Premium-priced wine from Italy has had a rough time of it lately. Between the Brunello controversy, the questions currently circulating about the quality of the 2006 Barolo vintage, and the overall economic downturn and its effects on global wine prices, I would imagine that Italy may be in the unenviable position of being the exception to [...]
Read more →Sticking with the big-ish winery theme for a moment longer, I also recently tasted Merryvale‘s Starmont line. The winery described this line as “food friendly, fruit driven” with “subtle oak nuance.” I’d describe the Starmont Chardonnay as the winery’s bread and butter wine — they make more than 25,000 cases of it annually, and it has [...]
Read more →One of the many fun things about tasting and writing about wines is the sheer diversity of offerings. There’s the small, eclectic producer making hand-crafted wines… There are the determined efforts to save local, traditional wines made from grapes you’ve probably never heard of… There are the big winery groups that can take advantage of economies [...]
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