As sunny California is still reeling from having to accept that the Philadelphia Eagles are conclusively, unarguably the greatest team in the NFL at the moment, even more bad news has hit the state’s wine industry—and, by extension, the USA’s wine industry (which California production volume dominates almost as much as the Birds dominated the…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for February 10, 2025
2023 Marques de Riscal Organic Verdejo (Rueda): Heady, perfumed, and lemony goodness at a price too reasonable to resist. $15 B+
2023 Lagar de Cervera Albarino (Rias Baixas): Leaps from the glass, but elegantly, like a ballerina. Fantastic value. $27 A-
2022 Pierre-Marie Chermette Domaine du Vissoux Fleurie ‘Poncie’ (Beaujolais): Floral, peppery, and the red berry action is surprisingly deep and hefty. The finish is spicy, long, and delightful. Niiiiice! $32 A-…
“Making New Wines for the Next Generation” (Getting Reacquainted with Kopke Ports)
Kopke‘s Port Master Blender Carla Tiago is quite resolved to the fact that she may never taste, in their final form, some of the wines she is working on now, because she might be dead by the time that they are fully developed. It’s not that Tiago is old (she’s not). It’s that Kopke’s Ports…
“Like a Memory of the Sea” (Ronchi di Castelluccio Recent Releases)
When describing what makes his family’s wines (and those from Italy’s Romagna in general) unique, Ronchi di Castelluccio‘s Aldo Mario Rametta keeps coming back to one thing: the soil. “The soil is like a memory of the sea,” he says (rather poetically) during an online tasting of some of his family’s recent releases (which also…