Grapelive: Wine of the Day March 21, 2021
2016 Lynmar Estate, Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley.The luxurious and deeply flavored Lynmar appellation series Russian River Pinot is a surprisingly energetic and balanced wine for such an opulent wine…
2016 Lynmar Estate, Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley.The luxurious and deeply flavored Lynmar appellation series Russian River Pinot is a surprisingly energetic and balanced wine for such an opulent wine…
2019 Storm Wines, Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County.Only 230 cases were produced of this beautiful deep ruby hued and silken Pinot Noir by Ernst Storm, a talented winemaker who grew…
2018 Arnot-Roberts, Trousseau, North Coast, California.The 2018 Arnot-Roberts Trousseau is a gloriously pale red with a soft ruby glow in the glass and is wonderfully delicate in its fruit showing…
2019 Theopolis Vineyard, Theo-Parra’s Cuvee Cerise, Red Blend, California.The newest wine in the impressive cast of characters at Theopolis Vineyards is Theodora Lee’s red blend called the Theo-Patra’s Cuvee Cerise,…
2018 Weingut Selbach-Oster, Riesling Feinherb, Zeltinger Sonnenuhr “Ur” Alte Reben, MCM, Mosel Germany.Beautifully dimensioned and concentrated with a dry Spatlese feel with an off dry creaminess of texture this special…
2018 Domaine Saint-Damien, Gigondas “La Louisiane” Vieilles Vignes, Rhone Valley, France.The Domaine Saint-Damien, founded back 1821 is a small family winery in the southern Rhone based in the famed Gigondas…
2019 Casa Nuestra, Dry Riesling, St. Helena, Napa Valley.The crisp and vibrant Dry Riesling by Casa Nuestra, a winery I featured yesterday I know, based in Napa Valley’s St. Helena…
2014 Casa Nuestra, Tinto St. Helena, Napa Valley.One of my favorite Napa haunts and one of the Valley’s best kept secrets, Casa Nuestra Winery, which means “our house” in Spanish…
2019 Dirty & Rowdy, Barbera, Mendocino County.The dark purple/garnet and juicy Mendocino County Barbera from Hardy Wallace and Dirty & Rowdy begs for a steaming mass of pasta and spicy…
2013 Littorai, Pinot Noir, Mays Canyon, Sonoma Coast.Ted Lemon, who is humbly and with great precision, is continuing to make some of California’s most beautiful Pinot Noir wines and his…