One of the joys of attending the Wine Bloggers Conference, held this year in Lodi, California, is to attend keynotes and workshops to share and increase wine knowledge about the world of wine, whether it may be the virtual one or the real one. One...
Score: 90/100 Score 90/100 Tasting Notes: The wine comes in a shiny lemon-yellow color, just a tiny touch Golden brownish hue. Aromas on the nose are concentrated. Notes resulting from lees aging and contact with oak are the dominant ones: toasted hazelnut, brioche, butter....
Score: 94/100 Score 94/100 The Comtes de Champagne Cuvée is without a doubt one of the most iconic Champagne sparkling wines from France you can buy, and it’s not the most expensive one at that! It is for sure the icon of Champagne Taittinger...
Score: 90/100 Score 90/100 While attending the Wine Bloggers Conference earlier this month (August 2016), sponsored by the Lodi Wine Grape Commission, I had the pleasure of being given a bottle of wine from Estate Crush that was apparently crafted by wine bloggers! Tasting Notes: The...
Score: 89/100 Score 89/100 While attending the Wine Bloggers Conference earlier this month (August 2016), I had the pleasure of being given a bottle of wine from a famous California winery: Rodney Strong. Rodney Strong was a major sponsor of the 2016 Wine...
Score: 89/100 pts Score 89/100 While attending the Wine Bloggers Conference, I had the pleasure of being given a bottle of wine for review by Emily Martin aka The Jetsetting Fashionista. This was a bottle of 2013 Cultivar Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is a...
A One-Day Road Trip to Napa A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of touring the most famous wine region of California, the Napa Valley for a day. I obviously had to stop by and try (for the first time as far as...
Score: 90/100 Score 90/100 Needless to say that Grüner Veltliner is not a very common grape variety for a New Zealand wine. This full-bodied Austrian grape is actually not very common around the world at all outside of its home country. But Kiwis have never...
Score: 90/100 Score 90/100 Vintage 2015 was an year of exceptional quality for New Zealand wine, in general, and the Marlborough ones in particular. As usual (though we’re not bored, quite the opposite) Saint Clair Family Estate has given us a series of single vineyard...
Score: 94/100 Score 94/100 The Tuscan lady that produces this Brunello, Donatella Cinelli Colombini, is particularly proud of this wine in its 2010 vintage version. She goes as far as saying: “This is the best Brunello I have ever produced”. One has to know that in...
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