The biggest change in wine in the past 20 years did not happen in vineyards or wineries. It happened on the internet, at least in my opinion and the opinion of Natalie MacLean, the award-winning wine writer who has Canada’s largest and most popular on-line wine website with some 270,000 subscribers. Continue reading
Month: March 2019
Chalk Hill Estate Red Wine, Sonoma County 2016
Chalk Hill Estate Red Wine, Sonoma County 2016: Deep purple color; dark cherry, spice, toasty oak; black cherry, blackcurrant, plum, dark berries, faint note of sweet vanilla oak, chip of chocolate on the palate. Continue reading
Gonzalez Byass Tio Pepe Fino Muy Seco Sherry, Jerez Xérès NV
Pale gold color; yeast, toasted almonds on the nose; white fruit flavors, lemon, salinity on the palate. Continue reading
Wine and refrigeration
Wine typically drinks best at five-to-thirty degrees cooler than you keep your home temperature, and five-to-twenty-five degrees warmer than your home refrigerator. What do you do to get your wine to the proper temperature? Continue reading