The tasting room had wine competition ribbons all over the place, but all of the energy and vigor ... jaunt this past summer. He had pulled the cork on a Cabernet from a small family winery called Dark Star Cellars that we had happened into and it was much better than his minds eye (or taste buds ... to the winemaker had a certain pleasantness that rubbed off and we were also joined in the tasting room...

... tasters of great nebbiolo … virtually all young aglianico is forbiddingly tannic, though. Even ... . They are certainly priced that way—all of them are $14 a bottle, but the thing is, these wines are exceptional ... .   This is the first experience I have had with aglianico and to describe it as tannic ... paired with food. On the UC Davis scale I gave it an 18. I really like this wine, and all...

... to quality equation at all price points then a red. And …  #2) This is a delicious wine ... ways of adult sociability—it’s a wine you want to keep for yourself and, at the same time, a wine you...

... called Bacchus Wines. Fortunate for me, I had to fly back to the Midwest , because I also...

... engaging winery-related blogs on the Internet. No serious, dry stuff, either. It’s all about turning ... priced a touch high relative to quality. At the tasting room they had a fee and a tasting limit ... sheet that gave all of the technical winemaking minutia that you’d want. These guys kind ... their wine seriously, but they are so obviously having fun and creating fun that they take away all...

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Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Bob Wood Post Time: 04-29-2007 at 04:30 PM...

Wine is such a mysterious beverage. Wine geeks will sniff it, quaff it, swizzle it, and then come up with all these wild descriptors: cassis, meadow, leather, mushroom. Where do all these elusive aromas and flavors come from? Partly from the grape, partly from aging in oak, (partly from our imaginations), and partly from tannin. Tannins are a group of chemicals that occur in the bark of many...

"Do your wines contain sulfites? My friend is very allergic and she'll go into shock if she drinks wine containing sulfites." That’s enough to scare me silly. All I need is to have a gasping, cyanotic customer on the floor. "Well, uh," I stammer, "then perhaps she'd better not have any, just in case." And I pull the glass back. He hangs on to the glass. "So your wines do have sulfites...