Watch this Episode! Wines tasted in this episode: 2001 Albino Rocca Barbaresco Vigneto Brich Ronchi 1998 Ugo Lequio Barbaresco Gallina 1998 Cantina Vignaioli Elvio Pertinace Barbaresco Castellizzano 2000 Carretta Barbaresco Cascina Bordino Watch today as Gary responds to his ... Italian wines it’s still one of Gary’s favorites. More viewer questions answered and a new QOD...

Filed under: Wine , On the Blogs The more you spend on a bottle of wine, the higher your expectations are for it. After all, if you are going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a bottle, the wine should really give you an experience that is worth the cost. If it doesn't, you may as well stick with the $10 and under bottles. The biggest risk with an old bottle of wine is not just...

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 .

Combined notes from two tastings - always surprises - a few quite big - particularly Great Western - Schloss Elfz - Spatleze - 1971 - an old Riesling - materized - the cork fell into the bottle on opening - no one was smiling on the first pour - getting significantly better as it blew off ... wines - Alsace is inevitably the last guess - as it was this night - wonderful to drink...

... of the commercial license for $50,000 - thereby making the project feasible - They took an old barn - bought...

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...

The bi-weekly - double blind tasting - is always a grab bag - in fact - to protect their identities - most bottles are brought in brown bags - or - plastic supermarket bags - or - newspaper secured by rubber-bands - or - my favorite - aluminum foil - Lots of good - solid wines - an occasional corked bottle beyond anyones control - or something too old - or too young - and - every so often...

... 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...