Articles by
John Tilson
FOOD AND WINE SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING MEAL
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! It is really hard to believe, but it’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and we are busy preparing for this years feast. Since I was a small child our Thanksgiving meal has been my favorite meal of the year. It is also a wonderful day for celebration […]
Click here to read entire article »PREVIEW: ALONG THE BUGUNDY TRAIL VINTAGE 2013
I have just returned from Burgundy where I began tasting wines from barrel 34 years ago. During this period I have missed only a handful of vintages (including last year when health issues kept me away). What I can say is that some of the 2013 red wines that I tasted are amongst the greatest […]
Click here to read entire article »WHERE HAS NAPA VALLEY GONE?
LONG TIME PASSING WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN? As I look back on the changes in Napa Valley over the last 40 years since my friends and I first started going there in the early 1970s, I cannot help but reflect on the great Pete Seeger song “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?”. This song […]
Click here to read entire article »DOMAINE COCHE-DURY & CORTON-CHARLEMAGNE: A MAGICAL COMBINATION
Recently, I attended a dinner at Melisse restaurant in Santa Monica, CA with four friends where we drank 7 vintages of Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne that were paired with superb food. That is the basis for this article. But, before I get into that, I would first like to make a few comments about Domaine Coche-Dury and […]
Click here to read entire article »OLD WHITE BURGUNDY
A Complex Tale of Two Wines With a Window Into Premox Recently I had an opportunity to drink 2 older White Burgundies. The wines were: 1992 Joseph Drouhin Corton Charlemagne and 1999 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet. They offered an interesting paradox into the current state of White Burgundy. 1992 Joseph Drouhin Corton Charlemagne Oxidized […]
Click here to read entire article »1990 RED BURGUNDY
TWO GREAT BOTTLES OF 1990 RED BURGUNDY When I first tasted the 1990 Red Burgundies from barrel over 20 years ago (Underground Wineletter Volume XIII, Numbers 1 & 2, August-September 1991), I thought it was the greatest Burgundy vintage I had ever tasted from barrel. Today I would also include 2005 and 2009 on […]
Click here to read entire article »SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN VINEYARD AND QUINTA CRUZ
SOME STUNNING NEW WINES THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS! I recently visited Jeff Emery again at his winery in Santa Cruz where he makes Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Petite Sirah, and Durif under the Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard label. Under the Quinta Cruz label he also makes Spanish and Portuguese varieties – […]
Click here to read entire article »CALERA WINE COMPANY
Calera Is On A Roll! I recently visited Calera Vineyards where I tasted a range of wines including all the estate Pinot Noirs from 2011 (which were bottled in April-May of last year with some released now and the others to be released later in the year), 2012 (which were bottled in April-May of […]
Click here to read entire article »MOUNT EDEN VINEYARDS AND DOMAINE EDEN
Mount Eden Vineyards is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Saratoga. It was launched in 1972 on the site of the old Martin Ray Estate which was started in 1945. My first visit to Mount Eden was in the early 1970s. The wines from here are some of the best made in California and […]
Click here to read entire article »MORE 2013 ROSÉS
This is the last article on the 2013 Rosés (to read the others click here and click here). Don’t worry about buying rosés too late in the season. They will keep fine and I will have an article on that soon (just a hint – most French Rosés keep exceptionally well). Seemingly more than […]
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