Archive for the ‘Consider This Wine’ Category
Napa’s Chateau Montelena Sold to Bordeaux’s Cos d’Estournel "This is the ultimate recognition, that the French are now buying these great California wineries," said Jon Fredrikson, a wine industry consultant and publisher of the Gomberg-Fredrikson report" "It’s just evidence of the growing respect for what is being done in America with wine."—Vic Motto California’s winemaking prowess matched that of France and the rest of the world years ago. I wonder if this sale isn’t a matter of the French trying…
I think I’ve mentioned before just how much I enjoyed it when Wark Communications was working with Roshambo Winery. I truly got an education. It is rare to find a winery that in addition to being committed to making unique and fine wines, are also committed, naturally, to doing things differently. Roshambo does do things differently. As is almost always the case, this difference is purely a result of the disposition of those who run the joint. Naomi Brilliant and…
I was watching a little television this weekend. For some reason, I kept coming across Clooney in a variety of different roles and it occurred to me that Wine needs George Clooney…or at least a Clooneyesque replacement. Guys like George Clooney. Well, they like what George Clooney portrays. First, he always gets the girl. He is, in fact, the only guy on my wife’s laminated card and I suspect he’s on just about every over 35 married woman’s laminated card….
A new website has opened its doors that reminds me just how extraordinarily empowering the Internet is. Prior to the Internet’s development it would have been impossible for a brick and mortar version of Israeli Wine Direct to survive anywhere in the United States. The focus and selection of wines at this new on-line retailer is so specific and exclusive it quite literally would have been passed by and perhaps glanced at no matter where in America it opened its…
And your mission is, if you choose to accept it: Create a criteria for choosing the top ten (the "Grand Cru") Pinot Noir vineyards in California. Not Top Ten Producers, but Top Ten Pinot Noir vineyards. This topic of building such a criteria came up today when I was speaking first with a pretty well known Pinot producer and it arose again when I was speaking with a very knowledgeable wine writer who has a real passion for Pinot. All…
