“…and even if he’s a lazy man, and the Dude was certainly that – quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County… which would place him high in the runnin’ for laziest worldwide…”

The Stranger, from The Big Lebowski

Yes, this is a lazy post. But while it certainly qualifies for being labeled as lazy, some interesting insights can be gleaned from it so I’d challenge those who’d also try it qualify it as lacking any value. Note that I didn’t say it delivers a lot of value, just that it doesn’t lack for any value. Aw, f*ck, why am I doing this to myself again? Just deal with it, I need a break after putting together the last top ten list (which was a butt-load of work).

What am I blathering about? I’ll tell you what I’m blathering about, man! I’m gonna give you another annual top ten list – this time, it’s the top ten most popular 1WD articles of the year.

In the 2010 incarnation of this list, I mused that a) 1WD readers love wine topic controversy, and b) I would no longer be able to use the 2010 method of determining the most popular articles (counting comments) again. And both pieces of dime-store philosophizing insight proved to be true in 2011. Controversy in the wine world was, once again, no stranger to these virtual pages, and it got your collective wine geek blood pumping – particularly when it came to the uber-geeky topics of wine yeasts, how wine critics rate (or don’t rate!) the wines that they taste, and the always-religious-level-debate-inducing debate around Biodynamics.

In terms of measuring engagement, the days of folks dropping in with a quick comment to say “nice job” are now far behind us; those thumbs up are now given as re-tweets and/or Facebook “Likes” (which I think we should also be doing for wines themselves, but that’s another story entirely…). So instead of counting comments as in previous years, I opted to have PostRank.com report back what it thought were the most engaging 1WD articles of the year, since their calculation appears to take into account comments and social media reach through sharing on platforms such as twitter. It’s NOT perfect, as it misses key metrics such as video views (which surely would have put my video interviews with rocker Les Claypool and social media maven Gary Vaynerchuk at the top of the list), and because of a three-way tie at the #9 spot, there are actually 12 posts listed and not 10; but it’s got more positives than negatives so let’s go with it.

I’ve excluded giveaways requiring comments for reasons that should be obvious (if they’re not, just keep drinking!). And as in previous years, the list doesn’t really include the articles I consider my personal faves from 2011 – but the list isn’t about me, it’s about you. And for those just recently tuning into 1WD, this is as good a way as any to catch up on the content that stirred the most discussion during the past twelve months.

And so… here they are…!

10) The First – And Last – 160 Days: What Does Gary Vaynerchuk’s Exit Mean For The Wine World?

9) Three-way tie:

• 1WineDude Radio Episode 5: Stu Smith’s Quest to Debunk Biodynamics
• Why Every Wine Lover Should Have A Wine Blog
• Being Able To Describe A Wine Does NOT Make You Awesome

8) Are Wine Critics “Wasting” Points On A Wine’s Color?

7) Hey Winemakers In Emerging Wine Regions: Stop Selling A Gazillion Varietal Wines Already!

6) Wake Up, Wine People: Boomers Won’t Be Buying Your Wine Forever

5) Is There A New Pecking Order For Cult Napa Cabs? (Records Are Busted At Premiere Napa Valley 2011)

4) The Biodynamics Debate: The Aftermath

3) The Lazy Abuse of Wine Scores: A Glimpse Into One Producer’s Market Struggles (and a Glimmer of Hope)

2) Do You Care About Wine Yeasts? (Crowd-Sourcing Wine Learning)

And the most-engaged 1WD article of the year (according to PostRank.com, anyway)…

1) Am I Alone In Thinking That Brett Is A Flaw?

Here’s to another year of YOU and YOUR engagement making 1WD what it is!

Cheers!

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The “competition” (such as it is, though it really isn’t such) was once again fierce, due to the volume of wines I tried in 2011 (up again from 2010 – considerably) and in the high level of quality of many of the wines to which I had the good fortune of being exposed through hundreds of samples, dozens of visits, blah-blah-blah.

The average price tag of the wines in this year’s list is once again on the high side (around $69), but there’s a price to be paid in creating a product that stirs the emotions, I suppose – the good news is that while several *very* expensive bottles are on the list, some of the best can be had for a relatively-reasonable $35-$40 per bottle.

