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Wines have an extraordinary capacity to reflect the environment in which they’re grown. A point not lost on the current crop of American vintners eager to have their wine express increasingly smaller plots of land.

Against this read more...trend of vineyard-designated wines comes THIRTEEN — a wine made not from a single vineyard but from a baker’s dozen, each one more esteemed than the next. What distinguishes these vineyards is that they have been chosen as the best representatives of their respective sub-appellations: Howell Mountain, Rutherford, etc. Napa Valley has 13 of these sub-appellations, or did, when we picked the fruit. (More on this in a moment.) The idea behind THIRTEEN was to blend one ton of grapes from each of these 13 vineyards to create a wine that is conspicuously connected to Napa Valley. A wine that is the truest expression of what the Valley has to offer. As far as we know, no one has ever tried to capture Napa in its totality. Our guess is, no one’s even thought of it. It is, after all, a daunting task to collect grapes from every soil type, every microclimate, every terroir. But the question remains: is this invention of ours a good idea? We’ll leave that for you to discover.    (hide)

Karen Ulrich

October 2009

Karen Ulrich

Experiments in the Vegetarian Kitchen with Beaujolais and Butternut Mac & Cheese Karen UlrichIMBIBE NEW YORK Tucked away just south of Mâcon, at the tail end of Burgundy, sits Beaujolais—the oft neglected, yet vigorous...

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ChipDWood wrote in the forum topic: Looking for a "starter" cab-dominated French Bordeaux

July 2009

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Two quick suggestions: 1) Go Spanish, young man: http://www.snooth.com/wine/ercavio-roble-2006-1/ The Ercavio is a $13 bottle that acts like a $20, easy, and has all that you require plus a surprisingly lush, smokey...

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OmarS reviewed Fourteen Napa Valley Meritage 2004:

September 2007

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Fourteen Napa Valley Meritage 2004

Starting at $402^.50 Snoothrank: 3.5/5

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Philip wrote in the forum topic: 25 new partners

July 2007

Philip

This was supposed to go out yesterday, but we got carried away. Anyway, here's ... Kapcsandy Family Winery 13 Appellations Artisan Wine Merchants Sonoma-Cutrer Spring Mountain Vineyard Londer Vineyards Kosta...

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