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The Wine Curmudgeon
http://www.winecurmudgeon.com
Common sense talk about drinking, buying, and enjoying wine
- Added on: Dec 9th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jeff Siegel
- Listed in: Wine
- Tags: wine reviews wine news cheap wine inexpensive wine regional wine $10 wine
Recent Posts
$10 Hall of Fame preview
The Wine Curmudgeon is checking notes, re-tasting wine, and getting ready for the appearance of the eighth annual $10 Wine Hall of Fame. I'll post it on Jan. 4.But there is already one piece of sad news. Osborne Solaz, the Spanish red blend that has ...
White House dinner: A big to do about nothing
The White House state dinner last week was a wine revelation. First, and amazingly, none of the four wines that were served were cabernet sauvignon, merlot or chardonnay. Second, and even more amazing, the fourth wine was a bubbly from Virginia.So ...
Wine of the week: Casteller Brut Rosé NV
The Wine Curmudgeon, as is well known, is a huge fan of Spanish sparkling wine, known as cava. In fact, my enthusiasm for cava, and especially Cristalino, annoys more than a few retailers of my acquaintance.One of them, in fact, insisted that the Cas...
Winebits 106: Wine prices, wine auction, counterfeit wines
· $100 era ending? Decanter, which is easily the best of the Wine Magazines, is noting that "The era of the $100-plus bottle may be over. ..." Its conclusion is based on a report from a key U.S. wine analyst, Silicon Valley Bank. This is a fascinati...
Expensive wine of the month 8: Gaja Barbaresco 2005
One of the anchors of an ever changing wine world is a certain kind of Italian wine, which keeps what's best about Italian style and tradition and combines it with modern winemaking techniques. The Gaja (about $175, sample) is such a wine. But why no...
And the winnner is. ...
Frankly, the Wine Curmudgeon couldn't decide who should win the bottle of Tormaresca Neprica, part of the blog's birthday celebration. So there are two winners -- Ryan, for his inspired poetry, and Emily, who managed to combine wine, being a graduate...
