Rolly Gassmann Riesling Pflaenzerreben 1988
Updated: 2012-11-30 22:32:26
Home Wine of the Week Rolly Gassmann Riesling Pflaenzerreben 1988 Rolly Gassmann Riesling Pflaenzerreben 1988 Although there is certainly a Loire and Bordeaux focus to my chosen wines of the week , I do think it is healthy to look beyond these two regions every once in a while . This week I'm doing just that , with a rather randomly chosen wine from Alsace A lone bottle bought many years ago , perhaps when I was exploring Alsace in the early days of writing on Winedoctor , this is a true cellar orphan I've never tasted the wine before pulling the cork here , and I have or rather , had no idea as to its character , style , residual sugar , or what propensity the wine might have had for aging . Despite that , I have allowed it to languish in the cellar for a decade or two . Well , it is
Home Producer Profiles Bordeaux Profiles Château Malartic-Lagravière Page 1 of 3 previous 1 2 3 next Château Malartic-Lagravière So often in Bordeaux tales of familial domination eventually peter out , giving way to corporate fiscal superiority . Whether the owner is a French insurance firm , a Japanese conglomerate , or even a Champagne house , ownership and control by big business is not unknown in Bordeaux In fact , as Napoleonic laws of inheritance essentially force families into converting their estates into family-run businesses , and punitive inheritance taxes also take their toll , it seems almost like an inevitable . progression And so it is very fine to read of an estate where this process has been reversed . Château Malartic-Lagravière has passed through the hands of a number of
Home Wine of the Week Le Retout Blanc 2011 Le Retout Blanc 2011 This week , a wine to dispel a dozen notions . A wine with a story . And what's more , it tastes pretty good . too The vines that gave birth to this wine were planted in 1971 in Cussac-Fort-Médoc one of the communes that lies between St Julien to the north , and Margaux to the south Listrac and Moulis , which most people would place here when playing the ever-popular game of pin the commune to the map' , actually sit slightly inland , away from the Gironde The vineyard was established with the authority of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine INAO who had granted planting rights for the Haut-Médoc appellation . They were Merlot vines , and for decades the fruit was harvested and included in the wine of Château du
Home Wine of the Week Le Volte Dell'Ornellaia 2010 Le Volte Dell'Ornellaia 2010 Despite my predilection or should that be obsession for the vineyards and the wines of the Loire and Bordeaux the classic wine regions of Europe and the undiscovered regions too still fascinate me . Although all of my most recent vineyard visits have been to my two regions of interest , I did spend some time in Tuscany last year , and enjoyed getting to grips again with some of the leading Tuscan estates . When there I tended to focus on those estates turning out what I have long considered to be some of the best examples of Chianti and particular enjoyed my visit to Fontodi among others . Their 100 Sangiovese Flaccianello which seems to embody everything Chianti could and should be even though it is
Home Trade Tastings Six Wines from Leon Stolarski Page 1 of 2 previous 1 2 next Six Wines from Leon Stolarski The final chapter in Eric Asimov's recently published book , How to Love Wine Harper Collins , 2012 is entitled The Greatest Time to Love Wine In this chapter Eric extols the virtues of sheer , elemental , joyous pleasure of wine for wine's sake which seems sensible and describes the time in which we live as the Era of More because m ore people around the world have more access to more great wines from more places than ever before Today's consumers have at their fingertips a previously unparalleled choice when it comes to wine . In part at least , the internet is responsible . With few of the overheads associated with a traditional retail business , the relative ease with which
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