NV Mionetto Prosecco di Valdobbiadene Cartizze (Veneto): Crisp green apples, freshly baked bread, barrels full of fun. $35 A- NV Pizzolato Paloma Brut Rose Spumante (Italy): Blindingly-gaudy bling packaging aside, this has serious freshness & is a lot more refined on the inside. $17 B+ 2016 Cecchi ‘Valore di Famiglia’ (Chianti Classico Gran Selezione): Earthy,…
Top 10 1WineDude Articles of 2020 (Year of the Book Edition)
And so here we are… finally… with 2020, the year of SiP, virtual tastings, and no being able to actually visit one another about to head into the rear-view mirror, well, view. It seems an appropriate time to take a brief look back on the last twelve months in this particular corner of the Global…
Gonna Take a Newwwwwws Break (Follow 1WineDude on the New App!)
So… I went and did a thing. I’ve partnered up with news app News Break to provide some (hopefully!) fun and informative wine content. I’ll be steadily ramping up articles on their platform over the next few months (1WineDude.com isn’t going anywhere, by the way; this is an additional venture that I took on, in…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For December 28, 2020
2017 Luce della Vite ‘Lucente’ (Tuscany): Tangy rusticity meets polished refinement. $29 A- 2016 Odfjell Armador Cabernet Sauvignon (Maipo Valley): Herbal, dark, and almost forcefully tasty. $NA B+ 2017 Concha y Toro ‘Terrunyo’ Block 27 Peumo Vineyard Carmenere (Cachapoal Valley): Big black cherry, big black tobacco, big black tongue stain, and big, full, happy belly….