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The Right Way To Blind Taste Wine

 Mark As Read    

First of all, let's identify the wrong way to blind-taste wine. The wrong way involves taking a sip of some mystery wine, swirling it around in your mouth in a disdainful way, and then saying something like, "Well, Bonneau, of course. The Cel...

Tasting Room 3296 days ago

The No-Napa Guide to California Cabernet

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Everyone knows Napa Valley makes great Cabernet Sauvignon. But now exciting cabs are arriving from the “other” California, like Santa Barbara’s Happy Canyon region and Lake County’s obsidian-strewn hills. Here, a guide to t...

Tasting Room 3298 days ago

This Is What Happens When Ray Isle Talks to a Chef

 Mark As Read    

At the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last year, I sat down for a few minutes one afternoon to chat with my fellow Houstonian Chris Shepherd, the insanely talented cook and owner of Houston's acclaimed Underbelly restaurant and&nb...

Tasting Room 3298 days ago

Sherry: Not Just for Little Old Ladies Anymore

 Mark As Read    

Here’s a multiple choice quiz. Sherry is: a) Sweet, cloying stuff from a screwtap-topped bottle sipped by bored grannies while watching “America’s Top Knitters.” b) Some sort of vaguely appealing, dry-tangy, not-exactly-win...

Tasting Room 3299 days ago

Is a Bottle of Harlan Estate Really Worth $750?

 Mark As Read    

Recently I had the good fortune (apt phrase) to taste through several vintages of Harlan Estate red, which is one of the most sought-after, highly rated and, yes, expensive wines from Napa Valley. A red blend that primarily Cabernet Sauvignon, it ...

Tasting Room 3302 days ago

5 Great Scotches That Don't Cost $628,000 a Bottle

 Mark As Read    

Thank you, Guinness. Not the beer—the Guinness Book of World Records folks, who have finally confirmed that yes, indeed, the 6-liter, Lalique-decanter-enclosed bottle of Macallan that sold last year for $628,000 is, witho...

Tasting Room 3311 days ago

5 White Lies about Chardonnay, Plus 25 Excellent Bottles to Try

 Mark As Read    

No wine has ever been so unfairly maligned as Chardonnay. F&W’s Ray Isle debunks the myths and extols the magnificence of great bottlings at every price and in every style. Myth: All California Chardonnay Is Big & Buttery Once upon a...

Tasting Room 3318 days ago

Italy's Philosopher-Genius of Wine

 Mark As Read    

Italy’s Josko Gravner is the only winemaker I’ve met who keeps a simple wooden chair in his cellar just so he can sit down there and think about his wine. Is he making it the right way? Should he have a different approach? Is it truly ...

Tasting Room 3331 days ago

5 Pink Sparkling Wines for Valentine's Day

 Mark As Read    

There are many things you could drink for Valentine’s Day, depending on the nature of your relationship: a snazzy cocktail at a dark bar (hot date), a cold Bud in front of the TV (married for 40 years), milk (you’re 8 years old and liv...

Tasting Room 3331 days ago

Ray Isle's Ultimate Super Bowl Sunday Beverage Plan

 Mark As Read    

Having people over? Planning to serve them something besides water? If you want them to actually stay for the game, that's an excellent idea. I headed over to the Today Show recently with some punch bowls and six-packs (literally) to share so...

Tasting Room 3344 days ago

Why Would Anyone Drink Old Prosecco?

 Mark As Read    

Of all the wines in the world, the last one that most people would think might be improved by aging over time in a cellar is probably Prosecco (well, actually, Myx Fusions Moscato—the fruit-infused fizz that Nicki Minaj promotes—probab...

Tasting Room 3354 days ago

7 Top Sparkling Wines of 2014

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For everyone who has NOT bought their bubbles for New Year’s yet, take note: It is not too late! And to help out in that endeavor, here are my favorite Champagnes and sparkling wines from the last year of tasting. Any of them would make an e...

Tasting Room 3377 days ago

What the Heck Do Hobbits Drink, Anyway?

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With the opening of the final chapter in the Hobbit trilogy of films, it seems natural to wonder what hobbits drink—I mean, when they aren’t haring off on adventures with roving troops of dwarves, crawling atop mounds of treasure guard...

Tasting Room 3387 days ago

9 of the Year's Best Red Wine Values

 Mark As Read    

For holiday entertaining, buy your wines by the case—most stores offer a 10 percent or more discount. (And, unlike eggnog, say, bottles that you don’t get around to using for the holidays will still be good for months or potentially ye...

Tasting Room 3389 days ago

9 Great White Wine Values for the Holidays

 Mark As Read    

When it comes to wine, the best plan for holiday entertaining is to buy it by the case. Wine stores typically offer a 10 percent discount—sometimes more—when you buy 12 bottles (some stores also allow you to mix and match, so you don&r...

Tasting Room 3396 days ago

7 of New Zealand's Best Sauvignon Blancs

 Mark As Read    

A recent trip to New Zealand gave me to opportunity to attend the Air New Zealand Wine Awards. More than 1,300 wines are entered each year, making it easily the biggest wine competition in New Zealand (and likely the longest-lived—it’s...

Tasting Room 3402 days ago

Sommeliers' Top Pizza Wines for the Night Before Thanksgiving

 Mark As Read    

Thanksgiving is racing towards us as fast as a ticked-off wild turkey (I should know: I’ve been attacked by one) which will mean innumerable blog posts about what wines go best with the classic roasted bird. But, what about the night be...

Tasting Room 3423 days ago

Spain's Greatest Cabernet

 Mark As Read    

When people think of Spain's wines, they tend to think of crisp Albariños from Galicia, Tempranillo-driven reds from Rioja and Ribera del Duero, and powerful cuvees from the Priorat, where Grenache is the dominant grape. Cabernet Sauvignon,...

Tasting Room 3429 days ago

How Not to Get Ripped Off on a Restaurant Wine List

 Mark As Read    

File this under “mistakes you do not want to make, ever.” According to a story broken by nj.com, recently a customer at Bobby Flay Steak at the Borgata in Atlantic City ordered what he thought was a $37.50 bottle of wine, only to find ...

Tasting Room 3431 days ago

The 7 Most Surprising Smells You Can Find in Wine

 Mark As Read    

Describing what a wine tastes like with words is a little like trying to describe the ocean to someone who's never left the cornfields of Iowa, but these are the challenges we wine writers face. In his astoundingly beautiful new book, Th...

Tasting Room 3432 days ago

Why Do These Cities Hate Champagne?

 Mark As Read    

Foursquare, the recently-rejiggered local search app, can provide a wealth of handy info—for instance, I recently asked the company’s data gurus what cities in the US mention Champagne the most when using the app. The results weren&rsq...

Tasting Room 3439 days ago

Why Drink Beaujolais Nouveau When you Could Drink These?

 Mark As Read    

It’s mid-October, which means that soon it will be November, and that means that in a month or so we’re going to start seeing ads, again, just like every year, for Beaujolais Nouveau. And you know what? Don’t bother. Skip it. Bea...

Tasting Room 3449 days ago

5 Great Wines that Don't Cost $2,800 a Glass

 Mark As Read    

In case you were wondering what insanely rich wine lovers like to do with their spare buckets of cash, the answer was provided by a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong last week: Spend $1,600,000 on 114 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Con...

Tasting Room 3452 days ago

5 High-End, Superstar Wines You Can Always Find

 Mark As Read    

We tend to think of the best wines in the world as rarities—in fact, the current term for super-sought-after, once-in-a-lifetime bottles amidst the sommelier crowd is “unicorn wines.” But the truth is that there are some great wi...

Tasting Room 3456 days ago

5 Wines From a South African Wine Star

 Mark As Read    

“If there’s actually a time machine that works, it’s wine.” That’s a quote from Eben Sadie, arguably South Africa’s brightest young winemaking talent, and certainly one of its most quotable. The occasion was a v...

