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James Laube
Breakfast of Champions Tasting Club
Posted: 01:21 PM ET, 03/11/08
Yesterday I had one of those Monday morning, breakfast of champions wine tastings with Jayson Woodbridge of Hundred Acre.
He wanted to show me his wines and properties in Napa Valley and I suggested that for the tasting we sample a mix of his wines and others in a blind format. Read more
James Suckling
Balance Can Compensate for High Alcohol and Give Greatness
Posted: 12:23 PM ET, 03/11/08
A lot is said and written about high-alcohol wines and how they don't age, and how they are not great quality, and blah, blah, blah. But I think it really comes down to the balance of a wine. The quality and ageability of a great wine never comes down to one single figure such as the alcohol content, or anything else for that matter. Read more
James Molesworth
"Closeout"… One of My Favorite Words
Posted: 11:03 AM ET, 03/10/08
This weekend I bought some wine. That of course is nothing new. But it was the total purchase price that opened even my eyes. Not a penny more than $243 for two cases of wine. Not two bottles. Not a six-pack. Two full cases, of full bottles.
Sure there are tons of values out there and I’ve usually got a few bottles of "house wine" sitting in a bin. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Catching Up with Leonetti
Posted: 10:29 AM ET, 03/10/08
It has been several years since I visited with Gary Figgins and his winemaker son Chris at Leonetti in Walla Walla. I have always liked their wines. They are graceful wines; their rich textures and complex flavors find a balance with sufficient acidity and moderate alcohol levels. Read more
James Suckling
New Winemaker for the Great Bruno
Posted: 05:57 PM ET, 03/07/08
Bruno Giacosa, the grand poobah of Barolo and Barbaresco, has changed his winemaker. He has hired Giorgio Lavagna, the head winemaker for the Batasiolo winery in La Morra for 23 years. Giacosa’s former winemaker, Dante Scaglione, is moving on as a consultant in the region after 16 years with Giacosa. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Trying to Recapture the Magic
Posted: 01:49 PM ET, 03/07/08
The two men who started Rosemount Estate in 1974 are back in business together.
Bob Oatley, now 80 years old, and Chris Hancock, 67, have seen the ups and downs of the wine world, come out of a turbulent phase bloodied but unbowed, and now are betting that America is ready for the bright, juicy wines of Mudgee, where Oatley owns almost 1,200 acres. Read more
James Laube
Music and Tattoos that Go with WIne
Posted: 10:13 AM ET, 03/07/08
One of my bleaders (aka blog readers) asked if there are editorial restrictions, as in limits or boundaries, about what I (or my colleagues) could write in this space.
I suppose most blogs on this site should have a wine hook. I’ve written about stained red teeth and how to whiten them. Read more
Maynard Keenan
More Growing Pains
Posted: 09:35 AM ET, 03/06/08
Arizona's liquor laws are older than Betamax and Dick Clark and nowhere near as entertaining.
I decided to spread my wings a little and hooked up with an amazing broker for California. She loves the wines and her infectious excitement has motivated several otherwise exclusive wine lists to order my juice. Read more
James Laube
Annie and Andy's New Wine Act
Posted: 04:11 PM ET, 03/05/08
Husband-and-wife team Andy Erickson and Annie Favia bring some impressive credentials to their own wine company and are certainly worth following.
Erickson, 40, is a U.C. Davis enology grad who has worked for Harlan and Staglin and currently makes wine for Screaming Eagle, Arietta, Dalla Valle and Jonata and consults for Dancing Hares (a new 5-acre vineyard at the foot of Howell Mountain and wine label focusing on a Cabernet-Merlot-Cab Franc blend, due soon) and Ovid, a startup with its debut 2005 vintage due this fall. Read more
Kim Marcus
Should You Try an Israeli Wine?
Posted: 01:39 PM ET, 03/05/08
After my travels through Israel’s major wine regions—the Golan Heights and neighboring Galilee region, the Judean Hills near Jerusalem, and the coastal region between Tel Aviv and Haifa—I can answer yes to that question, with some definite provisos. Read more
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