2019 Donnafugata Anthilia (Sicily): Jasmine on grapefruit pith, and overachieving zing on everything. $15 B+ 2018 Tasca d’Almerita Tenuta Regaleali Grillo Cavallo delle Fate (Sicily): It’s fond of doing a very good Riesling impersonation every so often. $18 B+ 2016 Rocca delle Macie Sergio Zingarelli Chianti Classico Gran Selezione (Chianti Classico): A mere babe for…
How I Almost Didn’t Write a Book
While I’ve much still left to report on from the last Portugal jaunt, as well as the result of a flurry of remote tasting events in the wake of Covid-19 SIP sipping, I did promise to get some thoughts onto virtual paper regarding the upcoming book(s), and so… well… here they are. First, we can…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For June 15, 2020
2017 Torre de Palma Tinto (Alentejo): Smoke ’em if you got ’em, and this most definitely has got ’em. $30 B+ Torre de Palma Arinto – Alvarinho (Alentejo): The flowers are white, the peaches are white, the glass is soon to be empty. $28 B+ 2018 Herdade das Servas Arinto (Alentejo): Fresh, deep, lingering, full…
Alentejo Postcard, Part 2 (Herdade de Coelheiros Recent Releases)
Among the 800 hectares of property upon which Alentejo’s Herdade de Coelheiros grows walnuts and cork trees sits about 50 hectares of vines. Though their history date back to the mid-1400s (as a hunting estate), those vines that source Coelheiros’ modern wines were replanted over 500 years later, in 1981. That’s because under Portugal’s dictatorship,…