A quaffable Grand vin de Bordeaux. This wine, which is produced in Saint-Yzans-de-Médoc, Gironde and has excellent starting notes of wild berries, followed by mild woody tannins and leather high notes. A good value for wine at around 5.50€ a bottle. For a drinkable cheap Bordeaux, this is very good indeed. Most Bordeaux wines in this price range are a bit rough.
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Rollin helped start Argyle Winery back in 1987, when Oregon was getting serious about wine. Since then, his wines have been on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list seven times. Meet Rollin, one of the most successful -and interesting- winemakers in Oregon.
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A well finished wine from Les Chais Malesan, Blanquefort. The grapes are sourced from all over the Bordeaux appellation area and blended into a very good, even wine. It is ages in oak for minimum of 6 moths lending good cedar and cinnamon mid notes. Good robust plum and soft red fruits abound. At around 6€ a bottle, this represents a great value Bordeaux wine. The wine is a mix of 60% Merlot 30% Cabernet Sauvignon 10% Cabernet Franc, which rather makes it a wine for all seasons
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Wine Books by Richard on June 26th, 2008
Product Description
It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.
In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did his reticence conceal an even darker secret?
It would take more than two decades for those questions to be answered and involve a gallery of intriguing players—among them Michael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on the record-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegant archrival, whose palate is covered by a hefty insurance policy; and Bill Koch, the extravagant Florida tycoon bent on exposing the truth about Rodenstock.
Pursuing the story from Monticello to London to Zurich to Munich and beyond, Benjamin Wallace also offers a mesmerizing history of wine, complete with vivid accounts of subterranean European laboratories where old vintages are dated and of Jefferson’s colorful, wine-soaked days in France, where he literally drank up the culture.
Suspenseful, witty, and thrillingly strange, The Billionaire’s Vinegar is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. It is also the debut of an exceptionally powerful new voice in narrative non-fiction.
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Join Giacomo Neri in his vineyard and in his winery as he harvests grapes for his Tenuta Nuova Brunello di Montalcino. The 2001 bottling from this vineyard was named Wine Spectator Wine of the Year in 2006.
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I am an avid wine drinker, I love to explore new wines and immerse myself in the pleasure of wine.
The one thing I have never understood is collecting wine. It is one thing to lay down a cellar for drinking at a later date, but to purchase wine and then lock it away in a vault seems insane to me.
The whole point of wine is in the drinking.
I know people purchase art purely as an investment and keep it in storage never displaying it, but at least now and again they can take it out and admire it.
Is it me or, does purchasing a product that is meant to be consumed but storing it instead, range on the scary?
Maybe I will start a collection of baked beans, then I can show off to my friends (who will soon cease to be) my wonderful ‘89 Walmart own brand, my ‘99 Heinz with BBQ sauce, and not forgetting the Safeway 2002 Beans with Sausages.
Now lets open a nice 1947 Pétrus, drink a few glasses and use the rest to make my famous onion gravy (bet that has never been written before!!!!).
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Let Erwan Faiveley introduce you to Burgundy. He assumed control of his family winery at the tender age of 25 — and Domaine Faiveley, founded in 1825, is one of the best-known estates in Burgundy.
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A medium bodied wine from DOMAINE DE LA GUICHARDE, MONDRAGON. Good woody and earthy notes, followed by rich ripe red fruit in the middle. There is a slight dark chocolate finish to round this wine off. Very good value for money at just over 4€
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Caymus Special Selection has been named Wine Spectator’s “wine of the year” in two vintages (a record), but Chuck Wagner is not one to rest on his laurels. He’s always learning from the past and looking toward the future.
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A yummy Beaujolais wine, soft and light with good cheery fruit notes. A perfect summer red wine. Le Pére la Grolle falls into the the fun and light wine category and at under 4€ is very good value for money. This is a wine to be enjoyed when the sun is shinning and the sprites are wine. Break out the BBQ and enjoy a few glasses.
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Chateau Mouton-Rothschild is one of the top wineries in Bordeaux. What factors set Mouton’s vineyards apart from its neighbors? To find out, join Philippe Dhalluin, Mouton’s technical director, in the vineyard.
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A decent good value table wine from the makers Vignobles Lorgeril, Aragon en Cabardes. It is medium bodied with a good depth of pleasant red fruits and sits well on on the palate. Excellent value for money. T makes a very good summer wine.
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Angelo Gaja is best-known for his wines from Piedmont and, more recently, Montalcino. But he’s also been making outstanding wines in Bolgheri since 2000. James Suckling sits down with Gaja to talk Tuscany and to find out why Angelo loves the region.
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A rather indifferent wine from SCEA les Vignobles Bernones. This Chateau Haut-Bernones is O.K. but does not really hit any high notes. It tastes a bit of green wood, with just a touch of liquorice. Nose of vegetation and not in a nice fresh cut grass way. One to give a miss, given that you can find far better wines fo the same price.
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