Please excuse this brief interruption to your day drinking to let you know that my latest (and penultimate) piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy’s Pouring Points is now live: What Can We Learn from the World’s Top Rosé Wines? In said op-ed, I take a look at what I perceive to be the unfair treatment…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for July 31, 2023
2015 Casanova di Neri ‘Rosso-Irrosso di Casanova di Neri’ Sant’Antimo (Tuscany): Whoa. That’s a lot of vivacity… Like battery acid levels of it. $28 B+
2015 Badia a Coltibuono ‘Roberto Stucchi RS’ Cultusboni (Chianti Classico): Still in fighting form! Maybe RS stands for Retains Freshness? $16 B
2020 Marchesi Alfieri ‘Alfiera’, Barbera d’Asti Superiore (Piedmont): This is pretty big. It’s also pretty tasty, and pretty dark (for Asti B, that is). $25 B+
All In The Family (Checking Back In With Domaine Bousquet)
Interestingly, I first met Domaine Bousquet’s Anne Bousquet the same day that I met my partner Shannon… and tasted with Domaine Bousquet again online just days before our daughter Gianna was born. So I seem to have some sort of strange, cosmic, family connection with this Argentine wine mainstay. I suppose that I am hereby…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for July 24, 2023
NV Cockburn’s No. 1 Special Reserve Port (Portugal): Getting the job done with rich, baking spice-laden flair. $20 B
NV Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut (Champagne): Nutty, toasty, fruity, poised, and surprisingly up for a good time. $60 A-
2019 Tinto Pesquera Crianza (Ribera del Duero): This is all smoky, gamey, plummy goodness, with a side of warming spices. $28 B+…