Appellation Wines

Juice on the Block" will be a collection of content about wine at auction. There are a good deal of good deals to be had (particularly now, Autumn '09) at auction, and it will be part of the goal of this group to track...

Yoshi, The Seven Deadly Zins is a blend of ...wait...you guessed it, Zinfandel juice from seven different vineyards in the Lodi Appellation in California. It is put out by Michael and David Phillips. This wine is typical...

This subject is near and dear to me. My wife loathes white Rhones, mostly due to the fact that she craves acidity in her whites and several of the white Rhones she's tried verge on the soft, plump end of the spectrum....

Expectations and experience tend to soften excitement in wine, muffling the high pitch of greatness to meager moans. It can be difficult to savor the high highs once a sensory resume has been established, just as the...

Carmignano   I will devote this column to the small appellation of Carmignano. Carmignano is the Tuscan appellation closest to where we are living in Prato. It is small and had to fight for its inclusion in the DOCG...

One of the things that continues to amaze me is the just the sheer number of wineries that there are in Northern California. I’ve been to a lot of them but there are so many more that I have not been to. That’s why,...

"Any wines you particilarly like from Languedoc-Roussillon?" Oh la la, as the French say (and they really do). Where to start? Here are a few highlights tasted recently anyway: Mas Mouriès "Les Myrthes" red (I was lucky...

Winter White Wonderland   The Cotes Du Rhone wine region is a place of mystery to many American wine drinkers.  If pressed, your average wine lover might be able to specify that Rhone is actually an area in France but...

I'm kind of in agreement with you. Damn! But I've been very much enjoying the 2004 vintage in the south Rhone. Seems to me that they got things right - the ripeness was held in check, and the wines seem better...

An interesting read regarding the oft-underestimated Virginia vino and some good stuff from Cali- against the French. Of course: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/08/18/ST2009081802401.html Glass...