Well… in what is amounting to, put charitably, quite a year now contains one of the most well-THAT-was-quite-a-week moments arguably in U.S (world?) history. In case you haven’t heard (presumably because you’ve been fortunate enough to have been stranded on a beautiful, remote island somewhere with an almost unlimited amount of Madeira stashed in caves…
Tag: wine review
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 13 (The Evolution of Modern Carménère with Terra Noble)
The evolutionary winemaking journey of what we might call modern Carménère red wines in Chile looks something like this: Treating it like Merlot because they actually thought it was Merlot -> Living with the fact that its tannins were just going to be green and harsh, tough nuggies -> Over-ripening the bejeezus out of the…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 12 (CARO Recent Releases)
Admittedly, I kind of wanted to hate CARO. Not because of the wine, which as you’ll read in a minute or two is well worth talking about, but because it’s just the kind of big-wine-companies-joint venture (between Argentina’s Catena and France’s Lafite Rothschild) that is almost too clever for its own good. Almost. The idea…
To the Victors, the Spoils (Dude’s Take on Aged Champers & Mouton!)
It’s undeniable that 2020 has been, by and large, a dumpster fire, sh*t-show of a year. BUT… it hasn’t all been fetid, noxious piles of flaming refuse. At 1WD HQ, there have been some aspects of 2020 fortuitous enough to justify breaking out the good stuff. And, I do mean the good stuff. For starters,…