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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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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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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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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From Jeff Siegel @ The Wine Curmudgeon
It’s summer. It’s hot (above 100 in Dallas for about 10 days straight through the beginning of this week). So the Wine Curmudgeon doesn’t want to hear any whining about how real men don’t drink pink. Plus, there is a much welcome screw top.
The El Coto (about $12) [...]
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