Category: Wine Reviews

2012 Domaine Michel Lafarge, Bourgogne Passetoutgrain, L’Exception, Pinot Noir/Gamay, Burgundy, France. Here is an old school Burgundy with a twist, Passe-tout-grain is the only allowed blended cuvee in Burgundy, it…

2012 Cedric Bouchard, Champagne Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Noirs, Pinot Noir, Cote de Val Vilaine, France. This wildly intriguing Champagne from Cedric Bouchard was all sourced from the vintage…

2013 Kruger-Rumpf, Riesling, Munsterer Dautenpflanzer, Feinherb, Nahe Germany. This is marvelous Riesling, and it will be surely a most sought after wine, it comes from the Grand Cru of Dauntenpflanzer…

2011 Jean Foillard, Fleurie, Cru Beaujolais, Gamay, France. I have a soft spot for Foillard’s wines, a historical bias and love of Gamay, but with all honesty, this new release…

2000 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac, Grand Cru Classe, Red Bordeaux, France. Checking in on 2000 Bordeaux is always revealing, but ultimately disappointing, especially the wines you want…

2013 Weingut Ingrid Groiss, Gruner Veltliner, Weinviertel DAC, Austria. Wow, what a fabulous wine, this was my first experience tasting the Groiss wines from Weinviertel, a region north of Krems,…

1996 Schloss Schonborn, Riesling, Domdechaney, Rheingau, Germany. Graf von Schonborn Schloss Schonborn is one of the Rheingau region’s classic estates and has been making wine under the Schonborn family since…

2013 Vino Volvoreta, Flores de Cerezo, Toro DO, Spain. Maria Alfonso Hernandez, of Toro in Spain, joins the list of aspiring young female natural winemakers, she, like Arianna Occhipinti in…

2011 Benoit Dehu, Coteaux Champenois Rouge “La Rue des Noyers” Pinot Meunier, Champagne Still Red Wine, France. This old Champagne house has been around since before the French Revolution, it…

2013 Domaine Clusel-Roch, Traboules, Coteaux du Lyonnais, France. Guillaume Clusel’s Traboules is 100% Gamay from just outside of Lyon, but made at Ampuis, Northern Rhone, not too far away, made…