J Newman Wine Revue

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