Grapelive: Special Tasting Report, Oregon Stars
Grapelive Special Report: Some New Oregon Beauties “While Oregon remains a great source of great and long-lived Pinot Noir, it’s no longer a one trick pony! There is an amazing…
Grapelive Special Report: Some New Oregon Beauties “While Oregon remains a great source of great and long-lived Pinot Noir, it’s no longer a one trick pony! There is an amazing…
2012 Caprili, Brunello di Montalcino DOCG, Tuscany, Italy. The 2012 Caprili Brunello is a full bodied and densely pack wine with complex layers and ripe tannins, it’s just hitting it’s…
2016 Weingut Mueller-Catoir, Scheurebe Trocken, Haardter Mandelring, VDP Erste Lage, Pfalz Germany. Mueller-Catoir, run by the ninth generation vintner Philipp David Catoir is one of Germany’s finest estates in the…
2017 Chateau Peyrassol, Rosé, Cuvee La Commanderie de Peyrassol, Cotes de Provence, France. Commanderie de Peyrassol, founded by the Knights Templar who were dedicated to protecting the Crusaders on way…
2016 Yves Cuilleron, Condrieu “La Petite Cote” Northern Rhone, France. The 2016 whites from Yves Cuilleron are just spectacular with his lieu-dit Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage blancs really impressing me, but…
2016 Cameron Winery, Pinot Noir, Ribbon Ridge, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Oh, wow, this very dark 2016 Cameron Ribbon Ridge Pinot is really something else, it has a crazy first impression…
2017 Weingut Friedrich Becker, Petit Rose, Pfalz Germany. One of Germany’s best known Pinot Noir producers, Weingut Friedrich Becker, in the Pfalz crafts some beautiful and detailed wines in this…
2017 Diatom, Chardonnay “Santos Road” 3-D Vineyard, Sta. Rita Hills. The Greg Brewer made, single clone Diatom, Chardonnay “Santos Road” known as the Hyde clone, is sourced from a tiny…
2016 Jean Foillard, Gamay, Beaujolais-Villages, France. Foillard is one of the great wineries of France, famed for their Morgon Cru Beaujolais along with a single parcel Fleurie, these are absolutely…
2011 J. Rochioli, Chardonnay, South River, Russian River Valley. Another full bodied single vineyard offering from Rochioli, the 14.5% natural alcohol South River is a lush and powerful wine that…