…2011. He published one of the earliest newsletters, Robert Finnigan's Private Wine Guide (this was well before Wine Advocate), and was hugely influential among restaurateurs and merchants. I knew Bob for a while in the 1990s, when he was perhaps a little past his prime, but still active, and certainly a pleasant, dignified San Francisco gentleman. He was running the old CMCV society in San Francisco, a marketing group sponsored by the Champagne houses that had established wineries …
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Price: $ 159.99 - Kistler Vineyards is a family-owned California winery located in Northern California's wine producing region of Sonoma County. According to Food and Wine Magazine, their "biannual release of Chardonnay is one of the most sought after by wine enthusiasts" and Food and Wine Magazine's Wine Guide considers their Chardonnays the "Best of the Best" among " Star Producers". One of Califonria's most stellar Chardonnay producers. ( RP)
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The 2013 edition of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald Good Wine Guide introduces a new set of special awards - Wine of Provenance Awards - that single out iconic wines to represent the very best of each state or territory. Choosing just one wine to stand at the pinnacle of its state-based peers is a tough exercise that will no doubt start more arguments than it will settle. Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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…Noir (which recently received a 91 from Ken's Wine Guide) and our 2003 Late Disgorged J Vintage Brut — an intricate, highly nuanced marriage of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier fruit.
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…earned some of the most vaulted accolades in Chilean winemaking, with the 2002 editon of the Chilean Wine Guide hailing the Marques de Casa Concha Cabernet Sauvignon as the "Best Wine of Its Class."
Both the Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast magazines named it their "top wines of 2002" and the accolades have continued from there.
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The John Platter South African Wine Guide 2012 chose Boekenhoutskloof as the winery of the year. Th egrapes were fermented in stainless steel with selected Rhone wine yeast strains. Two thirds of the wine was matured in French oak. The residual sugar is 2.98 grammes per litre, 5.46 grammes per litre total acidity, and pH of 3.76. This wine is sealed with a screwcap.
This wine was imported by Prime Wine Sweden AB.
Colour : Dark red, blue hues
Aroma : Blackberry, raspberry, liqourice, burnt toast, white pepper
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…at where we are. Look at where we were 20 years ago, and look at where we might be in another 20 years — and that is very exciting."
This article written by Gamliel Kronemer, was published in the Kosher Wine Guide 2012 . Gamliel Kronemer writes the kosher wine column ‘ Fruit of the Vine' for the Jewish Week .
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Not sure I quite understand the significance of the coffee pot that Bertus Fourie is shown pouring his wine from on page 312; but it has something to do with being an innovator. This latest edition of the South African wine bible - Platter's South African Wine Guide - has a theme of ‘innovation'. Scattered amongst the pages are short profiles of those the guide views as the "innovators in the South African wine industry".
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…quite the resume including 2 winemaker of the year honors from his fellow countrymen (2004 - Chilean Wine Guide; 2008 - Chilean Food and Wine Writers).
Marques Wines ...
I'll start by (re-)introducing you to the Marques de Casa Concha wines - if you have never bought or tried these wines you truly are missing out on some of the best values from Chile:
2008 Syrah ($19.95) - very raspberry throughout with a good tannin backbone and a sour cherry finish. (*** ½+)
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…Cuvaison won by far. When he read the results in the Northwest Consumer's Wine Guide, he invited us to visit. When he started his own " Togni" winery on Spring Mountain we continued to follow him.. Tthe twenty year old 1991 Cab, not surprisingly, tastes like a well aged Bordeaux with a little more "stuffing as the English say. Let's give it a "91".
1975 Chateau Latour - The first Chateau Latour I tasted was a 1963 for which I paid $ 3. …