“This wine will improve with five to 10 years under proper cellar conditions.” Okay, fine. But what if you don’t have a proper wine cellar?
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Pretty, light ruby J. Wilkes Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir offers attractive Pinot scents, red cherry and tomato skin. Its delicious bright cherry flavor is framed by fresh, tart acidity, with clean fruit and a touch of stony minerality lingering in a very long finish.
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It’s been a while since I opened a bottle of Chenin Blanc, and just about as long since I enjoyed a wine from South Africa. It’s time to catch up!
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Sustainably grown in South Africa’s Paarl region on the Western Cape, Babylonstoren Chenin Blanc is a delicious wine that supports South Africa’s tradition as an excellent terroir for Chenin Blanc. Appealing fresh fruit scents of stone fruit and pineapple join lemony citrus on the palate. Bracing acidity cloaks a hint of sweetness. Intriguing stony minerality joins lemon and lime in a very long finish.
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Over the past 10years Neal Duarte and his wife have visited Le Marche – or Marche, as the natives call it – a number of times. This is is a long, thin region stretching from Emilia-Romagna in the north down to Abruzzo in the south, all of it along the Adriatic. In this article, Neal gives an overview of the region’s wines.
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I love Kermit Lynch, and I love the wines that he imports. But I had to chuckle when his wine label suggested serving a wine at exactly 63ºF.
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Clos la Coutale Cahors takes us back to the roots of Malbec, in a good way. Very dark purple to a thin garnet edge, it needs a little time to open up in the glass, whereupon it reveals enticing aromas of red plums, tart cherries, and cranberries that carry over in the intense, rather rustic flavor, with marked acidity and a pleasant earthy back note.
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Whenever I open a German wine, I wonder why I don’t do it more often. German wine can be delicious, but it’s just different enough to keep me away.
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Clear and pale-gold, Zimmer Mosel Riesling Spätlese breathes mixed citrus and pear aromas and a characteristic whiff of oily minerality that spells Riesling. Flavors mirror the nose in a sweet but refreshing flavor profile. Fresh, light acidity and stony minerality become more evident in the long, tart-sweet finish. Light 8% alcohol.
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Sometimes in family-owned businesses there comes a time for a change. When Roberto Di Filippo sold his interest in Di Filippo Winery to family members and started a smaller Umbrian winery, then created a winery in Romania, Neil Duarte was interested in what was behind Di Filippo’s thinking. Here’s his interview. Read article.
