wines
STILL DON’T KNOW JURA? YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING!
DOMAINE JEAN-FRANCOIS GANEVAT Last year I tasted some of the most incredible young wines I have ever experienced. And, just to make it even more interesting, they were wines that I knew nothing about. On March 20, 2011 I posted an article entitled “You Don’t Know Jura”. Reprinted below is the introduction […]
Click here to read entire article »ROSÉ IS THE PERFECT ANTI WINE
OK gang. Let’s hear it for anti wine. But, before you erupt in a thunderous ovation, let’s first define anti wine. For me, anti wine is wine that is balanced and tasty without being over the top. Why is that anti you might ask? Well, today a lot of people equate wine with a number and the bigger the number the better the wine is supposed to be.
Click here to read entire article »Retrospective Review: Volume II, Number 4 (February-March, 1981)
We are currently reproducing a copy of Volume II, Number 4 of The Underground Wineletter. Below you’ll find an updated review of each article, where I will go over what we got right and what we got wrong. We will follow this format with each successive issue. So Volume II, Number 5 will be […]
Click here to read entire article »2004 WHITE BURGUNDIES: PREMOX OR NOT? THE BEAT GOES ON!
I had just posted my article on Premox (to read that article click here) when I set off to attend another tasting of the 2004 White Burgundies. I mentioned in the Premox article that Don Cornwell had been doing tastings each vintage of selected White Burgundies for several years. (To see that report click here) […]
Click here to read entire article »THE MONUMENTAL 2009 WINES OF THE DOMAINE DE LA ROMANÉE-CONTI
I recently attended the West Coast tasting of the 2009 Domaine De La Romanée Conti wines. This was the 33rd vintage to be represented by the importer Wilson Daniels. The tasting was held on January 23, 2012 at Quince Restaurant in San Francisco. A few days prior a similar tasting was held in New York. […]
Click here to read entire article »IS ONE WINEDRINKER’S PREMOX ANOTHER WINEDRINKER’S BOTOX ?
OK. This is your question of the day? Or do you even care? Maybe you don’t have a clue about either Premox or Botox. I guess if you are a hard core White Burgundy aficionado you may have been totally immersed in the issue of Premox. And, I guess if you are getting […]
Click here to read entire article »FINE WINE AND FINE PRINT
Background In my first article on wine fraud (to read that article click here) I outlined the sequence of installments for the article. That included an installment on the discovery of fraudulent wines over the last 30 or so years and a listing of the various pending lawsuits alleging wine fraud. But then a new […]
Click here to read entire article »LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE!
It happened! After all the controversy about the Spectrum/Vanquish wine auction and possible fraudulent wines, the auction was held as scheduled on the evening of February 8 in London. At the last minute, a significant number of the old Domaine Romanée Conti wines were pulled from the auction. At this point there is a lot […]
Click here to read entire article »WINE FRAUD – LIGHTNING STRIKES!
Within weeks of publishing the Underground wine fraud article (To read that article click here), a small group of people lead by Geoffrey Troy, an Underground contributing editor, and Don Cornwell, a diligent investigator of wine fraud and preoxidation or Premox in White Burgundies, discovered discrepancies in an up coming wine auction. Don posted the […]
Click here to read entire article »WINE FRAUD – CAVEAT EMPTOR!
WINE FRAUD – CAVEAT EMPTOR! PART II UPDATE FEBRUARY 6, 2012 The fast breaking story on wine fraud has a completely new revelation on the possibility of fraud in a large number of Domaine Romanee Conti wines being offered for sale at auction. The discrepancies on the bottles has now been specifically identified. The […]
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