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Model Resolutions, continued:
#2 Eat More Foie Gras
This is my personal New Year’s resolution for 2007, actually. And it has something of a dark back story. You see, my former neighbor used to run an intimate, tasty restaurant in Sonoma called Sonoma Saveurs, known in [...]
ShareDear Wine Girl:
I have a big dinner meeting soon and I was hoping to bring something special. What would you think about a 1970 Lynch Bages? (Here are the tasting notes from the retailer I was thinking of buying the bottle from. It’s $299.) If I brought that to dinner would you be sufficiently impressed?
Signed,
Only [...]
ShareI was inspired to make this the Word of the Week by a dear friend of mine who came home from a Sun Valley ski trip to with a case of Idaho wine. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had a wine from the state better known for potatoes. I asked him [...]
ShareA beautiful, vibrant gold color with a tinge of green invites all tasters fed up (drunk up?) with over-oaked, mass-produced California chardonnay. It’s followed by a delicate bouquet of apples, peaches and honeysuckle. Medium-bodied but deep, with a core of fresh, ripe apple and pear flavors — perhaps a little blood orange — perfectly draped [...]
Share (Part three of my South African wine and travel report; click here for part two, and here for part one.)
The consensus among South African vintners is that the future of wine in South Africa depends on how gracefully it can ditch its past – and by past they mean not only the vestiges of [...]
ShareBecause they always involve giving something up, generally I hate New Year’s resolutions. But then I fell in love with wine. With so many unsampled varieties out there, it made sense to my novitiate mind to promise at the outset of every year to delve into a wine I might otherwise neglect. This spirit expanded [...]
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Today’s wine word comes to you by way of Matt (pictured here with me), the national sales manager at Larkmead Vineyards, who, during a recent visit to the tasting room, described one of Larkmead’s reds as having “riparian” earth notes. The adjective describes the green belt next to a river or stream, so we’re guessing [...]
Share(Part two of my South African wine and travel report; click here for part one.)
Although they’ve been widely available in the U.K. and Northern Europe for decades, wines from South Africa are just getting a foothold in the U.S. market. They’re mostly represented at the bargain level by Fairview’s line of inexpensive whites, reds, and [...]
ShareI decanted this bruiser for an hour before we drank it, but it could have taken even more. The color is dark purple, almost black, all the way up to the edges. Swirling aromas of violets, olive tapenade, and notes of fresh tar spill forth from the glass, followed by a medium-to-full bodied, teeth-staining liquid, [...]
ShareI love it when a winery has a great produce and a great story. Larkmead is a perfect example. Founded in the nineteenth century by the parents of Lilly Coit, the socialite, transvestite, and benefactress behind the famous, undeniably phallic monument to her beloved San Francisco firemen, Larkmead’s 1,000 acres of prime vineyards are perfectly [...]