Author: gusclemens

If you go into almost any wine shop, liquor store, or supermarket wine section in the United States—and now in most places in the world—you will find wine bottles arranged and named by the variety of grape used to make the wine. Continue reading →

Medium ruby color; cherry, raspberry, plum, strawberry, dried herbs, chocolate on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Deep garnet color; cherry, black plum, orange oil, blackberry, raspberry, graphite, pencil shavings, earth, black pepper, juniper berry, oak on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Deep ruby color; dark cherry, plum, blackcurrant, chocolate-covered raspberry, vanilla, oak, baking spice on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Pale gold color; pink grapefruit, lemon-lime, honeydew melon, white peach, pineapple, pear, honeysuckle, saline-minerality on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres of ordinary. Continue reading →

Deep ruby-garnet color; dark cherry, blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, chocolate, oak, cedar, tomato leaf, spice on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Deep ruby color; cherry, plum, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, licorice, oak, vanilla on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

What makes a great wine? There is a hard and fast answer: “great wine comes from great vineyards.” Continue reading →

Deep ruby color; blueberry, cherry, blackberry, redcurrant, raspberry, oak, vanilla, leather on the nose and palate. Continue reading →