Posted by winecase on Dec 6, 2009 in
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Creekside is one interesting winery. They can make some very straightforward, accessible wines with a great quality-price ratio, as shown not only by their Estate series of wines (like that nice, pepper-strawberry driven shiraz), but also by the 60,000 some odd cases the same winemaking team makes for No. 99 Estates Winery, generally known as [...]
Tags: 2004 Lost Barrel, Canadian wine, Close plant riesling, Creekside Estate Winery, muscat, Niagara, No. 99 Estates Winery, Ontario, producers, Reserve pinot gris, sauvignon blanc, tasting, Undercurrents, Wayne Gretzky, white wine, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting, winemaking
Posted by winecase on Nov 20, 2009 in
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It’s nice when social media pushes the idea of social forward, encouraging collective thinking and group efforts. Like this Ontario riesling project that was proposed to a small group of wine writers and professionals by Rick Van Sickle, of the St Catharines Standard, and Suresh Doss, of Spotlight Toronto.
Six writers, including this guy who does [...]
Tags: Canada, Canadian wine, Cave Spring, Creekside, Hidden Bench, Niagara, Ontario, Rick Van Sickle, Riesling, Spotlight Toronto, Suresh Doss, tasting, Thirty Bench, VQA, white wine, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting
Posted by winecase on Nov 18, 2009 in
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It seemed like an easy theme, what Rob Bralow proposed for Wine Blogging Wednesday. Find your Muse. That’s easy, here it is:
There, done. And there’s plenty of other songs from that band available on the Internet.
Oh, wait. That’s not what he meant?
All right. Enough with the silly musical asides. But it is a wicked, inspiring [...]
Tags: 1990, cabernet sauvignon, Finding your Muse, Mas La Plana, Miguel Torres, Muse, Penedès, Spain, tasting, Torres, Uprising, WBW 63, William Blake, wine, Wine Blogging Wednesday, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting
Posted by winecase on Nov 8, 2009 in
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The Catena family is one of the major and one of the most interesting players in the world of Argentinian wine. They produce a wide range of wines in all sorts of price range, with consistent quality at all levels, from the more generic Alamos label to the Catena Zapata wines, the top cuvées created [...]
Tags: Argentina, cabernet sauvignon, Catena Alta, Catena Zapata, Mendoza, red wine, sense of place, tasting, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting
Posted by winecase on Oct 26, 2009 in
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Zinfandel is like white wines: it doesn’t age well, right?
Wrong. Oh, so wrong.
On Saturday night, I opened a bottle of 14-year-old zin I’d pulled from the cellar a couple of weeks ago, to set it up right and make it ready for drinking on the right occasion. Which, in the end, meant pizza night on [...]
Tags: 1979, 1995, Anderson Ranch, California, Dry Creek, Glen Ellen, Napa Valley, pizza, Preston, Quivira, red wine, Ridge, Robert Mondavi, tasting, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting, zinfandel
Posted by winecase on Sep 24, 2009 in
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A little oxydation can be a good thing, now and then. Not only for all these wonderful, “geeky” wines from Jura, as Eric Asimov points out in his New York Times column this week (where he rightly praises the Ganevat Trousseau as a great steak wine… but that’s another story). It can even be true [...]
Tags: 1995, Beamsville Bench, Canada, Cave Spring, Eric Asimov, Ganevat, icewine, Jura, New York Times, Niagara, Ontario, oxydation, Riesling, tasting, VQA, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting