Tasting Notes Located in Brouilly wine region, this winery is a part of the Boisset Collection. Where the hillsides and Pierreux come together, where the young plantations sit alongside the older vines, where the grass has, for decades, preserved that fine layer of precious soil over the pink granite – this is the heart of Pierreux wine country. The estate ...
Tasting Notes Invented by Charles Brotte in 1952, the Fiole du Pape tells many tales. For some, its origin comes from a great fire in Châteauneuf-du-Pape where only the cellar and distorted bottles of Châteauneuf-du-Pape survived the raging heat. For others, our ancestral technic consists in twisting our bottles in sand, explaining its sandy texture! Romantic but untrue! La Fiole was born from a competition of local ...
Tasting Notes The history of the d’Arfeuille family, who has lived in the Libourne area since the 18th century, goes hand in hand with that of wine growing along the Right Bank. Chateau Tessendey has belonged to the d’Arfeuille family since 1972, and was overhauled in 2000. Arnaud d’Arfeuille strives to make ‘haute couture’ style wines from just under 8 ...
Tasting Notes In today’s climate of global corporate wine ownership and multi beverage models, Pirramimma has stood the test of time from 1892 to today. Still family owned and run, and largely from the same property founded by AC Johnston over a century ago comprising over 100 hectares of prime McLaren Vale fruit, Pirramimma and the Johnston family are synonymous ...
Tasting Notes Year after year, wine professionals and enthusiasts alike await the Bordeaux drop anxiously. Like Christmas, there is a list involved and a lot of hope hanging on snagging the coveted new arrivals. Price points vary and so do quantities. For myself, I tend to snag a bit of everything as I find that the most helpful way to ...
Tasting Notes In 2005, Craig and Kathryn Hall unveiled a state-of-the-art winery amid the legendary Sacrashe Vineyard in the hills of Rutherford that is dedicated to making single vineyard and limited-production wines. HALL’s estate vineyards encompass more than five hundred acres of classic Bordeaux varietals; Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Sauvignon Blanc. As winegrowers, the Halls have a strong respect for the ...
Tasting Notes 1970 was winding down when our founders, Bill Blosser & Susan Sokol Blosser, pulled their ’68 VW Camper up to an abandoned prune orchard, some 30 miles southwest of Portland, Oregon in the Dundee Hills. These moonstruck kids had little farming or winemaking experience. What they did have, in abundance, was a passion for growing the Pinot Noir ...
Tasting Notes Evesham Wood Winery and Vineyard was founded in 1986 by Russ and Mary Raney. The couple purchased land in the Eola Hills not far from West Salem and planted 12.5 acres to Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer. Their winery was built into a hillside so it had the advantage of being naturally cooled. Raney was known ...
Tasting Notes Known as the "globe trotter" of the Rhone Valley, Domaine Julien Pilon does not disappoint. The young Julien Pilon is located on the right bank of the Rhône Valley, on the Condrieu terroir. Pilon produces dry white wines, vinified and aged in oak with brio, with grape varieties such as Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier. On the most prestigious appellations ...