Meridian is currently offering outstanding value on all their classic everyday wines, whose white labels feature Patrick McFarlin paintings.  Their 2005 Central Coast Pinot Noir may be the best on the market right now in the under-$10 range. Tasting Notes : Color: Medium purplish ruby, translucent.  Aromas: Cherry, strawberry, plum, spice and hints of vanilla.  Light-bodied, fleshy...

Dancing Bull * is owned by E&J Gallo Winery, the largest U.S. wine company (2005 figures).  Mass produced, yes, but everything is right about this racy California Sauvignon Blanc.  The wine is more distinctive than you expect, the package sings with its new screw cap, and the price is right. ...

After spending a couple of weeks with several premium Box Chardonnays in the refrigerator, I'm looking for more of them to try.  In addition to the benefits of lower cost per glass, freshness, convenience, and ease, there is another benefit: the easy to recycle box. Instead of hauling four glass ...

We have a lot more choices these days when it comes to good quality everyday wine packaged in a bag-in-box format.  This is a response to quickly changing attitudes about wine packaging in the USA.  The box used to mean "cheap"  and "unsophisticated" wine was inside, but this is changing ...

Just recently I posted about wineries going organic, and it is nice to see that wine folks out there in the industry actually read my little ol' blog here because I soon heard from the nice folks at Charles Krug... Continue .

Have written many times about Coturri Wines - no matter how much I like them - I would be remiss by not admitting - that they're not for everyone - Rich - syrupy - all natural - they are what I call real wines - So I opened a bottle of Coturri - Zinfandel - 2002 - with a summer night steak BBQ - offering my wife a taste - expecting her to immediately switch to a cool white Sauvignon Blanc...

... medal, denoting an ''extraordinary wine.'' The winning entry eclipsed 251 wines in the daylong ... German and French dessert wines I have savored. Alas, most mortals will never see it. Only 75 cases of 24 ... to the premium white dry wine market. The three runners-up, platinum medal winners, were dessert wines. The '86 ... a number of categories of white and red wines said they found too many entries disappointing. An overriding...

wines were stored As he carefully explained - they go back to the beginnings of wine-making ... - a bit of everything - had to define - one of Jay's two - what should I get for under $10 - wines - good...

Annual tasting at one of the 5th Avenue clubs - twenty some assorted wines - set as a walk-around - chance to rate  - the great - the good - the bad - the ugly - Benziger - Sauvignon Blanc - North Coast - 2004 - classic - thumbs up - Lincourt - Chardonnay - Santa Barbara - 2004 - lots of oak ... - but the three wines that I "really" did not like - Chasseloir - Esmonin - Perdrix - were all at the same table...

Amelie Joyful, Elegant, Gentle In the Contado, the medieval vineyards and lands ruled by the Counts, it was often the tradition to celebrate a new birth by planting a plot of vines or dedicating to the new born a special wine. This would bid well and endow him/her with symbolic ...