We recently took a trip up to a great friend’s place to celebrate my lovely wife’s birthday. We planned a 3 night celebration with great meals and fantastic wines! Since we went through a lot of bottles, some old and some young so I figured I’d better write about them! Hopefully it can give you … More Birthday Weekend Wines
Time flies by and sadly my personal time to sit, reflect and write about wines is quite limited these days. That said, I’ve been enjoying some Sancerre recently during these hot and dry days in August and thought I’d just put a quick note out there about some of my favorites from this area. Brief … More Sancerre for the heat!
I recently did a small tasting with some friends of some Corton red wines so I thought that I would write a bit about it to help cement some of the things I learned. Corton is a grand cru appellation in Burgundy that is essentially in the middle of the Cote d’Or, between Nuits St … More The Hill of Corton
It’s been a wild fall and winter so far. COVID continues to run rampant and mess up the best laid plans…This makes travel and wine tasting more difficult and in some cases nearly impossible. So instead, we decided to have some close friends over to celebrate the new year and open some memorable bottles. Here … More New Year’s and DRC
I was able to take a trip to Oregon in May to do a little bit of wine tasting as well as a little bit of bike riding with a group of friends. I had 2 take aways from the trip; the wines of the Willamette Valley have never been at a higher quality, though … More Willamette Valley Tasting Trip
Sangiovese is a lovely grape that produces great wines throughout Tuscany. Montalcino with its Brunello is probably the highest quality region for sangiovese, but my favorite happens to come from Chianti which is arguably the spiritual home of sangiovese. I have always liked sangiovese; when I was in my early stages as a wine drinker, … More My favorite sangiovese
I have had 2 celebrations recently with some great wines consumed. One was my wife’s birthday celebration (which was more than one day for the record) and then we had some great friends come in for the weekend and in honor of them we opened several great bottles. Here is a review of some of … More Tasting weekends
Circa 2007 Valentine’s Day in Charlottesville, VA; I was a student and while I had lots of interest in fine wine, I had little experience due to the cost. Luckily for this particular dinner out, I had a date that was not a student and she offered to pay! In an attempt to impress at … More Domaine Michel Lafarge – Benchmark Volnay
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve had the time or energy to get on here and post anything, but don’t let that make you think I’ve not been enjoying wine! I most certainly have been. So I figured I’d post a few highlights of recent times and then hopefully get on with a more educational … More Some killer wines recently
Ruchottes-Chambertin is one of the grand crus of Gevrey-Chambertin. I only recently had my first taste of this prestigious vineyard and while it does not carry the fame of Le Chambertin or Clos de Beze, it is probably close to the top of the rest of the Gevrey grand crus in my opinion. This is … More Ruchottes-Chambertin
J Newman Wine Revue 