For those of you who are new all of this and at this point are wondering what the hell I’m raving on about:

• I compile this list annually. It is NOT intended to be a “best of” or “highest rating” or “circle jerk” list (no mater what the PR folks do with it!).
• It is intended to be a list of arbitrarily-chosen wines that stood out, to me, as being particularly interesting for any number of reasons, not least of which are quality and complexity, and to call attention to those wines that I found most compelling this year – wines that make me want tot tackle the mountain of samples in my basement in search of another that might be somewhat like it. Actually, isn’t that how most non-chemical addictions start? Ah, whatever…
• These are not wines released in 2011 (though I try to favor recent releases so that you have a chance of actually trying the wines in this list), they are wines that I tasted in 2011.  Not all the wines I tasted in 2011 qualified – the wines have to be at least somewhat available so that you have a shot at trying them.
• Also, the list of finalists included some wines tasted in late December 2010 (since this list is compiled in its final form in mid-December).

This year, I’m happy to also announce that the list comes complete with a new badge,  created by Mofunsun Enterprises, LLC (a.k.a. design rock-star Jeffrey Sun) who also designed the badges I use each week in my wine reviews (see above). Producers included in the list below are free to use the MIW badge in any way that they see fit, so long as it is not modified (those interested can contact me for details).

This is, by far, the most difficult content for me to compile each year. No pressure, but if you don’t enjoy it then bah-humbug, you can go sit on an inappropriate wine-stopper. As in previous years, you will find some surprises in this list.I invite you to react, comment, and have fun, so long as you agree to take it for what it really is: a celebration of wine’s pleasure and subjectivity.

Enjoy!…

10) 2009 Afros Loureiro (Vinho Verde)
Price: about $18 (€13)
Rating: B+
Why it made the list: It’s about f*cking time that Vinho Verde got this serious. Also – your best, most elegant seafood dish just met its soul-mate.

Now this wine… this is the stuff I’d had in mind when I visited Portugal and wondered if Vinho Verde could get as serious as its Spanish neighbors when it came to Loureiro. It’s a wine that is ready to play with the big boys, and could give goose bumps to those who are on the hunt for vino that does not taste at all like a heavily oaked creamsicle Chardonnay. An elegant and serious wine, one that had me wondering if it wouldn’t benefit from a couple of years in bottle to take the edge off the acidity; and did I mention the part about being killer with seafood? Like you just got personally invited to the Citrus & Tropical Fruit Ball, elegant dinner dress included. Tasted at the winery.

9) 2008 Château d’Esclans “Garrus” (Côtes de Provence)
Price: $90
Rating: A-
Why it made the list: When’s the last time you had a rosé that was complex and demanding that wasn’t a red-headed, walking, talking human?

It’s self-billed as the world’s “best” rosé wine, and unfortunately has “garish” (get it? awww, c’mon, throw me a bone here!) price-point to match.  Having said that, after road-testing a sample of this wine I concluded that you’d be hard-pressed to match the complexity and elegance of the Garrus among its rosy competition.  It’s a demanding wine, with red berry fruits and floral notes sitting atop a firm structure that is clearly built for aging, and most people (even wine geeks) don’t have much rosé-aging experience (I once aged a bottle of Napa white zinfandel… the results were… uhmm… not great). Whether or not you consider it the best rosé, chances are good that you’ll find it one of the most memorable wines that you ever try. Tasted as a sample, on date night, because – let’s just go right ahead and say it – rosé seriously ups your chances of getting laid.

8) 2007 Gillmore Cabernet Franc Old Vines (Loncomilla)
Price: around $35
Rating: B+
Why it made the list: Because being made in small quantities from old vine, dry-farmed vines by a small, by independent producer in a land where enormous producers rule, from a grape that isn’t well-associated with the region is one of the best underdog stories since the Miracle On Ice.

Dry-farmed on old País roots, this dark beast has an incredible structure, and is one of the most complete – and most interesting (duh!) – Cab Franc wines I’ve had in a years. The dark fruits are there, concentrated but not at the expense of added complexity like dried herbs and spices. Somebody please, please, pretty please tell CA to make CF wine like this – on second thought, cancel that, because they would cost something like $125. Gillmore is part of MOVI, the intrepid group of independent vintners who are rapidly gaining notoriety (and publicity) for their David-and-Goliath story of trying to remain viable in a land where gigantic producers are the norm. Their slingshot? The great quality and uniqueness of wine like this one. Tasted at the home of MOVI mastermind Derek Mossman in Santiago (on my birthday, no less!).

