Grapelive: Wine of the Day March 23, 2019
2014 Chateau Haut-Ségottes, Saint Emilion Grand Cru, Red Bordeaux, France. A highly entertaining wine and sleeper in this ho hum vintage, the Chateau Haut-Ségottes shows a classic and decedent array…
2014 Chateau Haut-Ségottes, Saint Emilion Grand Cru, Red Bordeaux, France. A highly entertaining wine and sleeper in this ho hum vintage, the Chateau Haut-Ségottes shows a classic and decedent array…
2017 Nanclares y Prieto, Albariño “Tempus Vivendi Rosina” Rias Baixas, Galicia, Spain. Nanclares y Prieto, led by Alberto Nanclares and joined by the youthful talents of Silvia Prieto, has fast…
2015 Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aine, Crozes-Hermitage Rouge, Domaine de Thalabert, Northern Rhone, France. This Jaboulet Crozes-HermitagevDomaine de Thalabert 2015 with it’s concentration, ripe flavors and refined tannins is a lovely…
2017 Weingut Von Winning, Riesling Trocken, Estate, Pfalz, Germany. It’s terribly hard not to love these 2017 vintage Rieslings from Germany, and especially these Von Winnings that hail from the…
2016 Saint-Cosme, Saint-Joseph Rouge, Northern Rhone, France. Louis Barruol’s negociant Saint-Joseph Rouge comes from, as he puts it, one of the most underrated areas of the Rhone Valley, being a…
2017 Anthony Road Winery, Riesling, Semi-Dry, Fingers Lakes, New York State. The lightly sweet Riesling, Semi-Dry, by Anthony Road is a nicely balanced and generous wine with terroir driven character,…
2017 Hundred Suns, Pinot Noir, Old Eight Cut, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Hundred Suns Wines, a reference to the growing season that lasts a hundred days between flowering and harvest, is…
2017 Weingut Carl Loewen, Riesling Trocken, Maximin Klosterlay, Mosel Germany. The Maximin Klosterlay, a Erste Lage site, from the village of Detzem, where is gorgeous Riesling hails from, was the…
2018 Joyce Wine Company, Dry Riesling “Alluvial Fan” Monterey County. The lovely and bright new Alluvial Fan Dry Riesling from Joyce Wine Company is more flamboyant in fruit and mouth…
2017 Domaine de L’Ecu, Muse, Rosé of Cabernet Sauvignon, Vin de France, Loire Valley, France. Fred Niger’s Domaine de L’Ecu, one of Muscadet’s top estates, Rosé “Muse” is a unique…