Wine Reviews
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The Domaine du Vieux College lies in the village of Marsannay at the north end of the Côte de Nuits. Eric Guyard took over...
2018 was a ripe vintage for Bordeaux with many wines just arriving in the US market. This is a fine harvest throughout Bordeaux. While...
The full glory of fine South African Chenin Blanc is on display in the 2017 Longridge Ou Steen Chenin Blanc. The fruit for this...
Portugal has always been the place to find value-packed reds and whites. Here is another example of one that over delivers for the price. ...
Arneis, a grape found nowhere in Italy except Piedmont, makes one of that country’s overlooked white wines. The Oxford Companion to Wine informs us...
Tablas Creek Vineyard needs no introduction to wine lovers. This property, founded in 1989 by the Perrin family of Château Beaucastel (an iconic Châteauneuf-du-Pape...
In the past, Vinho Verde, literally “green wine,” frequently delivered little more than enamel clearing acidity. That has changed, as Casa da Tapada’s...
The heart of Chile’s Colchagua Valley, one of the prime areas for growing red varieties, lies 30 miles or so inland, east of the...
The regulations for Etna Bianco require at least 60 percent Carricante in the blend. Firriato opts to blend another autochthonous grape, Catarratto, with Carricante...
What I first liked about this wine was its just-poured aroma of cedar and graphite rather than oodles of fruit. With time, the nose...
California’s Russian River Valley is a near perfect wine growing region, warm in the daytime and cooled by the fog that rolls in off...
Sancerre can excel on the strength of its fruit, or its minerality in certain parts of the appellation, or on both. This is a...