Another wine produced by James Kelly from Harewood Estate. The fruit here is from Mt Barker, in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It has a distinct Rhoney lean this one….it has an open, earthy nose of rich red currant and plummy fruits, roast beef, five spice, pepper, licorice, cold tea and mocha oak...

Made by Harewood Estates, James Kelly from fruit sourced from the Great Southern region in Western Australia. Vibrant, high-toned fruit on the nose, passionfruit, gooseberry, cut grass and guava and a whiff of lantana and green bean. In the mouth the wine is lean and steely with quite austere gooseberry, freshly cut grass, celery, citrus...

Christian Eedes, Deputy Editor des südafrikanischen WINE magazine, widmet sich in seinem jüngsten Newsletter den Zukunftsaussichten für Investment-Weine aus Südafrika. “Red Bordeaux accounts for some 80% of the wine investment market worldwide. With Ausone 2005 going for $1 375 a bottle, it suddenly becomes more a financial instrument than anything ...

... tasters of great nebbiolo … virtually all young aglianico is forbiddingly tannic, though. Even...

Buying a bottle of Malbec can be a somewhat mysterious experience, as the grape — much like Chardonnay — can be so many different things. Think of Malbec as the Peter Sellers of grapes: so many disguises and personalities, and you’re never quite sure which one you will get. Of ...

Tasca d’Almerita makes two very reliable everyday “table” wines from its Regaleali property, one white, one red. This is the white — Bianco — and the 2004 vintage is still fresh and enjoyable. In an attempt to clear up some confusion: Tasca d’Almerita is the name of the winemaking family ...

I received the 2005 Hook & Ladder “The Tillerman” white table wine as a part of a wine blog sampling program. According to the email from the p.r. representation for Hook & Ladder, the DeLoach’s wanted to explore the wine blogging community. It would have been far more intuitive to ...

Napa Cabs have a somewhat deserved reputation for being expensive. It’s hard to find a smaller lot producer that isn’t more interested in crafting $60 bottles then $20 bottles. So, it was almost on a fluke that I picked up a bottle of the 2004 Twenty Rows Cabernet Sauvignon while ...

My wife and I are prone to crushes and some consumer/pop culture flights of fancy. My wife’s girly crush’s are more around fetishizing movies and books into complete and absolute fandom (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Walk the Line/Johnny Cash come to mind) and mine are more around ...

I got a call the other night from a friend of mine who went with me on my Central Coast wine 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 ...