2017 Brennan Vineyards Reserve Lily White (Texas): Cantaloupe, citrus, and copious amounts of captivating, crowd-pleasing capability. $25 B 2018 Rodney Strong Rose of Pinot Noir (Russian River Valley): Life’s a bowl of cherries. And grapefruit peel. And rose petals. And fun. $18 B+ 2018 Rodney Strong Charlotte’s Home Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma County): Flint, flowers,…
A Call for Calm for Claret Lovers (Talking about Bordeaux’s New Grapes for NVWA)
You claret lovers just need to chill the F out… That’s the major message in my latest piece for the Napa Valley Wine Academy blog, titled Calm Down and Drink Your Claret: Bordeaux’s New Grape Approvals Aren’t All That Radical. Those of you reading this will most likely have heard the news that Bordeaux is…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For October 7, 2019
2015 Freigut Thallern Student Rotgipfler (Thermenregion): If it’s friends that you want to make, then by gawd, with peachy goodness like that, it’s friends you shall receive! $NA B+ 2017 Alphart am Mühlbach Zierfandler Ried Otzler (Thermenregion): Hello, dad… Hello, mom… I’m your l-l-l-l-l-LEMON bommmmmb! $NA B 2016 Weingut Stadlmann Mandel-Hoh Zierfandler (Thermenregion): I’ll take…
Making Hay (Rowen Recent Releases)
The word rowen – which is of Middle English ancestry, from an Old Northern French variant of regain, and almost certainly will have your phone’s auto-correct annoyingly trying to change it to rower – almost literally means to make hay. Well, technically, it means “a second growth of grass or hay in one season” –…