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- Rodney Strong, Rockaway Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:40:39 +0000
My wine education started with Cabernet Sauvignon in the early 1980’s. After a brief time with Bordeaux blends, I discovered California Cabernet and used to almost exclusively drink this variety daily. I soon discovered the magic of single vineyard Cabs and the majority of my most memorable wines are from these vineyards. Places like To [...] - Taste Wine With Me Tomorrow
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:49:48 +0000
Just a reminder that in less than 24 hours the Twitter Taste Live event will be taking place. Join me on Twitter at 4pm PST/7pm EST tomorrow. We’ll be tasting an array of wines from Hugel including their luscious Gewurztraminer Vendange Tardive 2001. The tasting has been organized by Bin Ends Wine who have provided the [...] - WBW 48: Roots Wines
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:35:07 +0000
Tonight is the 4th anniversary of Wine Blogging Wednesday, our monthly virtual tasting. And for the 48th edition, founder Lenn Thompson has asked we go back to our wine roots and taste wines we drank when we first got into wine. Like many wine lovers, my journey started with California jug wines. Since I came of [...] - Taste Wine With Me Live And Virtually
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:33:40 +0000
Next week I will be tasting some wines and posting my notes on Twitter. I’ve done this for a while now but this is the first time I’d like you to join me live. And I really mean live as I’ll have five bottles of Hugel wine with me in Healdsburg next week and, if you [...] - Has The Time Come For $45 Box Wines?
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:50:22 +0000
Tonight I finally opened a wine sample I received earlier this year… a 3L box of California Chardonnay. I’m not much of a box wine guy because most I’ve had are really nothing to write about. At best, they are clean, simple wines sold at low prices. And this sample is not plowing that much [...] - Winecast 75 - Etienne Hugel
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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:34:38 +0000
I’m back with an interview with Etienne Hugel of Hugel & Fils. This family winery has been passed from father to son for 12 generations and makes some of the best wines from France’s Alsace region. We also talk about a virtual tasting over Twitter organized by Bin Ends Wines later this month. Show Notes: 00:25 - [...] - The 3,000 Tweet/Follower Challenge
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:10:15 +0000
I’ve been tweeting about wine for a long time now but have not really set any goals for my participation. That ends tonight. From now until Labor Day (a “bank holiday” in the U.S. for UK readers), I will be striving to get to my goal of 3,000 tweets AND 3,000 followers. Since I only have a [...] - Reflections on 89 points
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:56:24 +0000
Note: This is a cross-post from a new multi-author blog devoted to the discussion of 89 point wines. An interesting idea that I hope will generate some more conversation on the subject. Like many people who review wine, I use the 100 point scale. It’s not because I think this is the best system — and [...] - Best Wine Blog Posts for June 14th through July 25th
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:33:09 +0000
Best of the wine blogosphere for June 14th through July 25th: 2005 Phifer Pavitt Heidi Peterson Barrett on the Cos-Montelena deal Messages in a Bottle: Ode to the Blended Wine You can’t share a bottle online Wine Book Club 4: Tasting Pleasure Details on Amazon’s Upcoming Wine Program Millennials Prefer Personable Eco-Friendly Brands Decanter News : Cos d’Estournel buys Chateau Montelena Techcrunch Party [...] - Back From The Dead
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:05:51 +0000
Although aggregator readers might have thought I was taking some more time off, those who visited this site over the past few days noticed that Winecast was down. Most of the time this is due to a short term outage with my web host but this time it was a corrupt Wordpress installation. So if you [...] - First Look: iPhone Wine Apps
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:14:38 +0000
The new iPhone 3G rolled out this morning all across the U.S. completing it’s worldwide launch that started yesterday in New Zealand. Much has been written online about the new device but one of the biggest changes since last year’s first edition is the ability for 3rd party applications to run on the phone. And [...] - WBW 47: Brought To You By The Letter ?S?
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:50:18 +0000
For Wine Blogging Wednesday this month, our hosts Erin and Michelle from Grape Juice have presented us with a theme inspired by television series Sesame Street: Today’s Wine Brought To You By The Letter “S”. For those not familiar with the show, Sesame Street presented the alphabet to pre-school children one letter at a time [...] - St. Supery, Rose 2006
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:30:54 +0000
Summer is the time for dry rose as they pair well with warm weather fare and are refreshing when more full bodied reds seem too heavy. So I was pleased when this wine sample arrived at the beginning of the season to get my rose tasting started. I’ll be posting more rose notes as we [...] - Does This Thing Still Work?
