100 Point wines
STUPID WINE DESCRIPTIONS
For many years now I have been writing about stupid wine descriptions (to read about past years winners and links to all previous articles click here). Believe me that are a lot to choose from! So let’s take one of the newest ones from this year. Very recently I received a note on NV Charles […]
Click here to read entire article »THE CURRENT STATE OF NAPA VALLEY
A recent article in The New York Times featured a brief history of the Napa Valley and one of its major vineyard owners Andy Beckstoffer. Mr. Beckstoffer is 80 years old and has been around Napa Valley since 1967. At that time he worked for Heublein, an East Coast-based liquor conglomerate. He helped them […]
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IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! STUPID WINE DESCRIPTIONS For the last 5 years I have published my list of the most stupid wine descriptions from the past year. The list is a compilation of what I think are the most stupid wine descriptions published by some of the 100 point wine writers. And, hard […]
Click here to read entire article »WHAT DO NUMBERS HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
In the May 5-6, 2018 OFF DUTY supplement to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL the headline article was Do The Right Wines Win? by Lettie Teague. The author and a group of her wine friends decided to buy some relatively low priced wines with big numbers scores. Basically the article talked about the 100 […]
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 »DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS ON THE WINE CALENDAR?
It seems that things are always presented as seasonal. Do you think that people drink wine according to the season? I don’t know what other people do, but I do know that certain foods are seasonal and wine is just another food group. So it stands to reason that wine and food should go together […]
Click here to read entire article »THE JUDGMENT OF MOSCOW
Hear ye! Hear ye! First there was the famous Judgment of Paris where California wines topped French wines. Now there is The Judgment of Moscow. The Russians are coming and they are taking no prisoners. They are after every thing in sight and that includes wine. The boys best known for alcohol and Vodka […]
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 »CAUTION! WHAT’S IN YOUR WINE?
I have been writing about additives and manipulated wines for some time. So first let me guide you to where the Underground has been (just click on the title to read the article). Beginning in 2011 there was my article WHAT IS WINE? This was followed by subsequent articles: WHAT’S IN YOUR WINE BOTTLE? YIKES! […]
Click here to read entire article »DO IT YOURSELF WINE
Over the past 40 years or so I have consumed more different wines than I can possibly remember. I have consumed, tasted, and written about tens of thousands of different wines. And, the number may well be even higher. I have never counted! The wines cover every thing from A to Z (think Albariño […]
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