Every now and soon after I drink a wine that (almost) leaves me speechless. It’s usually not wines that wow with their first sniff or sip, but rather wines that beguile - that draw you in, and as your attention becomes focused on them, they seem to reveal progressively more, engaging both intellect …

I really did get lost and diverted, but I’m back. My first stop in Paso Robles, with Steve and Carole, was Anglim. We first encountered Anglim at a wine bar last year. The 2004 Roussanne was spectacular. When I knew I would be driving down the coast, I emailed Steffanie and she graciously agreed to …

Here’s the first…it’s a bit of a trial, with footage taken from the recent sojourn in Wales. I’ve just recorded my first ‘Late night wine’, which will follow whether that works properly.

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I bought that as a Wine Spectator pick and they gave it 87 pts. I didn’t care for it writing at the moment I tasted a few weeks back: Dry cherry bouquet with vegetal, daffodil scent.Palate plus yields daffodils, a little bitter on the finish; less than exciting.Hey–you don’t always agree with the…

Reviewed previously that $7 wine from Portugal is pale yellow with big rich sweet bouquet of light vanilla and lemon on opening but changes to apples and peaches with a day in the fridge.Palate is off dry with forward acid, citrus and vanilla. Finishes a touch bitter but again improves with a day o…

A really nice Corsican white, that. Vermentino is the grape, and I really like it. whether you are interested, the producer’s website is here.Domaine Saparale 2006 Corse Sartene, FranceFrom the island of Corsica, that is a varietal Vermentino from Philippe Farinelli’s 100 acre estate. It’s vibrant,…

Birthdays qualify as a special occasion to open that “special” wine and tonight we celebrated my 54th. A day of celebration to be certain for I realized that it was 27 years ago when I was 27 years old that I was hit head on by a drunk driver. I should have been dead but the Lord had other plans.S…

Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve just spent a week in a cottage in Wales (pictured) with the family and dog. We’ve had no World Wide Web access and no mobile phone signal, so it has been a real break: while I took a couple of laptops, I did no work, other than write a few notes on wines drunk.The c…

I purchased that bottle on a trip that summer to Minneapolis. I had never seen that label and since Hess produces solid wines at all levels, I packed it and brought it him. It has a hefty black cherry hue with rich cherry bouquet and black berry nose with a touch of gentle spice that is tantalizin…

Several years ago I went to a tasting of Bordeaux style blends organized by the Washington State Wine Commission. that tasting had been taken on the road to New York and Tokyo and I got to sample it at the Society of Wine Educators meeting in Bellevue, Washington. There were eight wines - 4 Washing…