Tasting Room 3457 days ago

5 Perfect Steak Wines

 Mark As Read    

Summer is done, grilling season is over, life is meaningless, and really, why not just eat lettuce from now on? That was how I was feeling recently, confronted with the sudden awareness of shrinking daylight hours and the first hints of cool weath...

Tasting Room 3458 days ago

3 Luxe Cognacs That Are Worthy of Their Price Tags

 Mark As Read    

As with many luxury products, there’s Cognac and then, sir, there is Cognac. The Tesseron family has been in the Cognac business for over a hundred years, but they’ve stayed under the radar in the past, as their focus has been supplyin...

Tasting Room 3467 days ago

4 Spectacular Sauvignon Blancs from Austria

 Mark As Read    

Winemaker Armin Tement of Austria passed through New York the other day, which gave me a chance to taste some of the most distinctive Sauvignon Blancs being made anywhere in the world (truly). Weingut Tement is located in southern Steiermark (Styr...

Tasting Room 3479 days ago

Light Reds to Fight Summer Blues

 Mark As Read    

Summertime, you know, it’s all about the white wines. Well, and the rosé wines. And the sparkling wines. But what is there for people who get the heebie-jeebies when they’re presented with a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc? Who th...

Tasting Room 3514 days ago

5 Value White Wines for Summer

 Mark As Read    

What goes best with…? That’s the baseline wine-pairing question, and every wine expert worth his or her Riedel decanter has an answer for it. But realistically—and especially during the summer—there are plenty of times whe...

Tasting Room 3540 days ago

5 Ways to Celebrate the Summer of Riesling

 Mark As Read    

Yes: The Summer of Riesling has officially started. So what does that mean for you? In case you missed the first six iterations of this restaurant-centric lovefest for all things Riesling, what happens is that, beginning June 21, a plethora of res...

Tasting Room 3549 days ago

5 Splurge-Worthy Wines for Parents of Recent Grads

 Mark As Read    

An appealingly cynical English friend in the wine business once told me, “You see, what you do is that when your child is born, you purchase a case of vintage port from that year. Then, when the child finally graduates from college, you send...

Tasting Room 3570 days ago

Wines for Every Burger, from Veggie to Lamb

 Mark As Read    

We Americans, we do like our beef. The average citizen of the US of A eats somewhere around 70 pounds of beef per year. Evidently we, as a people, cannot resist the urge to slap round patties of ground cow flesh onto hot metal and then devour the ...

Tasting Room 3577 days ago

5 Affordable Grill-Friendly Red Wines

 Mark As Read    

Grilling season is here—the weather’s warm, the charcoal is available, and with any luck you’ve delegated some nearby child to scrub off all of last year’s grilled-on gunk with a handy wire brush. One hitch: according to th...

Tasting Room 3584 days ago

How to be a Wine Super-Sleuth

 Mark As Read    

Want to taste like a wine pro? Here are the five questions you should ask yourself while you sniff and sip, plus three wines that will give you a mini lesson in acid, tannin and aroma. Acidity: Does the wine make you pucker? If yes, it's high in a...

Tasting Room 3591 days ago

Everything's Coming Up Rosés

 Mark As Read    

There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when you couldn't give away a bottle of dry French rosé wine in the US. The zillions of bottles of White Zinfandel on store shelves had somehow worked a kind of evil spell on wine buyers' minds...

Tasting Room 3605 days ago

Why You Should Drink Portuguese Wine

 Mark As Read    

What do Arinto, Baga, Castelão, Alfrocheiro, Rabigato, Códega do Larinho and Esgana Cão (which, rather evocatively, translates as "dog strangler") all have in common? They're all Portuguese grape varieties, which means they ar...

Tasting Room 3619 days ago

5 Hoppy Beers to Try Now

 Mark As Read    

Every once in a while, gazing out at the world of beer, it's hard not to throw one's hands up in the air and cry, "Good gracious, what wild fantasies these madmen have wrought!" How, for instance, is one supposed to choose between a beer made with...

