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John Tilson
2016 THANKSGIVING POSTSCRIPT AND MORE!
Thanksgiving 2016 has been long gone for most people – except at our house. At our house we began preparing and making different things in November well before Thanksgiving. This gives me a chance to try a lot of different wines as well. Then Thanksgiving goes on for a long time. For us our traditional […]
Click here to read entire article »ATTENTION ALL WINE DRINKERS: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DRINKING?
Do you really know the wine you are drinking? Maybe not. Consider this. Recently I received a note from an old friend who was trying to drink a cult Napa Valley Cabernet and he had this to say: I am sitting here sipping a .. …… .. ……… It tastes like black cherry cough drops […]
Click here to read entire article »HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2016!
Yes, Thanksgiving will soon be here. As always, we have been planning our Thanksgiving dinner for weeks. The historical significance, the meal itself , and the chance to gather with family and friends to give thanks for all the blessings we have, makes it one of my very favorite days of the years. And, yes, […]
Click here to read entire article »BURGUNDY – 2016 VISIT
Accompanied by my longtime friends John Brincko and Geoffrey Troy, who are also Contributing Editors to the Underground, I have just returned from Burgundy. We enjoyed wonderful sunny weather with the vineyards ablaze with color and tasted 2015 Burgundies from barrel. This was the 36th year of Burgundy visits to taste wine from barrel. […]
Click here to read entire article »YIKES! THE 1000 POINT WINE SCORE IS HERE
The 1000 point wine scoring system to replace an already exaggerated 100 point wine scoring system is one of the things I have joked about for years (to read an article on the absurdity of 1000 point scoring click here). But, guess what? In today’s strange world the 1000 point score is here and […]
Click here to read entire article »CHANIN WINE COMPANY AND LUTUM WINES – AN OUTSTANDING GROUP OF 2014 CHARDONNAYS AND PINOT NOIRS
INTRODUCTION Gavin Chanin began his wine career at Au Bon Climat and then started Chanin Wine Company in 2007. In 2011 an association was formed with Bill Price to make wines under the Lutum label (Lutum is Latin for soil or dirt). All of the wines are now made at the winery in Lompoc. […]
Click here to read entire article »CHAMPAGNE DAY 2016
From the very early days, The Underground Wineletter has been a big fan of Champagne with a very large number of Champagne articles written over nearly four decades (click here to read the Retrospective Review of our first article on Champagne from December 1979). And, I have always said that at our house every […]
Click here to read entire article »MOUNT EDEN VINEYARDS AND DOMAINE EDEN: A DYNAMIC DUO
MOUNT EDEN VINEYARDS OCTOBER RELEASES AND DOMAINE EDEN RELEASES FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR Mount Eden Vineyards I have have been visiting, buying, cellaring, and drinking Mount Eden Vineyards wines for some 40 years. Here is a brief description from an earlier article: Mount Eden Vineyards is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains above […]
Click here to read entire article »2015 ROSÉS AS SUMMER ENDS AND THE FALL SEASON BEGINS
This is my third article on 2015 rosés (to read the other two articles click here and here). And, although summer is gone it is not the time to stop drinking rosés. Here is what I had to say on that subject in an earlier article: And, although summer is the time that most […]
Click here to read entire article »RIDGE VINEYARDS: SUPERB NEW RELEASES & WINE INGREDIENT LABELING
NEW RELEASES When it comes to Ridge Vineyards it is easy to get carried away. For as long as I have been involved in wine, Ridge has been very special. For nearly 50 years I have been buying, drinking, and cellaring Ridge wines. I drink them often and have more Ridge wines in my […]
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