I’ve had a few of the 2006 Signorello wines this week, and they are showing nicely: plenty of interesting aromas, good body and tannins. But they are young, the body not yet roundly evolved, the tannins still adolescent. I’d love to try these in a year. However, the wines are unfiltered. Does that mean they [...]
The Plumpjack people’s new winery is called CADE. I tried their 2007 Sauvingon Blanc recently. Not unexpectedly it’s screwcap, which is great. The wine itself if somehow light but substantial: fine notes of sweet grasses in the nose, with more weight than you’d expect in the body. Of course, I drank it chilled. We left [...]
…but we had TWO wines made with Rkatsiteli last night at Jonathon Alsop’s Boston Wine School. I brought the Dr. Konstantin Frank — and of course Jonathon had to one-up me with the Westport Rivers. Both 2006, and somewhat similar in their strong aromas and mineral finishes. The Frank had a powerful almost dairy-fermented aroma, [...]
