large-scale winemaking (also know disparagingly as...
Roger Morris
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February 7, 2023
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 Each time I reread the saga of the Bournet-Lapostolle family, first in France and then in Chile, it reminds me of the magic realism...
Miranda Franco
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February 7, 2023
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 Domaine Henri Cruchon rests on the shores of Lac Léman (also known as Lake Geneva), west of Lausanne in French-speaking Vaud, Switzerland.  Chasselas (Chas-a-la)...