Tag: best

What’s Your Best Wine? Tasting the Wine & Spirits Top 100

The difference between a good public wine tasting and a bad one can be quite dramatic. The bad ones are

The Best Wines from Chile?: Tasting Notes for Wines over $40

As some of you know, I spent the last week traveling around Chile trying to get a sense of the

The Best Cabernet In Napa: Tasting Premiere Napa Valley 2009

One of my favorite events each year involves the opportunity to sample some of the best wines that Napa produces

Kapcsándy Family Winery, Napa: Current Releases

Napa has a way of turning modest dreams into major productions. Lou Kapcsándy and his wife Bobbie decided to retire

Kubota Manju (Junmai Daiginjo), Niigata Prefecture

When people often ask me how I “got into wine” I have a sense that they are expecting me to

1996 J. Rochioli “West Block” Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley

To paraphrase Shakespeare, there are wineries that are born great, those that achieve greatness, and those that have greatness thrust