Fast Facts, Hints for Tasting Your Way through Bordeaux
For future French escapes, add Bordeaux to your itinerary. The city has blossomed in many ways....
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Category: Bordeaux
Finding Your Benchmark Wines, Calibrating Your Palate
During the early days of running the San Diego Chapter of WINO (Wine Investigation for Novices and Oenophiles) in the 1970s, my mission was to encourage people to try different wines with food and be comfortable with what they...
Read MoreAging Better Wines in Screw Top Closures — Research Continues
In reviewing current literature for an update on changing trends in the use of different wine closures, a calendar reminder popped up from January 2010, to retrieve a small cardboard box from the cellar containing 100-milliliter...
Read MoreCabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux Finds $10 to $100
Our new year’s resolution is to continue looking for great values for money in wines from throughout the world, plus classic styles worth seeking out no matter what the vintage. In that mode, we went through our tasting...
Read MoreCabernet and Blends: Quaffing Values to Evolving Older Wines
In sampling several hundred wines at trade tastings and events, plus browsing local merchants for great values under $!5, we found some fine candidates the past two months and tweeted about them. The following scored well in...
Read MoreHunt for October Red: Value Wines to Classics
As the weather drives changes in dress, blankets on the bed and kitchen smells (bubbling beef bourgignon instead of chicken, shrimp and fish on the barbecue), the ratio of white to red wine purchases flips. White values were...
Read MoreFall White Sale: Wine Values from $12 to $27
The quest for values continues. Here are recent white wine finds in the $12 to $27 range. All scored well, often in blind tastings. These white wine notes were previously posted on Twitter (@tomgable, @sdwineguru) and a few...
Read MoreBBQ, Rib and Burger Wines — $9 to $15 — Plus a Few of the Higher Priced Spread
Whether on the backyard patio, fire pit at the beach or park, or even a portable BBQ at a tailgate party in the parking lot of the local baseball, soccer or football team, grilled meats demand robust reds as a savory...
Read MoreHeartier Reds for Meatier Dishes and Comfort Food
When the weather turned colder, the tasting targets turned toward different red varieties from around the world that could go with heartier stews, beef bourguignon, cassoulet, turkey and stuffing and even comfort food, including burgers and good o…
Read MoreAn Idea for Watching (smelling and tasting) Your Wines Age and Evolve
Even if the cellar is only an interior closet where the temperature holds steady during the year, do your palate and appreciation of the nuances of wine a favor and set aside at least three bottles of a favorite young red wine for future tasting. …
Read MorePalate-Pleasing Reds $9 to $15 from Three Continents
The following are highlights from wines tasted and Tweeted during the past two months on good finds in red wine values in Cabernet Sauvignon and Rhone blends from the U.S. and France, plus a big grapey Shiraz from Australia. Among the missing: val…
Read MoreMarch Madness in Red Wine Values
It hasn???t quite turned to barbecue weather in California (or anywhere else given the recent cold snap in the east), but you can start scouring the shelves at your friendly wine merchant, grocery or discount store for super values in wines perfect …
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