Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 25, 2024
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3d ago
The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 25, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format.   They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read them), so you can get right to the point and decide if they’re for you (or not). Cheers! 2019 Foley Family Brut (Sta. Rita Hills): Flowers, biscuits, and a veritable orcha ..read more
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Grenache By Any Other Name (Madrevite Recent Releases)
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1w ago
The post Grenache By Any Other Name (Madrevite Recent Releases) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. Madrevite‘s Nicola Chiucchiurlotto has one of those made-for-TV-movie prodigal son type of stories that seem so prevalent in the wine world. In 2003, Chiucchiurlotto founded Madrevite in Castiglione del Lago, which sits in the hills near lakes Trasimeno and Chiusi, along the Umbria/Tuscany border. In that way, Chiucchiurlotto would seem like a relative newcomer by Italian wine standards (the region has viticultural history dating back to Etruscan times), but his current crop of 11 hectares of vines ..read more
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 18, 2024
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1w ago
The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 18, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format.   They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read them), so you can get right to the point and decide if they’re for you (or not). Cheers! 2020 Monteabellon ’14 Mesas’ Tempranillo (Ribera del Duero): Dark! Lots of cherry ..read more
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What We Drank: V-Day 2024
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2w ago
The post What We Drank: V-Day 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. When you’ve got a toddler, date nights don’t come easy. Come to think of it,m when you’ve got a toddler, most things don’t come easy. Not that we don’t love the irrepressible little tyke, but some alone adult time helps recharge the parenting batteries, right? Last month for Valentine’s Day, Shannon and I somehow made a date night outing work, getting a dinner alone at one of our favorite local stops, Terrain Cafe. So I raided the media sample pool to see what might be appropriate options to sip along with our finely plated vi ..read more
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A Carménère Reckoning: Revisiting Chile’s Rowdy, Oft-Reviled Red
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2w ago
The post A Carménère Reckoning: Revisiting Chile’s Rowdy, Oft-Reviled Red appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. “Love child, love child, never quite as good Afraid, ashamed, misunderstood” – The Supremes Carménère gets a bad rap. Particularly in my house, since my girlfriend despises pyrazine notes in her reds. For that alone, Chilean red wines are practically banned at our dining table (and here you thought that she was all 100% sweetheart, didn’t you?). But good ol’ Carménère has a rather long history with me (or, I should say that I have a rather long history with it), and I’ve recently jumped ..read more
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 4, 2024
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3w ago
The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 4, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format.   They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read them), so you can get right to the point and decide if they’re for you (or not). Cheers! NV Albert Bichot Cremant de Bourgogne Brut Reserve (Burgundy): Earth-y, biscuit-y ..read more
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Postcard From Sannio, Part 3: …And All the Rest
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1M ago
The post Postcard From Sannio, Part 3: …And All the Rest appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. This is the third (and final) entry in my three-part wrap-up of recent media jaunt to Sannio in southern Italy (check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already). Today, we’ll put a bow on things from this little slice of Campania but focusing on anything that’s not Aglianico or Falanghina. There’s a lot about Sannio that’s impressively charming, but I found this tidbit to be particularly awesome: in 1951, a local mayor proposed doubling the tax on Coca-Cola in order to help promote an increase in wine ..read more
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for February 26, 2024
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1M ago
The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for February 26, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format.   They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read them), so you can get right to the point and decide if they’re for you (or not). Cheers! 2022 Masciarelli Villa Gemma Bianco Colline Teatine (Abruzzo): Yellow apple, ri ..read more
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Postcard From Sannio, Part 2: Aglianico del Taburno
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1M ago
The post Postcard From Sannio, Part 2: Aglianico del Taburno appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. This is part two of a three-part series covering my media jaunt last year to Sannio, in Italy’s southern region of Campania. For part one, we focused on the region’s signature white (Falanghina). Today, we’re going to highlight Sannio’s signature red, Aglianico del Taburno. And we will also mention Chuck Norris (more on that in a few minutes). In the best spots where Aglianico is grown in Sannio, you can feel the cooling breeze brought in by the nearby mountains, which helps to mitigate the other thin ..read more
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for February 19, 2024
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1M ago
The post Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for February 19, 2024 appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format.   They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read them), so you can get right to the point and decide if they’re for you (or not). Cheers! NV Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port (Portugal): Solid stuff. A bit more dried fr ..read more
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