Wine of the week: Barefoot Riesling NV
By: Jeff Siegel from The Wine Curmudgeon
The Wine Curmudgeon has long been ambivalent about Barefoot wines. They seem to occupy the middle ground between Two Buck Chuck, which is usually just cheap, and the $10 wines I like, which are cheap and always worth drinking.
The riesling [...]
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Source: The Wine Curmudgeon
Author: Jeff Siegel
Since it looks like Falesco’s Vitiano, one of the Wine Curmudgeon’s all-time favorite trio of wines, is going to drop out of the $10 Hall of Fame next year because the weak dollar has pushed its price to $12, I thought it only fair to mention another Falesco wine from [...]
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From Jeff Siegal @ The Wine Curmudgeon
Long before Australia was famous for shiraz and high alcohol, or even livestock wines, it made riesling. And it wasn’t riesling that others would necessarily recognize, but a typically Aussie version: Dry, with what can only be described as a not unpleasant petrol aroma, and some lime fruit. An [...]
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Clarksburg was the subject of discussion last week at the Sommelier Journal’s Lodi Terroir Experience. It seems that plenty of great Chenin Blanc has been torn out in Napa, but in the Sacramento Delta region Chenin lives on. Dry Creek Vineyard has been sourcing grapes from the area and Jess Siegel has a write up on [...]
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