7) 2008 Giant Steps Chardonnay Sexton Vineyard (Yarra Valley)
Price: $35
Rating: A-
Why it made the list: Drinks like it costs twice the price. By the way, Australian wine isn’t down for the count just yet, people.

The short-version review of this wine is that it’s a minor triumph. One of the best Chards I tasted all year, and instead of being from Napa, Sonoma, Burgundy… it’s from Yarra. Those who want to debate Yarra’s Chard-producing merits should probably just STFU and drink this already. Interestingly, the folks down undah continue to impress and surprise with the upward quality trajectory of their white wines (let’s not forget that an Aussie white also came in at #7 in last year’s list). Tasted as a mind-blowingly good sample at Chateau Dude (my home, just outside of Philly).

6) 2002 Achaval-Ferrer Quimera (Mendoza)
Price: $40
Rating: A-
Why it made the list: Nearly as sublimely good as their sublimely good $100 offerings, just sixty bones cheaper.

There’s not much missing in this overachieving, savory, floral, fruity, spicy, gorgeous, stunningly age-worthy Malbec blend. In fact, the only marked differences I found between this wine and Achaval-Ferrer’s $100 stunners like Finca Mirador when I visited their facility near Mendoza was the relative amount of beauty and complexity offered between the wines (well, that and sixty bucks). Quimera is a bona fide, quintessential diamond-in-the-rough “second wine” in the greatest sense of the term, and the 2002 version is capable of aging gracefully along with its pricier big brothers. Tasted at Achaval-Ferrer in Mendoza.

5) Ramos Pinto Quinta do Bom Retiro 20 Year Tawny Port (Porto)
Price: $55
Rating: A-
Why it made the list: It’s just as complex as you’d imagine when blending that many different points in history.

I love this wine. That’s really the story for me; I tasted it when I visited Ramos Pinto with Vini Portugal in December of 2010, and it reset the bar for me in terms of 20 year Tawny Port. It deftly combines the best accessible caramel elements of 10 Tawny with the nutty, slightly-Sherried notes of great 30 year Tawny Ports. I’m not sure why the RP induces more goose bumps in me than, say, the fantastic Sandeman 40 Year Tawny. Maybe it’s the fact their working with fruit that comes from some of the oldest vineyards in all of the Douro, itself the oldest demarcated wine-producing region in the world. But when you fall in love, it’s usually best not to ask too many questions so I’ll just stop there… Tasted at RP’s historic Douro property.

4) 2008 Continuum Red (Napa Valley)
Price: $150
Rating: A
Why it made the list: Actually worth $150.

Complex wine from a complex man (Time Mondavi) with a deep (to put it mildly) sense of history and fate.  Ripe, dark and with a spice profile more complex than a Lewis Carroll logic puzzle. But the real pleasure is in how well the tannin, fruit, and acid “scaffolding” is put together – firm, gripping and artistic; it’s like taking in the view of an Eiffel bridge, and it will carry the wine for many years of aging (if you can wait for it). This wine is a bit particular, in that serving it at the wrong temperature or without proper decanting will make it feel like a disjointed monster – but get the serving equation right and – whoooooo, boooy – you’re in for a ride. You might not want to fork out the kind of coin needed to procure this wine, but if anyone suggests that you turn down a glass if someone else is buying, you have my permission to slap them. The scary-awesome part? Continuum’s best is probably still ahead of it – future releases will include more fruit from Tim’s Pritchard Hill estate, and could be even better than the already-special 2008 (I’m looking forward to putting that prediction to the test, by the way). Tasted multiple times (as sample at the CIA in Napa, as a sample at home, and at Continuum’s Pritchard Hill property).

3) 2008 Cobb “Diane Cobb: Coastlands Vineyard” Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast)
Price: $78
Rating: A-
Why it made the list: Wine maker Ross Cobb seems to have worked for everybody making great Pinot in the Sonoma Coast region – this wine shows he was paying gnat’s-ass-level detailed attention to all of it.

