Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 24, 2016
2014 Once & Future, Petite Sirah, Palisades Vineyard, Calistoga, Napa Valley. Joel Peterson, the founder of California’s iconic Zinfandel house Ravenswood, has started a new project that takes him back…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 23, 2016
2015 Weingut Ingrid Groiss, Rose of Pinot Noir-Zweigelt, Sommerwein “Angel’s Kiss” Weinviertel Austria. The Groiss Rose is fast becoming one of my favorite pinks and joins an elite set of…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 22, 2016
2015 Casa Nuestra, Dry Chenin Blanc, Saint Helena, Napa Valley. One of the last remaining secrets of Napa Valley, Casa Nuestra’s gloriously brisk and vibrant dry Chenin, a wine that…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 21, 2016
2014 Ridge Vineyards, Lytton Springs, Proprietary Red, Dry Creek Valley. The stylish and sophisticated 2014 Lytton Springs has an almost subtle appeal in it’s youthful stage, but with classic Zinfandel…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 20, 2016
2015 Weingut Ingrid Groiss, Gemischter Satz, Braitenpuechtorff, Weinviertel, Austria. Ingrid Groiss has really taken the wine world by storm in recent years and it is always a rare treat to…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 19, 2016
2013 Guimaro, Mencia, Finca Meixeman, Ribeira Sacra, Spain. Galicia’s Pedro Rodriguez makes some of the most thrilling wines in Spain, his Guimaro Mencia reds are something special and they get…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 18, 2016
2012 G.D. Vajra, Barolo “Ravera” Piedmonte, Italy. These 2012’s are turning out to be much better than anyone could have hoped in Barolo, in fact I think, especially as young…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 17, 2016
2015 Brianne Day, Rose of Tannat/Cot “Babycheeks” Applegate Valley, Oregon. The brilliant and serious cool Brianne day Rose Babycheeks is from vineyards in southern Oregon in Applegate and is an…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 16, 2016
2013 Corsion, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley. One of California’s top Cabernets and a winery you must visit, Corison is where it’s at with a gorgeous lineup of savvy and pure…
Grapelive: Wine of the Day August 15, 2016
2013 Domaines Minchin, La Claux Delorme, Touraine Rouge “Franc du Cot-Lie” Loire Valley, France. This deeply colored and richly intense red from Domaines Minchin’s La Claux Delorme is a stunner,…