This Oregon wine presents as a very light crystalline black cherry hue with pronounced green pepper aromas on opening with slight pepper nose. With 10 minutes of air the green pepper aromas are gone replaced by strawberry fruit fragrances.Palate–Somewhat subdued with a tip of licorice and smokey b…

Barely straw hued with nice aromas of Lime, ripe pineapple and lemon touches.Palate– Off dry, with solid acid but a bit much on the alcohol that overshadows the fruit. It has a juicy core but fleeting flavors. I think my wife paid around $8 and it’s OK whether you’re desperate for a fair facsimil…

This Grand Vin De Bordeaux from the hallowed vintage of 05 presents with an opaquish garnet hue with nice blackberry aromas with a tart raspberry note accompanied by herbal fruit notes.Palate–Cinnamon on first pass with minerals galore and a nice bready,berry fruit foundation with fully integrated …

Light golden straw hue with ample bouquet of tropical fruit with melon, powdery vanilla and cream notes.Palate–Racy acidity, with solid structure and loads of citrusy, tropical fruit compote all wrapped into one big fruity, value Chard. It even has a finish that let’s you know what you’ve been dri…

Black cherry hue with aromas of ripe black cherry-berry fruit rising from the table. Hints of cedar and eucalyptus with oak touches. Nice.Palate: Fairly soft with good first impression of baker’s chocolate with tight fruit on solid structure and a finish of burnt wood/smoke/charcoal. Needs air.Wi…

A short while ago, Blogger, the medium by which that blog is currently published, announced that they’d no longer be supporting publishing by ftp. For the non-technical, let me explain. Currently, I use blogger to compose and organize blog posts, and next I publish them to my own web space, on my do…

This is a really lovely northern Rhône Syrah, made by Maxime Graillot, son of Alan (the most famous grower in that appellation of Crozes-Hermitage). It’s quite an edgy, polarising sort of wine, though: with its high acidity and bold, striking flavours, some will fall in love while others will find …

Here I take a look at New Zealand Syrah, tasting two top-notch examples on camera. Will it be the next big thing from Kiwiland? Too soon to say, with less than 300 hectares of Syrah planted in the whole country. But I’m a big fan – I’m excited by the wines that I’ve tried so far.

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At the Pinot Noir 2010 symposium I was interviewed by Jamie Drummond of Good Food Revolution - you can view the interview here:

Jamie Drummond on Food and Wine: Episode 12 - Jamie Goode from GoodFoodRevolution on Vimeo.

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Just on my way back from Sarah Ahmed’s 50 Great Portuguese Wines tasting. Having done that job last year, I know how difficult it is to narrow down that selection to just 50: Portugal must be the most underrated wine-producing country on the planet. Sarah is pictured above, with one of her favourite…