Les Heritiers du Comte Lafon Macon Milly Lamartine 2009
Macon, France. Chardonnay. 13%. Cork. Approx $A47.Spotted today with two of its slightly more expensive siblings. Not surprisingly this is bright and primary, with flint and stone and a prickle of sulphur. Grilled peach and ripe pineapple set the tone ...
Antinori – Castello della Sala – Cervaro della Sala 2009
Antinori Cervaro della Sala 2009 Name: Antinori Cervaro della SalaGrapes: 85% Chardonnay, 15% Grechetto*Alchohol: 13%Classification: IGT Umbria While all the world's wine bloggers are enjoying a jolly good knees up in Perugia at the #iwinetc, I thought...
Cooper Point Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay 2009
I don't drink much American wine outside the USA. It seems a little weird to import it to Europe. The really good Californian wines are absurdly expensive here and the ordinary wines are still ordinary, but with a pile of airmiles. This bottle arrive...
Wine Tasting Video: Five Champagnes – three NVs + two 2004s
Champagne Canard-Duchêne Charles VII Grande Cuvée Le Victorieux NV (£35 Majestic) An odd mix of honeyed biscuity maturity with rather tart green apple immaturity, not hugely classy, but honest and quite tasty B Champagne Moët & Chandon Brut Imp...
Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs
le Mesnil-sur-Ogers, France. Chardonnay. 12%. Cork. Approx $A85Quite delicious and certainly more pleasing than just about any other equivalently priced Champagne I can recall. Made by a co-op of growers from grapes growing in esteemed soil, this is la...
Damn, This Was Good! (10 & 11)
Here are notes on two terrific French white wines we took to dinner at Restaurant Iris in Memphis. Great meal, too, and thanks to our generous friend Allison Jacob, editor and publisher of CorkIt! magazine, for bringing the splendid Eagles Trace Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005, Napa Valley. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chateau La Louvière, fortuitously located in the...
Penfolds Bin 09A Chardonnay 2009
Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Chardonnay. 12%. Screwcap. Approx $A75.After a series of flabby and overweight chardonnay, something tight, pert and rapier like. . . Match stick (and curry leaf), flint, nutmeg, ground ginger and mustard fruit. Lean an...
Toolangi Reserve Chardonnay 2007
Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia. Chardonnay. 14.2%. Screwcap. Approx $A65.I spent the afternoon sniffing at curry leaves, my mother in law has a pair of small trees growing unsupervised in her front yard and I'm fond of the scent. It's something I de...
Recipe: Irish Lamb Stew
This morning I woke to sunny skies and balmy temperatures for January in the mountains of NC. As the day has progressed, the temperatures have dropped and clouds have invaded those picturesque skies with the drum beat of winter riding on the wind. My Irish roots have pointed my mind in the direction of comfort...
Friday Wine Sips
You know me. I like to write extensive reviews of individual wines or groups of wines that include notes on history, geography, climate and terroir, the techniques and methods of winemaking and evaluations of the wines that weigh them in terms of detail and dimension, philosophy and spirit. I don’t, unfortunately, have either time or...
Twelfth Night and the 12th Day of Christmas
Ah, here we are, the final day of this series of “Twelve Days of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine.” I offer three examples, one charming Crémant de Bourgogne and two splendid Champagnes, thus bringing to conclusion this foray into different styles of French sparkling wines from various regions. Twelfth Night is the Eve of...