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:33:48 +0000
My apologies for the lack of content these past several weeks. All is well and I will return to regular programming shortly. Thanks to all who checked in… - Best Wine Blog Posts for May 5th through May 11th
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:51:00 +0000
Best of the wine blogosphere for May 5th through May 11th: California Wine: The Final Synchronized Flush How are wine bloggers changing the wine industry? Wine Blogginâ?? Wednesday: Old World Riesling The Future of Online Wine Sales Wine Blogging Wednesday #45: Old World Riesling Old World Riesling for WBW #45 SFGate: Wine : THE CHRONICLE SELECTIONS: Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Does [...] - WBW 45: Old World Riesling
Thu, 08 May 2008 02:21:18 +0000
The Mosel was the first wine region I toured. It was back in the summer of 1971 when I was almost 11, so I was not tasting any wines. But the impact of that visit stuck with me when a decade later I first got into wine. The black cat label of Zeller Schwartz Katz [...] - Best Wine Blog Posts for April 20th through May 3rd
Sat, 03 May 2008 16:06:01 +0000
Best of the wine blogosphere for April 20th through May 3rd: 2005 Piña Napa Valley Score Whore! Industry vs. Non Industry Vin de Napkin - Wine Snob SFGate: Wine : Label watch: Heribert Kerpen A Century of Riesling Wine Twitters Wine Critics are Parasites, But That Doesn’t Mean We Can Be Bought Vin de Napkin - Frankenwine vs. Spoofulation Wine and Spirit magazine [...] - WBC 2: Noble Rot
Sat, 03 May 2008 01:29:06 +0000
The wines of France’s Bordeaux region have long been a benchmark for quality due to a combination of tradition, terroir and mystique. William Echikson’s “Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine Revolution” attempts to lift the veil and show the inside of the Bordeaux wine trade which makes for some fascinating reading. Mr. Echikson is the Brussels bureau [...] - Vare Vineyards, Bianco Riserva 2005
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:07:35 +0000
George and Elsa Vare love the white wine blends of Italy and have devoted Vare Vineyards to the pursuit of making this style of wine in Napa Valley. They are not new to the wine business having co-founded Luna Vineyards and this experience shows in the bottle. I first tasted Vare wines at the recent [...] - Pax Cellars, Syrah, Griffin?s Lair 2004
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:11:52 +0000
Pax Mahle has been making some of the most interesting and complex Syrah in California for nearly a decade now. Although he makes other Rhone varietals, Syrah is his focus with several vineyard designated offerings each year. In tasting 2005 Pax Syrah from the barrel last year, I was impressed with the range of aromas [...] - Best Wine Blog Posts for April 13th through April 18th
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:39:55 +0000
Best of the wine blogosphere for April 13th through April 18th: Does Taste Have a Price? Perhaps We Should Just Call It All â??Sparkly-Stuffâ?? SFGate: Wine : The Chronicle Wine Selections: 2006 German QbA and Kabinett Rieslings Does Expensive Wine Taste Better Than Cheap Wine? SFGate: Wine : Pairings: A sweet and sour match for German Riesling Rioja Grapes: The 6 [...] - Riesling Picks and Noble Rot is coming!
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:48:21 +0000
The San Francisco Chronicle has posted a number of German Riesling reviews that would be great for the next Wine Blogging Wednesday in a few weeks. Most of them are $25 or less and several different German regions are represented. It’s almost time for the next round of the Wine Book Club which I am also [...] - Are Place Names Important or Just Semantics?
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:33:47 +0000
I get a lot of press releases but don’t often publish them here as I don’t usually find an angle to blog about. But a release this morning by the Center for Wine Origins and Office of Champagne caught my eye for it’s use of a YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIprAxt7pXE As a longtime wine lover, I agree with [...] - Best Wine Blog Posts for April 7th through April 11th
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:40:53 +0000
Best of the wine blogosphere for April 7th through April 11th: looks like i’m back drinking the stormhoek kool-aid again Wine Pricing Could Stand a Correction WBW #45: Old World Riesling The Problem With Gary Vaynerchuk Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon, Interview Neal Family Vineyards, Napa: Current Releases Do wine blogs and expensive wine make a good blend? Substance and Wine-ing 2.0 Wine Book [...] - Old World Riesling for WBW 45
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:01:47 +0000
In the long and storied history of Wine Blogging Wednesday, several bloggers have hosted the monthly virtual tasting twice. But only one, founder Lenn Thompson of LENNDEVOURS, has hosted three times. As of today, you can add my name to the WBW three-peat list as I again take up the reins and choose the theme. The [...]
