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Bota Box, California (United States) Merlot 2011
Michael Franz
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March 19, 2013
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Everybody knows that Merlot was the whipping boy of American wine for almost a decade in the wake of “Sideways,” and almost everybody that...
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Taylor Fladgate, Porto (Portugal) 2009
Michael Apstein
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March 19, 2013
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Taylor’s 2009 vintage Port is stunningly good.  The 2009 vintage Ports in general are riper because of the warmth of the growing season.  Even...
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Fonseca, Porto (Portugal) 2009
Michael Apstein
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March 19, 2013
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Fonseca vintage Ports are typically slightly riper and less taut than Taylor’s because of the location of their major vineyard, Quinta do Panascal.  The...
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Croft, Porto (Portugal) 2009
Michael Apstein
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March 19, 2013
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Of the trio of 2009 vintage Ports from the family owned Fladgate Partnership, Taylor Fladgate, Fonseca and Croft, Croft’s is the silkiest at this...
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Domaine Gilles Robin, Crozes-Hermitage (Rhône Valley, France) 2011
March 19, 2013
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Gilles Robin took over the family estate in 1996, and had immediate success winning awards from his first vintage.  This is the estate’s  “normal”...
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Domaine Gilles Robin, Crozes-Hermitage (Rhône Valley, France) 2010
March 19, 2013
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The grapes for this old-vines cuvée are from vines planted in the 1950’s and 1960’s.  The pedigree allows for more seasoning with oak so...
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Domaine Gilles Robin, Saint-Joseph (Rhône Valley, France) 2010
March 19, 2013
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Gilles Robin’s Saint-Joseph vineyard lies at a high altitude on steep granite slopes with excellent southeast exposure.  The vines were planted in the 1960’s,...
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Domaine Gilles Robin, Hermitage (Rhône Valley, France) 2009
March 19, 2013
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This is the inaugural vintage of Robin’s Hermitage, made from purchased grapes grown on granite.  With prices for vineyard land on the Hermitage hill...
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Mas de Daumas Gassac, IGP Pays d’Hérault (Languedoc, France) 2011
Michael Apstein
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March 12, 2013
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Mas de Daumas Gassac, dubbed the Lafite of the Languedoc by France’s prestigious Gault et Millau guide in 1982, has been producing this value...
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Alvaro Palacios, Priorat (Spain) 2010
Michael Apstein
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March 5, 2013
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Alvaro Palacios is one of the stars of Priorat, an area in Catalonia that he helped reinvigorate in the early 1990s.  Don’t be put...
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Feudi di San Gregorio, Irpinia Aglianico IGT (Campania, Italy) 2008
Robert Whitley
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March 12, 2013
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There are good wines. There are great wines. Then there are wines that demand their own special category, wines so profound they stun you...
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Fallbrook Winery, South Coast (California) Sangiovese 2010
Robert Whitley
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March 12, 2013
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The Fallbrook estate is situated 30 miles north of San Diego. Its hillside vineyards are planted to cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec, syrah, sauvignon blanc...
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