By billn on July 18, 2009
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By BurgLover on July 15, 2009
Thomas Rivers Brown and his wife and business partner Genevieve Marie Walsh have quietly developed one of California’s most honored Pinot Noir labels: Rivers-Marie. Although Brown crafts wine for at least twelve other wineries where the focus is Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel, Rivers-Marie produces small lots of Pinot Noir from three vineyard sources in the true Sonoma Coast, specifically the Occidental-Freestone area. Summa Vineyard is a 6-acre site owned by Scott and Joan Zeller, Occidental Ridge Vineyard is owned by Richard and Darla Radcliffe, and the Willow Creek Vineyard is owned by Raleigh and Patricia Wilson-Juckett. Total production for Rivers-Marie was 650 cases in 2007 and 1,200 cases in 2008. There are 4,000 people on the waiting list hopelessly biding their time for a spot [....]
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By billn on June 12, 2009
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By billn on April 23, 2009
I might not feel like opening bottles right now, but there’s nothing like a new project to get your mind off things. This week the majority of my UK-stored stocks arrived at my house – 406 kgs apparently – all on one pallet. Clearly a pallet is not something that goes up or down steps, so multiple cases were first piled by the front door before being moved into a differently shaped big pile in the cellar. The joy of discovery (the 1995 Brunello (Rennina) Pieve de la Santa Restituta that I bought after having the same wine in Montalcino in 2001) is mixed with the frustration of not easily finding stuff. I also see how my buying habits have changed in the last 5 [....]
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By billn on April 22, 2009
The house is very quiet today – the first time after more than 20 years with no dog. Belle had a short but very terminal illness – age only 6. We’re very sad…
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No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between December 2008 and the end of March 2009. Just over 60 bottles are listed here, but there are another 219 dotted through this Spring Report that it didn’t make sense to list for a second time. As is my usual custom, barrel tastings don’t get put either here or in the NoteFinder database, only in the relevant article. One corked bottle only! Regional Wines (4) Villages Wines (15) Premier Cru Wines (36) Grand Cru Wines (16) REGIONAL WINES 1999 Ghislaine Barthod, Bourgogne Rouge A little deeper, medium ruby-red versus the Leroy, with a nose that is denser but at the same time less pretty – darker [....]
By billn on February 3, 2009
I’ve had a few promising wines from Domaine de Suremain – like this one – so it’s nice to learn a little more, courtesy of a very tidy report in Bert Celce’s Wine Terroirs
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No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between August 2008 and the end of November 2008. A mere 52 bottles are listed here, but don’t forget that another 113 from this Autumn Report lie here – it didn’t make sense to list them all for a second time – but that’s still 165 wines from bottle in this issue. As is my usual custom, barrel tastings don’t get put either here or in the NoteFinder database, only in the relevent article. Regional Wines (4) Villages Wines (14) Premier Cru Wines (25) Grand Cru Wines (9) REGIONAL WINES 2006 Vincent Girardin, Bourgogne Pinot Noir Les Vieilles Vignes Medium, medium-plus cherry-red. The nose is fruity, a [....]
By billn on December 24, 2008
Hopefully the turkey is not one of your carefully planned bottles Back sometime soon!
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By billn on December 19, 2008
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By billn on October 10, 2008
I read the other day a comment from David Schildknecht where he said that (paraphrasing) those 2004′s that hadn’t already been drunk up, should be. I never saw him make such generalised statements before – maybe he’s been with the Wine Advocate team too long already! I still have a problem with 30%+ of reds because of their cedar-green ladybird (ladybug) taint, but the rest are delicious and I have a feeling will remain so for a number of years – like 1992 only much better. 2004 Bouchard Père, Volnay 1er Caillerets Cuvée Carnot Medium ruby-red. Depth and dimension on the nose – really grandstanding at the moment, and the oak is barely perceptible. Mouth-filling and concentrated, there’s good depth and plenty of tannin. There [....]
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