This week I had the opportunity to try some excellent new wines from Xavier Flouret! Xavier Flouret 2009 Flaca Torrentes Style note: Elegant wine with subtle floral nose, intense minerality, and a palate that offers concetrated yet subtle ripe peach/apricot backed with firm minerality and a long finish. Perfect with fish or chicken. Xavier Flouret [...]
J. Lohr is a California producer of many different varietals, and increasingly, many different vineyards. I had the good fortune recently to receive a case of 2008 wines and must say all are of exceptional quality for the price. If I had to choose my two favorites, they would be the Chardonnay and the 2007 [...]
Kanonkop Abrie Beeslaar One of the advantages of living in the new millennium – for wine students, at any rate, is the opportunity to compare tasting notes on the Internet and even connect with winemakers. Recently I tasted 2007 Kanonkop Pinotage with an eye on how I would know it was a 2007 South [...]
Apremont Appellation in the French Alps As a wine educator, one of the most pleasurable aspects of my profession is choosing a theme for a class and introducing students to exciting wines or wine regions I have discovered. And here in Manhattan, this is a special challenge, because in this jaded city most everyone [...]
Apremont Appellation in the French Alps As a wine educator, one of the most pleasurable aspects of my profession is choosing a theme for a class and introducing students to exciting wines or wine regions I have discovered. And here in Manhattan, this is a special challenge, because in this jaded city most everyone [...]
Ah, the New World! I’ve just received box of wines from this winery and since my wine studies have been so Old World focused, always delighted to receive California wines. Here are some tasting notes. Frei Brothers Reserve Merlot 2007 Dry Creek Valley Smooth and rich, with rounded flavors of plums ripening in the [...]
If you are like most people, it’s hard to wrap your head around the concept of “mineral” in a wine. Most of us do not go around eating stones, or even smelling them. Yet tasting note after tasting note in…
So I’ve just opened a bottle of Ehlers Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2007 and inhale the delicate aroma of ripe, yet still firm, peaches and apricots. This aroma carries through to the palate, which has a fuller body than many Sauvignon…
One if the pleasures of today’s wine world is the ability to walk into a store and choose a varietal from nearly anywhere in the world. Sauvignon Blanc is one of the world’s top international white grapes, and increasingly, is…
