Archive for the ‘Consider This Wine’ Category
*******************************************************************************************Don’t forget to take the Fermentation Survey!CLICK HERE to take the survey…All I ask is three minutes of your day.******************************************************************************************* I considered making this an obligatory post about the obligatory media story about thanksgiving wines. But what fun is that? I think the only way to properly treat the topic of what to drink on thanksgiving day is to treat it the same way we treat the food we eat on this day: Celebrate Diversity! There’s nothing better, nothing more…
The folks at Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) have released to the media the fascinating results of a survey of Zinfandel producers. In it we see on display the hopes, concerns and views of one of the more interesting slices of the winemaker universe. There is a great deal of information in this survey report. So much so that I don’t want to go into all of it. But I do want to hit some highlights…or at least highlight some…
Yesterday’s New York Sun ran a rather interesting and entertaining article on the crazy ascent in prices of the worlds most collectible wines. The star of the show these days is, apparently,1945 Mouton Rothschild, which recently sold for $290,000 for a case. According to the article many of the "trophy wines" are spiraling up in price, a trend that began in the early fall. The question is why? Jeff Zacharia of Zachys Auction House explains the upward momentum this way:…
My wife sometimes complains that too often I’ll open a bottle of wine, sit with a half a glass or a full glass, then never touch the bottle again. It’s true. I’m interested in tasting more than I am in drinking. The exception is low alcohol Rieslings. Those I drink…all the way down to the bottom. Yesterday night I was sucking on a 1999 von Schubert Maximim Grunhauser Abtsburg Riesling Spatlese. It’s around 8% alcohol. It’s a beautiful, somewhat exotic,…
Expectations! They can "do in" a wine or elevate it to heights we never expected. But sometimes our expectations for a wine are met so perfectly that there can be no lamenting, no elation…just acknowledgment of what we expected. Personally, I prefer to be elated or disappointed by a wine. This was driven home this past weekend as I broke open a couple bottles of wine: 1996 Rochioli Reserve Sauvignon Blanc (Russian River Valley)1996 Mondavi To-Kalon I Block Fume Blanc…
