05 Cesari Mara Vino Di Ripasso (Valpolicella): Dried cherry action w/ some orange peel & spice happily complicating matters. Pass the pork. # 05 Ruffino Riserva Ducale (Chianti Classico): For all that complex dark cherry structure, it's starting to show a bit of age. Drink soon. # 07 Jackson-Triggs Vidal Icewine (Niagara): Like mango &…
Should 1WineDude.com Start Using Wine Ratings? Have Your Say!
Yes, I am actually going there. No, I don’t expect everyone to like it, which is why I am asking you what you think about it. Here’s the skinny: What It Is A grade I would give any wine reviewed on 1WineDude.com (and on the mini-wine review twitter feed). The grade would follow the ‘report…
A Taste of Heaven (Book Review)
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Austrian Wine Sweepstakes… via Facebook… and twitter
Those of you who dig Austrian wine (did someone say Grüner Veltliner? no? it was just me then…) and are looking fro something to do for seven days in 2010 might want to check out the Austrian Tourist Office’s “It’s Got To Be Austria” (yeah, I know, the name is a total #Fail) sweepstakes being…