I paired a new to me grape variety – Poulsard, from the Jura region of France, with a classic Filipino dish – Menudo About Jura I can honesty say that I’ve virtually visited every wine region in the world that has been on my vinous “bucket list”. One of, perhaps, a handful of exceptions was…
Tag: Wine Tasting
Wine of the Day: 2014 Bruce Patch Wines “Patchwork”
2014 Bruce Patch Wines “Patchwork…a delicious Zinfandel lead “kitchen sink” blend of 8 grape varieties Fruit for this wine was sourced from a patchwork of vineyards throughout the Alexander and Sonoma Valley. It is a blend of 67% zinfandel with carignane, cabernet franc, malbec, merlot, petite sirah, sangiovese and petit verdot, aged in French and…
Wine of the Day: 2013 Fields Family Wines Tempranillo
2013 Fields Family Wines Tempranillo: A Lodi Tempranillo whose savory character evokes Rioja Fruit for this wine was sourced from the first Tempranillo vineyard planted in Lodi. It was fermented on native yeast, and raised in neutral French oak. Bottled unfined/unfiltered. Dark ruby color with exuberant black cherry, cigar box , plum, damp earth…
Wine of the Day – 2014 Seed Malbec
Seed Wine is a boutique winery crafting less than 200 cases of wine annually. Fruit for this wine was grown in the prestigious and rugged Altamira district of the Uco Valley from 42-year-old ungrafted Malbec vines grown in well-drained alluvial clay, limestone and gravel soils. The cool, high elevation vineyard is situated at the extreme…
2012 Weingut Angerhof-Tschida Grüner Veltliner Eiswein
The 2012 Weingut Angerhof Tschida Grüner Veltliner Eiswein is an ice wine from the Burgenland region in Eastern Austria. Burgenland is Austria’s key red wine region ( the main grapes being Blaufrankisch and and Zweigelt). But sweet, primarily botrytized, wines are also a specialty of the region. This wine is a rarity. That’s because ice wine of Grüner Veltliner doesn’t often come…
S.R.Tonella Cellars 2014 Sauvignon Blanc
S.R. Tonella Cellars is a Napa Valley artisanal producer focused exclusively on the Rutherford appellation. Steve Tonella (read his bio here) is the proprietor. The winery is the culmination of over 100 continuous years in the wine business in Rutherford, Napa Valley. It all started with an earthquake. In 1906 after the great San Francisco earthquake, a…
A Taste of True Myth Wines
True Myth is a specialty appellation winery that produces wines from regions along California’s Central Coast, focusing on Chardonnay from Edna Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon from Paso Robles recently announced a nationwide launch of its wines. I recently received two sample of the wines: 2014 True Myth Chardonnay Paragon Vineyard – Crafted from grapes grown solely…
Wines At Our Table; January 31st 2016
Over the course of a week, my wife and I drink a bunch o’wine – almost always with food. Since I’ve always been fascinated by wine at the table with food, I thought it would be fun to recap not only the wines we’ve been drinking, but also how they pair (or don’t pair) with the foods at our table. It features…
Wines At Our Table; January-17-2016
Over the course of a week, my wife and I drink a bunch o’wine – almost always with food. Since I’ve always been fascinated by wine at the table with food, I thought it would be fun to recap not only the wines we’ve been drinking, but also how they pair (or don’t pair) with the foods at our table. It features…
A #SundayFunday in Sonoma Valley
Last weekend my wife and I decided, spur of the moment, to head up Sonoma to go to the Fremont Diner and then do some wine tasting. We got off to a later start than we hoped for. When we arrived at the Fremont Diner we were told it would be a 90 minute wait…