Antares 2006 ~ Cabernet Sauvignon
Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 Wine Tasting
A fruity bargain basement wine from Chile. Antares is a pleasant medium bodied wine, with very good overall even balanced red fruits notes and a slight tannin finish. For the price you can’t go wrong with this wine. A steal at 2.50€ bottle. Drinking this wine’s done little to help my carbon footprint. It was imported [...]
101 Champagne Cocktails by Kim Haasarud
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
Product Description “Corks popping, frothy liquid flowing, a cold crispy freshness . . . nothing quite so perfectly reflects the notion of ‘the best in life.’ This is a book for celebrants. It’s a book for romantics. It’s a book for the entertainerwho wants a light, fresh concoction that can bring people together to accent the [...]
Wine Week 7
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
Wine Tasting Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcBQtH5gyT0
Foire aux Vins
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
It is that time of year again. Foire aux Vins hits the supermarkets across France. I popped into our local Carrefour supermarket in Narbonne the other day to see what was on offer and I would say there was a lot less shelf space given over to it this time, then during previous Foire aux [...]
Wine Week 6
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
Wine tasting video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8dwcZblQU
Wine Woes in France
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
2008 is set to be a very poor vintage indeed here in France. Dire weather at the start of the year and a lack lustre summer have driven down yields and resulted in less structured grapes (lower sugars and higher tannins). Some growers a month of so ago mouthed off that this year would be [...]
Torremilanos Reserva 1998 ~ Ribera Del Duero
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Wine Tasting
A cracker of a wine from Bodegas Peñalba Lopez (Jardines de Don Diego 4, 5º A 09400 Aranda de Duero Burgos). This wine is produced from Tinto del País grapes in the Castilla y León region of Spain. It is aged for 30 months in oak barrels of from the Allier forest in France. This [...]
Wine Week 5
Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 Wine Tasting
Wine Tasting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw_ILpjtLNE
Domaine Saint Jean 2005 ~ Cotes de Thongue
Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 Wine Tasting
Domaine Saint Jean is a very pleasant fruity little number from Celliers des Terres de France of Nimes. this is a light bodied wine and super cheap, but it packs a lot of punch for the money. Ripe red fruits and a tad of sweet spice hit the palate and stay there. This would make [...]
Distinctive Vintages: Fine French Wines & Spirits by Alain Stella
Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 Wine Tasting
Product Description Fine French winemaking culture is personified in three regions that are as noble as they are prestigious: Cognac, the ancestral birthplace of Hennessy; Champagne, home to legendary houses such as Dom Pérignon, Veuve Clicquot, Moët & Chandon, Krug, Ruinart, and Mercier; and Bordeaux, graced by the magical château Yquem. Unparalleled richness of soil coupled [...]
Educating Peter: How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert by Lettie Teague
Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 Wine Tasting
Product Description Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than “Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?” — great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina — is [...]
Chateau Prieure Canteloup 2005 ~ Cuvee Faustine ~ Premieres Cotes de Bordeaux
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 Wine Tasting
Chateau Prieure Canteloup is a rather bland Bordeaux wine, with no redeeming features. this is a wine that’s best left on the self. © Richard Randall
The Gourmet’s Guide to Cooking with Wine by Alison Boteler
Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2008 Wine Tasting
The Gourmet’s Guide to Cooking with Wine.
Wine Cork Harvest
Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 Wine Tasting
Portuguese land-owner Antonio Ferreira has shown how cork bark is taken off a tree about 80 years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrG09uymTs