Time to Stock Up on Champagne According to the New York Times wine critic, Eric Asimov, there are now some pretty good Champagnes in the $30 to $40 range. A panel of experts, including Asimov, set up blind tasting of 20 Champagnes under $40 and found some seriously good wine. This is quite a change [...]
Champagne The holiday rush, those weeks from November to New Year’s Eve, is when the Champagne houses reap most of their annual profits. Americans are the second-largest drinkers of Champagne – outside France. Shipments of the bubbly to the United States plummeted 41.2 % this year – yet sales of cheaper sparkling wines – typically [...]
2007 Châteauneuf-du-Pape The hottest wine going into 2010. Robert Parker said this is the best vintage since 1998. “This is the greatest vintage I’ve ever tasted in the southern Rhone.”said Parker, at the CIA tasting in St. Helena. “The $12 and $15 wines from the Rhone from ’07 were also the best I’ve ever tasted. [...]
Champagne Grapes Will Rot as Producers Protect Prices By Adam Sage – TimesOnline Hopes of a glut of cheap champagne are set to be dashed when vineyards meet next week to agree on a big cut in production to prop up prices. With sales falling, producers may be ordered to leave up to half their [...]
Muscadet Summertime and the livin’ is easy. It doesn’t matter if you live near the ocean, a lake, a cool river or a swimming pool, when the weather heats up we all enjoy being by the water. A very dry, zesty white wine from France, Muscadet is perfect for sipping on a hot summer day. [...]
Louis Latour Pouilly-Vinzelles en Paradis 2006 A great summer wine made of Chardonnay grapes from the same limestone hills in Burgundy as it’s pricier cousin, Pouilly Fuisse. Aromas of pear and spice. Full flavors of apple compote and poached pear. Medium body and balanced with a slight mineral finish. Perfect with seared scallops or roast [...]
Hail Storms and Grapes Vineyards in parts of the Saint-Emilion and Entre-Deux-Mers regions lost 100 per cent of their new growth in storms on Monday and Wednesday. Elsewhere, including parts of Médoc and Graves, up to 80 per cent of the 2009 harvest is feared to have been lost. “Hail attacks are an occasional problem [...]
Wine Terrorism France is in the throes of a wine crisis. After centuries of world domination, demand for its wines is diminishing because of declining wine-drinking at home and through losing ground to new wine-producing nations abroad. A cruel irony is inherent in France’s polarised industry today. While wine buffs can’t get enough of the [...]
Riesling “Les Princes Abbes” Domaines Schlumberger 2005 Light yellow color with a hint of green. Dry, floral aromas of honey blossom on the nose. Concentrated peach, citrus and mineral flavors with hints of dried spice and honey. A light to medium-bodied wine, nicely balanced with a clean, dry finish. At 12.5%, a great choice for [...]
Red Wine The “French paradox”— is the notion that the French have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet of cheese, chocolate, and wine. When a description of this paradox was aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Nov. 17, 1991, it was proposed that because the French drank more red [...]
