Wine Reviews
Giuseppe Brancatelli left home at 18 to travel Europe. After becoming a successful chef in Amsterdam, he returned to Italy, settling in Tuscany. Valle...
Brancatelli’s 100% Syrah is an epic fruit-driven experience. Black and red fruit are interwoven in the aromas and flavors of the wine, while accents...
Owner Brion Wise works with different winemakers to make his wines, and while Julien Fayard produced the 2019 Sleeping Lady Cabernet Sauvignon, Massimo Monticello...
For the past 20 years, Brion Wise has been concentrating on making single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons, and this one draws attention to Sleeping Lady in...
Richness of flavor or soundness of structure? Great wines have both, but many winemakers struggle to attain even one. This Brunello cannot be faulted...
I have long been fascinated with winegrowing in Patagonia, the final frontier in the Southern Hemisphere for winemakers who want to move further south...
Fading to crimson in the glass, Domaine Serguier’s 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape, is drinking quite well right now. Scents of strawberry fruit leather mingle...
Domaine Albin Jacumin’s 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape is showing much more typicity and youth than the 2015 from Domaine Serguier that I also recently tasted. The...
School House’s 2019 Pinot Noir pours a beautiful translucent crimson in the glass, immediately exuding inviting scents of strawberries, violets, subtle vanilla bean, and...
Like all of Randy Meyer’s wines, this is approachable, balanced and delicious — not necessarily words that often accompany a description of young Petite...
Hard to ignore this wine with its colorful tea label. But the story has it that indigenous tea plants remain within the old vineyards. ...
Undurraga dates back to 1885 and today is a major producer with vineyards scattered around Chile’s primary wine regions. Among several Cabernets produced, this...