Happy 2008 from PB, NW, and Billy here at the Wine Cask Blog. We are wishing you all the best. To ring in the new year here, PB and I celebrated with a toast of Moet & Chandon White Star Champagne. that ran me about $40 and it is generally regarded as good Champagne. While sparkling wines abo…

I want to take that chance to wish all readers a happy new year. Let’s hope that 2008 will be an interesting one, in the right sense.We have 20 adults and 22 children descending on us tonight for a wild new year’s eve party. I expect we will drink some wine, and even more beer. Catering for that man…

Four more wines tasted: a German Riesling, a Douro red, a Priorat and a Chilean Gewurztraminer. Original post by Jamie

PB and NW and I paid about $47 for that Barolo. We next decanted it for about 5 hours before tasting it. As you’ll see, it still wasn’t sufficient date! (WOW!)NOSE: HUGE NOSE, SWEET AND SOFT BLENDED MOIST TOBACCO, ROSE, RAISINS (CURRANTS), SMOKED CEDAR, CINNAMON??PALATE: TIGHT (STILL!!), FISTED T…

We paid about $11 for that South African Pinotage. It was tasted blind against the Pinot Noir and Barbera D’Alba reviewed below. Of the three it was the worst. NOSE: TOBACCO, SPICE, BANDAID TASTE, PLASTICPALATE: SMOKEY, STRONG ACIDS AND TANNIC STRUCTURE. nearly ROUGHFINISH: SMALL GREEN PEPPER TA…

We paid about $18 for that Barbera D’Alba and tasted it blind against the Pinot Noir (review below) and Pinotage (review above)NOSE: SPICE, A PINOT SMELL, CHARCOAL, BLUEBERRY LEAVESPALATE: COMPLEX STRUCTURE, STRONG TANNINS AND ACIDS BUT UNBALANCED. DRINKABLE BUT lost THE SOPHISTICATION.FINISH: WARM…

We paid about $28 for that wine and tasted it blind against a South African Pinotage and an Italian Barbera D’Alba. NOSE: Mushroomy. A slight “pinot stink” but much more subtle and nuanced than I typically expect.PALATE: Even Feel, excellent structure and strength without being overpowering. FINI…

I’m snatching a few moments online to update my blog, but in the process I’m anxious not to go anywhere near my usual online news sources where there’s a danger I might see the football scores. that is considering City were playing Liverpool that afternoon, and tonight I want to watch Match of The D…

Wine is everywhere! It’s hard to believe that wine has become the beverage of choice for millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of society worldwide. Three years ago, we decided to launch The Wine Cask Blog. It was December 2004, and we wanted a way to gather our wine reviews in one place…

NW, PB, and I are all together and tasting for the post Christmas holiday. that evening it was a Cabernet flight. The goal was all cabs in the $15 range from different regions of the world. We selected a California, Argentina, and Australian Cabernet Sauvignon. NW and I liked the Australian wh…