Doña Paula is a hot little winery. read the latest press. Man, I wish every winery had this kind of press traction:
Wine of the week: Los Paulos Malbec 2008 from Dallas Journalist Jeff Siegel
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Source: The Wine Curmudgeon
Author:Jeff Siegel
“Call it the malbec conundrum. Argentina’s national grape produces one of the most popular wines [...]
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Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker still want to go home with the Armadillo, and it is hotter than blazes in Texas and America at large in August. Dallas journalist Jeff Siegel features an Italian white -Arancio Grillo 2009 as his Wine of the Week on his popular Wine Curmudgeon blog. Jeff has been [...]
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By Jeff Siegel wine.curmudgeon@att.net
The first rose of the season has been spotted, and it’s a treat — the Mulderbosch (about $11, purchased) from South Africa. Best yet, it costs a couple of dollars less than it did at this time last year.
The rose preliminaries, for those of you who haven’t seen this before: rose may [...]
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Source: Dallas Morning News
Author: Rebecca Murphy
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Cantina Tramin, Sudtirol-Alto Adige, Chardonnay 2008, $12.99-$15.39
Cantina Tramin, established in 1898, is a cooperative winery with 290 grower members and a very talented winemaker, Willi Stürz. This fetching chardonnay shows bright citrus and pineapple fruit with a wisp of stony minerality. Its pure and focused fruit will [...]
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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: Dallas Morning News
By: Rebecca Murphy
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Brennan Vineyards, Texas,
Viognier 2008, $20.49-$24.99
Judging from what’s often in the bottle, viognier is a challenging grape for winemakers. It is a highly aromatic variety, but it needs to be ripe for those peach, honeysuckle and apricot aromas to show. By the time the grape is ripe, the [...]
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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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Source: The Wine Curmudgeon
Author: Jeff Siegel
Much has changed in the wine world over the last 70 years. This wine is not one of them.
Do you want an old-fashioned, “this is the way Italy used to make cheap wine” wine? Then look for the d’Elsa (about $10, sample). My Italian wine expert tells me that Melini [...]
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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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September 16, 2009
By: Rebecca Murphy
Source: Dallas Morning News
Vertikal, Mosel, Piesporter Michelsberg, Special Collection,Riesling Spätlese 2007, $13.99
The Mosel vineyards in Germany provide the most delicate and floral rieslings of all that country’s wine regions. Witness this sublime example: whispers of crushed flowers and white peaches with dusty mineral notes followed by sweet, white peach flavors balanced [...]
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