25 May 2013

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#SnoothPVA: South African Wine Lunch

By Dezel Quillen of My Vine Spot 3 days ago.
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…2008 Kanonkop Paul Sauer ( SRP $ 42); a Bordeaux-style blend comprised of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 9% Merlot. This wine shows aromas and flavors of ripe red and dark berry fruit, plum, smoke, and anise alongside hints of leather and floral perfume with a full-bodied velvety texture. The 2010 Boekenhoutskloof ‘The Chocolate Block' ( SRP $ 34), a blend of 72% Syrah, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Grenache Noir, 6% Cinsaut and 2% …

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Snooth PVA: Wines of South Africa

By Benito of Benito's Wine Reviews 5 days ago.
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…The wine has complex aromas of green bell pepper, smoke, and leather. It's a deep and dark Bordeaux-style red made with 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, 19% Merlot.

2010 Boekenhoutsklouf Chocolate Block , Swartland/Citrusdal, $ 34: Due to the popularity of this wine, it is allocated in the United States and may be difficult to find. Interesting blend of 69% Syrah, 14% Grenache Noir, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cinsault and 1% …

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Dave McIntyre in the Washington Post: 10 Mid-Atlantic wineries worth exploring

By Carlo De Vito of East Coast Wineries 23 days ago.
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…Culpeper and Warrenton, this newcomer is already producing some intense Bordeaux-style blends.

Delaplane Cellars. This Fauquier County winery sources grapes from prime Northern Virginia growers and makes single-vineyard blends in the fashion of Linden Vineyards.

Virginia, along Chesapeake

Chatham Vineyards . This Eastern Shore winery makes elegant red wines but is best known for its steel-fermented chardonnay, which is nice with oysters.

Maryland…

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Drink Local Wine Comes to Maryland

By Warren of Virginia Wine Time 1 month ago.
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…the 2010 EVOE! was more dark-hued and complex. Like Comus, it is a Bordeaux-style blend. From Elk Run, I enjoyed the Alsatian-styled 2011 Gewurztraminer. Tours were offered, and an added treat was the ability to vote for an upcoming release. Benoit Pineau asked us all to sample four red wine samples and then to vote on a favorite, and these included a Cabernet Franc, a Merlot, a Cabernet Franc ( 75%) and Merlot ( 25%) blend and then a Merlot ( 75%) and Cabernet Franc…

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Walla Walla Wine Word for Dummies: Weekly Wine Word Wednesday

By Catie of Through The Walla Walla Grape Vine™ 1 month ago.
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wineries in 1988 to satisfy labeling requirements since they could not name Bordeaux-style wines a varietal unless it was 75% or more of the grape variety. And of course, most definitely the name ' Bordeaux' was out.

Now let me say that some of you like to "Frenchify" this word up a bit in your pronunciation. Too many times, I hear the term, ' Meritage' with the last syllable, "tage" sounding like that in the word, "taj," as in Taj Mahal…

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Trione Wines

By Benito of Benito's Wine Reviews 3 months ago.
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…Alexander Valley

57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 4% Malbec

14.5% abv.

Nice green tobacco leaf and green bell pepper with some delightful cherry underneath. Very herbal and Bordeaux-style. Tiny bite on the finish indicates that this one could still spend a few years in the cellar and emerge delicious.

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Winemaker of the Week: Giorgio Dalla Cia

By Neil Pendock of Pendock Uncorked 3 months ago.
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Nickname: Camerlengo of Cabernet Style: Plush Bordeaux-style blends of richness and power. Try the 2007 Giorgio 70:20:10 blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. In Papal purple, this is a wine to make a Pope kick a hole in a stained glass window, as Raymond Chandler might have said. Seductively sweet on the [...]

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Eikendal Releases 2010 Vintage Of Bordeaux-Style Flagship

By Media of Winerepublic 3 months ago.
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‘ Classique captures true essence of Eikendal' Eikendal, a prominent Stellenbosch cellar renowned for high quality wines, has released the 2010 vintage of its flagship red - Classique - a Bordeaux-style, oak-matured blend which captures the estate's understated elegance. With its predecessor, Eikendal Classique 2009, streaking ahead of its competition with double trophy glory at the

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Round Up Time

By Warren of Virginia Wine Time 3 months ago.
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Too many wineries and not enough time to write about all of our experiences—this seems to be the ongoing dilemma for us. I will use this post to play catch up on wineries that we have recently visited:

Delaplane Cellars: We always look forward to a tasting here if only to enjoy the gorgeous view from the windows; of course the wines are pretty good too. The 2009 Melange Rouge remains my favorite on the tasting menu; readers may recall that I enjoyed this Bordeaux-style blend the …

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Wine of the Week

By Fredric Koeppel of Bigger Than Your Head 4 months ago.
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…not used are small oak barrels; instead, wines are matured in 1,000 to 2,000-liter casks. The French Bordeaux-style barrique has a 225-liter capacity.

The Angelini Pergola Rosso 2011, Marche, offers a medium ruby-cherry color and beguiling aromas of dried cherries, mulberries, rose petals and graphite. Despite the relative lightness of the color and a smooth, airy texture — there's nothing extracted or ponderous here — the wine feels dense and chewy enough that our yen for …

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