Category: Wine Reviews

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…

2018 Domaine Merlin Francois, Cote-Rotie, Northern Rhone, France.The Domaine Merlin Francois of Lauent and Francois Merlin is totally new to me and this beautifully made Cote-Rotie was an excellent discovery…

2018 Stolpman “La Cuadrilla” Red Blend, Ballard Canyon, Santa Ynez Valley.The La Cuadrilla or the the crew’s wine, is a pure California gem from Stolpman with the grapes all coming…