Inexpensive Wine
Just a couple notes on two inexpensive quickies.Had a pretty good bottle of the 2005 Chateau la Grolet "Le Plateau" (Cotes de Bourg). This is an organic/biodynamic estate in Bordeaux. They also use native yeasts and are pretty small production by Borde...
Domaine Leflaive Macon-Verze 2007
Macon, Burgundy, France. Chardonnay. 13%. Cork. Approx $A60 (from a wine list)I started reading the Slaughterhouse Five today. The most notable early feature is the ease and cadence. The flow of words seems so perfect and unforced. My favourite lines s...
Villebois Loire Sauvignon Blanc 2007
The Loire valley has some odd things going on. New Zealanders have spent some time over there, making Sauvignon Blancs that have all the fruity exuberance you might expect from Marlborough with the flinty steel of the riverbanks. Villebois comes from t...
Mineral-driven white from gravely Graves
Clos du Hez Graves (2007)Clos du Hez50% Sauvignon Blanc | 50% SémillonGraves AC, Bordeaux, FranceWhile the red wines of Bordeaux, located in south western France, are famed as some of the best wines in the world, the region also produces excellent qua...
Creamy Columbia Chardonnay
Chateau Ste. Michelle Chardonnay (2007)Chateau Ste. MichelleChardonnayColumbia Valley (Wash.)I might be slightly biased towards this wine, because I am absolutely head over heels in love with this winery. I have never picked up a bottle of CSM that I d...
Wine review: Macari Vineyards 2007 Estate Chardonnay
I’m no country boy. But more often than not, I find myself escaping to the country - the wild country - that is Nature’s backyard. For it is true that I love my local mountains. Just seeing them ringing the valley where I live, much less walking their trails, is good for my soul.
Escaping to...
Lula Syrah 2007
We had a bottle of Lula Syrah 2007 which had arrived as part of a mixed case. It had quite a stylish, minimalist label. I noticed this, which is often a bad sign, any label that stands out can easily be over compensatinbg for the contents of the bottle...
Chapel Down Bacchus Reserve 2007
Last weekend was the Milan-San Remo cycle race. It's a classic. It wasn't on TV until Monday so we agreed to a 'Likely Lads' style pact not to find out the result and to avoid cycling websites until Monday afternoon. It was unlikely that we'd learn the...
deutsch wein ist gut mit thai essen ja
Clean Slate Riesling (2007)Clean Slate WinesRieslingMosel, GERMANYOn recommendation from Crighton, one of the friendly specialists at my local Whole Foods, I snagged a bottle of Clean Slate to pair up with some Pad Thai. Eagerly he chilled a bottle and...
Casa Del Rio Verde Sauvignon Blanc 2007
We had a bottle of Casa Del Rio Verde Sauvignon Blanc 2007 both in and with a seafood risotto. The risotto was lovely, with al dente rice, just the right blend of fish to rice and a creaminess that was neither sloppy nor stodgy. Heavenly.The wine was q...
Hilltop Sauvignon Blanc 2007
Last summer I cycled along the Danube from Germany through Austria and Slovakia to Budapest in Hungary. It was great fun and largely flat apart from a short section in Hungary which took us high up above the Danube and into vineyards. Most of the route...
