vintages

Ciao Cigarman, This means that the law/wine legislation does not require that ... that you can use a blend of vintages as long as it can be proved that the wine used is Barolo DOCG. If it's usual to blend vintages then...

Beaujolais Nouveau can be delicious with lots of red fruit and flowers on the ... wines can improve in good vintages with 5 years or more bottle aging. So enjoy. Without guilt

Funny. I put together a CF tasting this week. Some good stuff too. All CA, ... so as not to mix both vintages and regions. The group as a whole loved the wines from CA far more than those from France. I was an...

I am curious why nobody has mentioned the proverbial home of Cabernet Franc ... of warning though: in poorer vintages, these wines can be a bit acidic, unbalanced and weedy - a shock to your palate if you are expecting...

Sounds good, Eric, but I suggest you also keep looking around for other soleras/houses and vintages in your price range, if nothing else than for your own enjoyment and education.... You can also try to throw a couple of...

Juice on the Block" will be a collection of content about wine at auction. ... Glorias produced over recent vintages. Both the 1996 and 1995 are uncommonly hedonistic, plump, and precociously-styled wines. Low in acidity,...

The Barossa Valley clearly provides a consistent array of pretty impressive ... examples from the better vintages can be tiring on the palate. For some (though not necessarily the writer) the Oz approach to wine might,...

Thanks. I'm not familiar with that importer, but will look into it. I had my ... I understand the '89 and '90 vintages were very strong, so felt pretty safe, but you never know. I don't know who the big producers there...

Flandry, SAv Blanc does work well, in fact most wines works well except for latest vintages cabernet or merlot based wines. If you have some aged ones such as bordeaux it would work as well.

Decanting is usually a good idea (especially for reds) and it helps to get rid ... surprised if the current vintages of 7 Deadly Zins or Earthquake anything would have much sediment. Oh and BBQ can be a whole different...