Wine Spots Wines

• April 2013

  Hello:A bit of a long question, I apologize. I'm trying to train my palate and learn blind tasting by assembling groups of 100% varietal wines that are (supposedly) true representative.Right now I want to assemble a group of wines that will illustrate how to differentiate Argentine Malbec from Carmenere, and pick out similar wines. I don't even ... Read More

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• April 2013

  Today's article is a bit of an anomaly for these pages: it speaks neither of wine nor food, but rather of a very important tool: the grill. The idea of grilling season may be somewhat limited on an intellectual level, but on an emotional level, breaking out the grill for the first time can elicit the same joy that the first daffodils and crocus ... Read More

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• April 2013

  Yeah, I know, drink the beer!  Why would a wine fan want to travel to a place better known for beer anyway?  Well, my ancestry is Bohemian, so I wanted to see a bit of my roots in the Czech Republic, so a hundred thousand frequent flyer miles later and I am in business class to Prague!  So I've read they do have a wine country there, but if you ... Read More

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• February 2013

  Hi! I live in Pennsylvania, specifically, State College (home of Penn State University).  I grew up along lake Erie where wine grapes grow prolifically and Welch's has one of the largest grape juice producing plant. My family has visited Napa and Sonoma valleys. We also have enjoyed some of the wineries in New York state around the finger lake r... Read More

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• February 2013

  The Zinner party was last night, but preparations began a week or two ago when I realized I had accumulated some Zins that needed consuming.  I had been lured by a cellar sale on BPWine that featured a ton of Turley wines from different vineyards at really attractive prices.  By the time I pulled the trigger, the best values appeared to be a 200... Read More

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• February 2013

  In years gone by I have drunk a lot of Zin, but it is almost always consumed within 2-3 years of the harvest.  I have let some high alcohol zins (specifically Opolo Mt Zin) go for 4 years and they had turned flabby and off tasting.  Last night I came across a bottle of Seghesio Sonoma 2007, which is their cheapest and simplest zin, and had it.  ... Read More

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• February 2013

  Hi Everyone,I´m recently joined to Snooth and fully motivated to get going. Having toured around Argentina and Chile tasting wines, my partner and I head up to San Fransisco to tour the US West Coast in March.Does anyone here have a recommendation for one day circuits we could do? We probably have 2 days for California wines, and have been recom... Read More

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• January 2013

  I absolutely love wine. Snooth is one of the reasons I love the mystique of wine because it  offers me a forum to discuss wine and all of it's nuances, it's history, it's wonder, it's character, it's beauty. I work very hard at my profession even though I have scaled it down to 3 days per week. After my work I love good food and love to imbibe i... Read More

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• December 2012

  I came across an interesting article this morning at The Wine Searcher about some protectionist trade regulations that may cause Argentine wine prices to rise.In the article by W. Blake Gray, Paul Hobbs predicts that the regulations will signal the end of an era for high quality malbec that costs less than $12. Although I've never really been at... Read More

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• December 2012

  In another thread, I posted about my trip to the California Central Coast wine region.  One of the tasting rooms that I visited was the Ojai Vineyards, and among the wines that we tasted there was a 2006 Syrah.  I happened to overhear one of the other customers remark that 2006 seemed to have a few years of age on it for a current release.  The ... Read More

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