2018 Herdade de Coelheiros ‘Coelheiros’ Branco (Alentejo): Friendly, delightful fencing bout between Pineapple and Mineral. $15 B+ 2015 Quinta do Quetzal Brut Espumante (Alentejo): Quince, lemon rind, toast, and a hefty dose of well-I-wasn’t-expecting-that! $NA B+ 2017 Quinta do Quetzal ‘Guadalupe’ Winemaker’s Selection Branco (Alentejo): Peaches, perfume, & piquant texture in search of an over-warmed…
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Finally, A Wine Book Roundup That Doesn’t Include My Books!
It’s true! I can actually talk about wine books that aren’t mine, I swear! My pile of wine book media samples has been piling up here at 1WD HQ, not because I haven’t found anything worthy to recommend (quite the opposite, in fact), but because, well, it just didn’t feel prudent to offer critiques of…
Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For September 21, 2020
2018 Symington Quinta da Fonte Souto ‘Florao’ Branco (Alentejo): Lemons, blossoms, flint, and almost pure joy. $NA B+ 2017 Symington Quinta da Fonte Souto Branco (Alentejo): Luxuriant in dress, pithy and bright in soul. $30 A- 2017 Symington Quinta da Fonte Souto Tinto (Alentejo): Poise, power, and plenty of pepper; hello there, gorgeous. $32 A-…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 10 (“The Vineyard Is the Style” – Fort Ross Vineyard Recent Releases)
Add yet another locale to the list of gorgeous places that I’m supposed to be visiting, but the opportunity for which has been heinously denied to me due to the USA’s botched response to the current pandemic: Fort Ross Vineyard on the Sonoma Coast. My experience with FRV, as has been the new normal lately,…
