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A Bootful of Wine - Tasting Notes from Italy A visit to Terrabianca Terrabianca is a medium sized winery in the heart of the Chianti region, in Radda, located just north of Sienna. It is owned by a German, Roberto...

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...

So a question in one of these threads, or perhaps in a comments thread on one of my articles got me thinking about my favorite varietal wines. First off I will have to group my answer in two parts, noble wines and not...

This is pretty common, but the spread here is quite wide. You have to remember that Robert Parker's Wine Advocate employs the wildly enthusiastic and non-discriminatory palate of a certain Dr. Jay Miller to promote the...

well, the more affordable favorites of mine, are Conde de Valdemar Rioja. As most traditional Riojas, there are three levels of wine, Crianza, Reserva, and Gran Reserva. The difference lies in the amount of time the wine...

Thanks for the welcome guys. Philip, unless you have been to these fair shores, I suspect you have not seen our best sparkling shiraz, some of which command a $A70-80 price tag and would stand up for notice in any wine...

Ok, sort of tough. Starting with the Pinot makes sense. The Elizabeth Spenser cab is a rather restrained style and the odd man out among the remaining bottles so I would be tempted to slide it in next. I would follow...

I have enjoyed drinking a very affordable Ventouw wine earlier this year with the funny name Chat en Oeuf (Cat on Egg) with reference to the obviously neighboring terroir classic ending with -du Pape Holland's largest...