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Scout's Honor Red
As consumers look for less expensive offerings, Cali producers have been scrambling to try and show they can produce high quality wine at affordable prices. Venge Estate makes several top notch reds in the $50 plus range and are well known for their high quality wines. For those who think you need to spend a fortune to get a great red wine, this may change your mind.
Type, Body & Flavor
Snowvale Cabernet
It's no surprise that I love Snowvale Cabernet. It's classic California; ripe fruit, full-bodied, hints of spice, firm tannins, and an intense yet balanced finish. The surprise is that it's only $13. This is one to buy by the case. Just don't tell your friends how much you paid.
Type, Body & Flavor
Solanilla
Verdejo can have a layered texture all its own, and this dead ringer for high end California Chardonnay proves that Spain is the current global King of insane quality for extreme value.
Type, Body & Flavor
Sonoma Cutrer
It's Sonoma Cutrer Russian River Ranches - what more do we really need to say? Oak, Vanilla, butter - all that you expect from a great California Chard and then a little extra thrown in for good measure...
Type, Body & Flavor
Swimbad Rose
Rosé is the tipple of the tempting whether we are in Touraine, Tempe, Tuscaloosa, Tuscany or Saint-Tropez. Provence, the archetypal French vacationland, is the poster child for what modern rosé ought to be. Pale, quenching, lip-smacking.
Type, Body & Flavor
Tatiana Guillot Julienas
Most Americans have no idea how great the Beaujolais region has become. The last two decades have seen it grow, crafting some of the most intriguing AND affordable wines of France. It’s important to understand not all Beaujolais is the same, if you think Beaujolais Nouveau represents the character of Beaujolais, you’re dead wrong. Like the best Beaujolais, Julienas is firm, intense, tannic and nothing at all like the simple fruity wine from past.
Type, Body & Flavor
Tatiana Guillot Macon Villages
Macon Villages was once a bigger deal, or at least it was once a wine that absolutely every restaurant had to pour by the glass. In the climate change era, Macon seems to be morphing from light and slightly generic to richer and even slightly buttery. But only slightly. Remember that Chardonnay in France is almost always more about the minerals than the butter; Macon is clean and crisp. We’re not quite to California richness yet, but who knows?
Type, Body & Flavor
Terrasses de la Mer
So, is it okay if I predict that Sauvignon Blanc becomes the world’s most widely planted grape in the next decade? In southern France, with the collection of hills, valleys, and plains rolling down to the Mediterranean, it thrives. Sure, the plains are not where you grow Sauvignon Blanc, but there are plenty of other spots where you do. There these wines are vibrant, expressive and tangy – and it’s rare that those three descriptors go together.
Type, Body & Flavor
Terrebrune Anjou Blanc
There are few certainties in wine. Opportunities can be vast. Some grapes do okay in lots of places other than their homes but truly shine in only one or two. Aside from South Africa, only in the Loire Valley is Chenin Blanc completely special. But even here, somebody might feel the need to gild the lily; Terrebrune adds 20% Chardonnay to its Chenin but the citric, honeyed intensity remains.
Type, Body & Flavor
The Palace Thief Cabernet Sauvignon
The vast Columbia Valley encompasses 12 AVA’s; it even leaks over from Washington State into Oregon. So, it’s difficult to say exactly what Cabernet Sauvignon is going to be like when it’s labeled as Columbia Valley. For now, we can focus upon the fact that there is more Cabernet grown in the Columbia Valley than any other grape, by a significant measure. There’s a reason for that: virtually all the AVA’s within it make great Cabernet.
Type, Body & Flavor
Scout's Honor Red
As consumers look for less expensive offerings, Cali producers have been scrambling to try and show they can produce high quality wine at affordable prices. Venge Estate makes several top notch reds in the $50 plus range and are well known for their high quality wines. For those who think you need to spend a fortune to get a great red wine, this may change your mind.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Snowvale Cabernet
It's no surprise that I love Snowvale Cabernet. It's classic California; ripe fruit, full-bodied, hints of spice, firm tannins, and an intense yet balanced finish. The surprise is that it's only $13. This is one to buy by the case. Just don't tell your friends how much you paid.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Solanilla
Verdejo can have a layered texture all its own, and this dead ringer for high end California Chardonnay proves that Spain is the current global King of insane quality for extreme value.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Sonoma Cutrer
It's Sonoma Cutrer Russian River Ranches - what more do we really need to say? Oak, Vanilla, butter - all that you expect from a great California Chard and then a little extra thrown in for good measure...
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Swimbad Rose
Rosé is the tipple of the tempting whether we are in Touraine, Tempe, Tuscaloosa, Tuscany or Saint-Tropez. Provence, the archetypal French vacationland, is the poster child for what modern rosé ought to be. Pale, quenching, lip-smacking.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Tatiana Guillot Julienas
Most Americans have no idea how great the Beaujolais region has become. The last two decades have seen it grow, crafting some of the most intriguing AND affordable wines of France. It’s important to understand not all Beaujolais is the same, if you think Beaujolais Nouveau represents the character of Beaujolais, you’re dead wrong. Like the best Beaujolais, Julienas is firm, intense, tannic and nothing at all like the simple fruity wine from past.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Tatiana Guillot Macon Villages
Macon Villages was once a bigger deal, or at least it was once a wine that absolutely every restaurant had to pour by the glass. In the climate change era, Macon seems to be morphing from light and slightly generic to richer and even slightly buttery. But only slightly. Remember that Chardonnay in France is almost always more about the minerals than the butter; Macon is clean and crisp. We’re not quite to California richness yet, but who knows?
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Terrasses de la Mer
So, is it okay if I predict that Sauvignon Blanc becomes the world’s most widely planted grape in the next decade? In southern France, with the collection of hills, valleys, and plains rolling down to the Mediterranean, it thrives. Sure, the plains are not where you grow Sauvignon Blanc, but there are plenty of other spots where you do. There these wines are vibrant, expressive and tangy – and it’s rare that those three descriptors go together.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
Terrebrune Anjou Blanc
There are few certainties in wine. Opportunities can be vast. Some grapes do okay in lots of places other than their homes but truly shine in only one or two. Aside from South Africa, only in the Loire Valley is Chenin Blanc completely special. But even here, somebody might feel the need to gild the lily; Terrebrune adds 20% Chardonnay to its Chenin but the citric, honeyed intensity remains.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions
The Palace Thief Cabernet Sauvignon
The vast Columbia Valley encompasses 12 AVA’s; it even leaks over from Washington State into Oregon. So, it’s difficult to say exactly what Cabernet Sauvignon is going to be like when it’s labeled as Columbia Valley. For now, we can focus upon the fact that there is more Cabernet grown in the Columbia Valley than any other grape, by a significant measure. There’s a reason for that: virtually all the AVA’s within it make great Cabernet.
Type, Body & Flavor
Pairings & Occasions