Wine
The KINGDOM of Navarra: a blend of super-chef, medieval castles, good to great wines and it’s green, too: 38 windfarms generate 65% of their energy. An ancient tradition of wines and spirits, and very modern hearty but beautifully balanced red wines, often temperanillo and temp blends. And a few lyrical sauvignon blancs, too. We had [...]
Continue reading about Lobster that melts in your mouth — with wine — from Navarra, Spain
http://how2heroes.com/videos/beverages/champagne-history
http://how2heroes.com/videos/beverages/champagne-buying-guide
Continue reading about My new great videos: #2 buying Champagne and sparkling wine
After tasting the DuBoeuf Beaujolais Nouveau earlier and enjoying the light fruitiness of the wine, I was surprised to return to the covered glass a few hours later and find the flavors had all but disappeared. But I did not despair. I got out a wine gadget: the Vinturi Wine Aerator — the little one [...]
Continue reading about DuBoeuf Beaujolais Nouveau: fleeting glory but fun with a wine gadget
Suddenly one October afternoon I fell in love with Albariño, the bright and lovely Spanish white wine. I had visited the home of Albariño before; it’s a charming, ancient land of rolling hills touched by Atlantic breezes in the northwest corner of Spain. Yet, here I was in New York city, at the annual Great [...]
You might know all about wine cork, but it made a real difference to me to stand in a cork forest in Portugal recently. And to see the whole process of wine corks being made. (Courtesy of Amorim, which is the largest cork producer in the largest cork-producing company in the world.) Cork oaks are [...]
Continue reading about Cork in Portugal: what I learned this fall
Apparently, I’m not the only one to be charmed by Kate MacMurray, lately. She took us all up to see the views at the top of the MacMurray Ranch in Sonoma last weekend, to the place where her father (actor Fred) used to drive up in the evening to “count noses” of the cattle on [...]
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, [...]
