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Tasting Note: Undercurrent Muscat-Sauvignon Blanc 2007 and other crazy wines from Creekside Estate Winery

Posted by winecase on Dec 6, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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Ontario’s best rieslings: a collective tasting on Spotlight Toronto (and two extra tasting notes)

Posted by winecase on Nov 20, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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WBW 63: Finding my muse in a bottle of 1990 Mas La Plana

Posted by winecase on Nov 18, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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Tasting Note: 2005 Catena Alta Cabernet Sauvignon, Bodega Catena Zapata

Posted by winecase on Nov 8, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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Tasting Note: Robert Mondavi 1995 Napa Valley Zinfandel

Posted by winecase on Oct 26, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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Tasting note: Cave Spring 1995 Beamsville Bench Riesling Icewine, Niagara Peninsula VQA

Posted by winecase on Sep 24, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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