Category: Wine Reviews

Grapelive’s Top Ten Wines of 2014 By Kerry Winslow After 365 Wines of the Day and many extra tasting reports I’ve picked my Top Ten Wines of the Year for…

2013 Yann Chave, Crozes-Hermitage, Red Rhone Valley, France. Yann Chave makes one of the best Syrahs for the price and his latest release the 2013 Crozes-Hermitage is a great example,…

2012 Weingut Donnhoff, Riesling, Oberhauser Brucke, Eiswein, Nahe Germany. 375ml-Half Bottle. Cornelius Donnhoff’s Oberhauser Brucke icewine 2012 is absolutely perfect and one of the most pristine examples of sweet wine…

N.V. Franck Pascal, Tolerance, Brut Rose Champagne, Valle de la Marne, France. The Champagne Franck Pascal bubbly is a unique terroir expression wine from heavier clay soils of his estate…

2012 Piero Benevelli, Barbera d’ Alba DOC, Bricco Ravera, Piedmonte, Italy. Massimo Benevelli only makes about 4,000 total each vintage from family plots in Barolo’s Monforte d’ Alba in the…

2012 Lucia by Pisoni, Syrah, Garys’ Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands. The Lucia wines have touched a next level (of quality) with the 2012 vintage, and I think they are lead…

2010 Domaine Meo-Camuzet, Vosne-Romanee, Red Burgundy, France. This is a good time of year, lots of gifts around the Holiday Season, and some wonderful wine being shared, I felt blessed…

2007 Paolo Bea, Pipparello, Rosso Riserva, Montefalco DOC, Umbria, Italy. The wines at Paolo Be a are natural, unique and wonderfully different, they employee natural winemaking methods, no chemicals or…

2013 Alfaro Family, Pinot Noir, Mary Katherine Vineyard, Estate, Santa Cruz Mountains. The organically certified vines are used to create the Mary Katherine wines at Alfaro Family Vineyards, both the…

2009 Vilmart et Cie, Grand Cellier “Rubis” Vintage Brut Rose Champagne, Rilly la Montagne, France. Vilmart’s stellar 2009 Rubis Vintage Rubis Rose is one of my wines of the year,…