Wine Reviews

An archive of all wine reviews
Rich Cook
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November 3, 2015
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Famed winemaker Nick Goldschmidt uses his daughter’s name on this bottle — it’s the result of winemaking lessons with Chelsea, and I’d give this...
Rich Cook
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November 3, 2015
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Lou Preston doesn’t get anywhere near the press he deserves.  He’s quietly been making stellar wines in Dry Creek Valley for years and years,...
Rich Cook
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November 3, 2015
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If find that I tend to favor a few labels in blind tastings of high end Napa Valley reds, and Signorello always seems to...
Rich Cook
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November 3, 2015
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Pahlmeyer’s second label uses fruit that doesn’t make the cut for their flagship bottling.  That being the case, I’d say fasten your seatbelts for...
Marguerite Thomas
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October 27, 2015
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As fresh and vibrant as the autumnal wind currently sweeping away the excesses of hot, heavy summer weather, this toothsome wine comes from Italy’s...
Robert Whitley
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October 27, 2015
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Louis M. Martini is best known for its iconic Monte Rosso Vineyard Cabernet, but the wines a bit lower in the food chain bear...
Ed McCarthy
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October 27, 2015
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This is the wine that finished in first place in the 1,000 wines+ China tasting.  After I tasted it, I can understand.  The 2009...
Michael Apstein
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November 20, 2012
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Martini’s Cabernets are consistently well made and well priced, and this one didn’t disappoint.  It has aromas of plums and black fruit, accented with...
Rich Cook
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October 27, 2015
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Just when I thought I was finished talking about the red wines that managed to succeed despite the difficult 2011 vintage, this beauty comes...
Marguerite Thomas
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October 27, 2015
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Lush and concentrated, with a pleasant hoist of tartness to counterbalance both the ripe fruit and the alcohol, the 2012 “Clarion” (made from equal...
Michael Apstein
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October 27, 2015
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Côtes du Rhône, a vast appellation in the southern Rhone Valley, produces both well priced satisfying red wines and mediocre ones.  This one, in...
Marguerite Thomas
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October 27, 2015
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Rather than communicate my own tasting notes here let me simply share the comments of a friend who joined me in tasting a group...