Delicious! I am so ready for summer wines. It’s only spring, I admit, but that’s the summer wines warm-up season! I can’t wait to review my first rose of the warmer seasons. Meanwhile, a new and interesting little beast from a winery I have not tried before. I like! There’s a teensy sharpness on the [...]
Tagged semillon sauvignon blancThe funny thing about trying to maintain a blog about the wine I drink is that I am not usually at home when I am enjoying that first glass for the evening. I toyed briefly with getting a little notebook and having that as my wine review book, but honestly, the mental image alone of [...]
Tagged chardonnayMmm, another Tamar Ridge wine. It is purely coincidental that I’ve looked at two Tamar Ridge Kayena Vineyard offerings: it is not, I suspect, coincidental that they are both delicious. This riesling is full-bodied, sharp and exuberant (to the extent that a liquid in a nice glass can be exuberant), with really bold passionfruit and [...]
Tagged RieslingBay of Fires wines, apart from having both an awesome name and an exceptional location, do an excellent line of white wines. When we rocked up to do a tasting, in late June, it was very quiet and very, very beautiful. A lot of the Tamar Valley wineries close up the cellar door during June, [...]
Tagged pinot grisDon’t just sit there, celebrate something! While sorting through old delicious. magazines the other day (culling the herd, etc.) I came across an advertisement for, I think, Jacob’s Creek sparkling something-or-other. The above was its tagline, and it kinda got me thinking, as most things do. I love champagne — and I use the term [...]
Tagged etc.Name: B3 2006 Riesling. Status: Chilly and refreshing. To kill. I’m sorry, I tried to make this all sci-fi and awesome. I like the name “B3 2006 Riesling” because it sounds like a sort of robot. It’s awesome enough without any robots, though. It is slim, beautiful and elegant in the bottle, with a parchment [...]
Tagged RieslingChardonnay is known in this country for a boom, a bust, an ironic following and the expression ‘ABC drinkers’, meaning ‘Anything But Chardonnay’ drinkers. I think (and I am calling upon scant research here) that the explosion in popularity chardonnay had internationally was at roughly the same time as an overall sudden growth spurt in [...]
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