The Wine Stop

I will stop by when I get there.

This year I got the opportunity to participate in a winery employee project. Me and a few of other employees at Loxton Cellars got half a ton of Syrah grapes to make our own wine from. We’ll do all the work and we’ll...

Two Chefs Compare Notes One's a little country, one's a little big city. I’ve read a lot of cookbooks in my life. Some are indispensible reference works, some are entirely dispensable regifts, and...

Remembered a couple of things after posting the last. One was how many times I've had decent roses in Switzerland. Look for what's called Oeil-de-Perdrix (eye of the partridge, for the shade of pink of a partridge's eye as...

Interesting comments. I think people forget that Australia produced fortified wines for many years. Even more interesting is that they were using Touriga Nacional in 1979. From the guys I've spoken to, I got the...

A Morning in Houston with Drops of Golden Dew: Dotson-Cervantes Gotas de Oro It was 9:30 on a weekday morning when the door bell rang. I expected this as, the evening before, I received a call from Alphonse Dotson. He...

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...

I personally am unaware of any dedicated wine auction sites that don't have a minimum lot value or bottle/case quantity for sellers. Sellers with cellars...ok, I'll stop.

GregDP, am not sure (nor in agreement) on the need for decanting, much less double decanting for well aged bottles. Are you trying that much harder to cut out any hint of sediment? Can you always get all the debris out of...

"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...