Bouza Winery is small even by Uruguay’s petite wine production standards. 25 hectares of vineyards spread out between two plantings, in the Melilla and Las Violetas regions near Montevideo, yielding about 120 thousand bottles a year. But you wouldn’t know it tasting their wines, which are bold, modernly stylized (okay, and in a few cases…
Category: overachiever wines
Pence In The Sta. Rita Hills Cross Hairs, But How’s The Wine?
Central Coast-ish California’s Pence Ranch, and its charismatic owner, Blair Pence (who, with toothy grin and cowboy hat looks every bit the part of a rancher) have been making the wine scene headlines so far in 2013, and not in a good way. To bring you up to speed on what has become the U.S….
Righting Wine Award Wrongs (Merced del Estero 2012 Mil Vientos Torrontes)
Merced del Estero, in the über-sunny San Juan region of Argentina, has been tending vineyards under the care of the familia Rodriguez for three generations, since 1897. But it took me just one iteration of the annual Argentina Wine Awards to help screw them up a little bit. MdE was one of the producer visit stops…
Revisiting The Wine + Chocolate Pairing Mine Field
About a year ago, I unwittingly unleashed a minor sh*tstorm when I taste-tested some very good chocolates and paired them with some very good wine and found the match up to be not-so-very-good. The main issue then was that the very good chocolates in question were designed specifically to pair with wines. And yet, time…