Tasting Room 3633 days ago

Spain Isn't Drinking Its Wine, So You Should

 Mark As Read    

Take that, Italy and France. With the 2013 vintage, Spain stomped on its grape-growing European counterparts to become the biggest wine producer in the world. According to the Spanish government, Spain produced roughly 6.7 billion bottles of wine ...

Tasting Room 3640 days ago

5 Proseccos to Drink Now

 Mark As Read    

The news that Prosecco outsold Champagne—307 million bottles worldwide compared with 304 million—may flabbergast some fizz fans, but it’s really no surprise. Prosecco is as hot as a cold, sparkling white wine can be, with sales i...

Tasting Room 3647 days ago

If You Can't Afford Chianti's Ultra-High-End New Designation, Drink These Bottles

 Mark As Read    

News that the powers that be in Tuscany's Chianti Classico region have created a new, super-duper designation for the region's wines—Chianti Classico "Gran Selezione"—got me thinking. I've got no problem at all with a special category ...

Tasting Room 3654 days ago

5 Napa Valley Wines That Cost Way Less Than a House

 Mark As Read    

I had the good fortune to be in California for Premiere Napa Valley, a glitzy shindig for which the valley's top wineries produce special, one-off cuvées to help fund Napa Valley Vintners (the local trade association). Made in small quantit...

Tasting Room 3661 days ago

Five Exceptional New Australian Reds

 Mark As Read    

Australia is arguably the world's most dynamic wine region right now, says F&W's Ray Isle, who spent weeks hopping between the Yarra and Barossa regions and found a new Down Under vision. Here five exceptional new Australian red wines to try n...

Tasting Room 3698 days ago

Cabernet Is King

 Mark As Read    

Thank you, University of Adelaide. It turns out that a researcher there, Professor Kym Anderson, has been engaged in a lengthy project analyzing the world's grape-growing regions and has determined—among many, many other things—that Ca...

Tasting Room 3710 days ago

Wines with Wings

 Mark As Read    

Bird-booze lovers take note: Recent news has revealed that Napa Valley producer Duckhorn Vineyards has gotten in a snit and is suing the makers of Duck Dynasty’s Duck Commander wines. This, of course, casts a dark and ominous pall over what,...

Tasting Room 3717 days ago

How to Tell if Wine is Corked, Oxidized or Cooked

 Mark As Read    

Watch out for flaws. If a wine doesn't taste good, there might actually be a problem with it. CORKED A natural compound called TCA can taint corks, making wine smell like wet newspaper or a moldy basement. OXIDIZED Faulty corks let too much oxygen...

Tasting Room 3718 days ago

Classic California Pinot Noirs

 Mark As Read    

These wines are California Pinot Noir at its most expressive and complex. Sourced from among the state's greatest Pinot vineyards—Morning Dew Ranch in Anderson Valley, Hirsch on the far Sonoma Coast, Hanzell's historic property on Sonoma Mou...

Tasting Room 3730 days ago

5 Essential California Pinot Noirs

 Mark As Read    

To get a sense of why people fall in love with Pinot Noir, it's worth spending a little more money. The following wines, made by some of the top winemakers in the state, are all great examples of regional terroir—the distinctive character th...

Tasting Room 3731 days ago

5 Super Value California Pinot Noirs

 Mark As Read    

The best inexpensive Pinot Noirs may not have the nuanced aromas and terroir expression of higher-end bottlings, but they can still offer impressively bright fruit and an elegant texture. Under $15, Pinot Noirs tend to be made with blends of grape...

Tasting Room 3733 days ago

Understanding Pinot Noir from the Ground Up

 Mark As Read    

There's a reason F&W's readers love Pinot Noir so much: At its best, it's transcendent. F&W's Ray Isle sits down with California wine legend Burt Williams to explore Pinot's allure and offer tips on getting a terrific bottle. The one wine ...

Tasting Room 3743 days ago
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