This late in the COVID SIP game, the entire wine industry pretty much has the ZOOM tasting thing down pat. The flurry of tasting invites has been getting intense in the final stretch of 2020, so much so that I’ve been a) having to decline several competing tastings, b) totally losing track of what sample…
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Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 14 (What We Drank to Toast Democracy)
Well… in what is amounting to, put charitably, quite a year now contains one of the most well-THAT-was-quite-a-week moments arguably in U.S (world?) history. In case you haven’t heard (presumably because you’ve been fortunate enough to have been stranded on a beautiful, remote island somewhere with an almost unlimited amount of Madeira stashed in caves…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 13 (The Evolution of Modern Carménère with Terra Noble)
The evolutionary winemaking journey of what we might call modern Carménère red wines in Chile looks something like this: Treating it like Merlot because they actually thought it was Merlot -> Living with the fact that its tannins were just going to be green and harsh, tough nuggies -> Over-ripening the bejeezus out of the…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 12 (CARO Recent Releases)
Admittedly, I kind of wanted to hate CARO. Not because of the wine, which as you’ll read in a minute or two is well worth talking about, but because it’s just the kind of big-wine-companies-joint venture (between Argentina’s Catena and France’s Lafite Rothschild) that is almost too clever for its own good. Almost. The idea…