It’s not often that you hear a winemaker say things like this about one of their wines: “We don’t care if people like it or not; if not, I’ll drink it!” And yet, that’s exactly what Casa Wines’ Helder Cunha said to me earlier this year in New York City, when I worked my way…
Tag: portuguese wine
1WineDude.com TV Episode 56: Portugal’s Best Wines? (With Master Wine Geek Doug Frost)
Welcome to a rather long-overdue episode of 1WD TV, in which I get geeky with wine maven Doug Frost and give him crap about the wines he *didn’t* pick for his list of Portugal’s 50 Greatest Wines. We express communal love for Madeira, and then Doug sort of disses Napa, but generally shows why he’s…
Weekly Wine Quiz: Post Turkey Day Hangover Edition
Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz, fresh off a Thanksgiving turkey-gorging binge. Roll yourself out of your easy chair and take a stab at this week’s wine mind-bender, so you can feel as though you accomplished something after your run-in with stuffing and pumpkin pie. Standard disclaimer: I supply the quiz question, but *not* quiz…
A Tawny Bargain And A Tawdry Pecan Pie
Occasionally, I actually agree with Robert Parker’s reviews. Yes, really. Such as in this case, when it comes to a 10 Year Tawny Port to which RMP Jr. dolled out 94 points, in sharp contrast to many other long-established critical voices who deigned to bestow it a high-80s score, probably because it retails for $33…