Winemaker Ross Cobb seems to know just about everybody in the Sonoma Coast area wine scene, probably because he’s worked for or with just about everybody in the Sonoma Coast area wine scene. His youthful appearance belies the accumulation of all of that wine knowledge and experience, which he puts on full display in just about every bottle of the small production that Cobb Wines releases each year. Only 160 cases were made of this gorgeous Pinot, from fruit that comes from a nursery block of 20+ varieties of PN vines planted by Diane Cobb with the help of UC Davis in the late `80s, many of which are still growing on their own native roots. The first thing you’ll notice about this wine is it’s overly-expressive red berry fruitiness, kind of like a evening gown that’s a little over the top, almost distracting. Things quickly settle down, though, and the underlying complexity of the wine, and its true beauty, starts to come through: peppery spice, citrus pith, smoky incense, leather and even a little chocolate. It feels sexy but also restrained – like a well-produced love scene between big-name actors in an Oscar-contending flick. Just the thing for a temporary respite from screaming-toddler-city (I’m a resident). Tasted as a sample on date night, and during the inaugural West of West festival in Sonoma.

2) 1999 Royal Tokaji Mezes Maly 6 Puttonyos (Tokaji)
Price: $150
Rating: A
Why it made the list: I’m not sure if I believe in heaven, but I’m damn sure if there is such a place they serve this stuff there.

Honey, quince, white tea, orange, sultana… and a little slice of heaven. Tasted with a group of like-minded, serious (!) wine geeks during the Wine Writers Symposium at Meadowood in Napa earlier this year. Turns out that Hugh Johnson knows a hell of a lot more about wine than how to write about it – he also knows how to ensure that the “first growth” product churned out by the Hungarian winemaking outfit that he co-founded is just as transcendent as the prose he churned out in his finest tome. This is the kind of wine that can – and pretty much did – make a room full of possibly-jaded-but-still-amicable-and-funloving wine writers (Alder Yarrow, Jim Gordon, John Bonne, Ben Weinberg, Blake Gray, lil’ ol’ me…) practically lose their sh*t; it’s that kind of good. Tasted at – hell, I just told you where I tasted it!

1) 2008 De Martino “Limávida” Single Vineyard Old Bush Vines (Maule)
Price: $40
Rating: A
Why it made the list: It’s the kind of terroir expression that everybody talks about in their press releases, except here it’s actually not marketing bullsh*t but is totally for real (and only $40).

A true field blend, in that the vines, planted around 1945, are not organized by variety and De Martino isn’t sure what some of the grapes are, but they are sure that it’s mostly (70%) Malbec. Yes, Malbec from Chile, not from Argentina.  And it’s made by a true visionary (and head-banging metal music lover, Marcelo Retamal). And it’s not even his favorite wine among those that he makes.  But… it’s a truly stunning representation of place – an actual, honest-to-goodness achievement of terroir – at a fraction of the cost of what that kind of wine will normally run you. The Limávida starts with a ton of spices, a slight earthiness, and it just gets more complex from there.  Mexican cocoa, mint, stone, dark plummy fruit so densely concentrated it’s like looking into the eyes of some wise old sage that you met on the street, and he whispers something odd and profound like “god gave you the nod… now you understand the mystery” and then your mind gets totally blown. The finish is structured, long and savory, and the wine changes on you at a moment’s notice, alternatively showing you its full potential and then shutting down completely for several minutes at a time (attention impatient tasters: you will not “get” this wine).  It will easily age for a decade, and if you’re patient when tasting it you may just be rewarded with one of the most exotic but fulfilling red wine experiences you’d ever hope to encounter in this price range. Tasted at De Martino’s Isla De Maipo estate.

And…. that is that!

Cheers!

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At least, I loved the recent move by Governor Tom Corbett to appoint Joseph “Skip” Brion (that’s his real nickname, by the way) the new PLCB Chairman, since both Corbett and Brion appear to be in favor of privatizing the state Commonwealth’s monopoly alcohol sales system – and they’re supporting House Bill eleven (HB11) which seeks to amend the existing Liquor Code “providing for the privatization of sales of wine and spirits in this Commonwealth through abolition of the State Liquor Stores.”

But as much as I’d love to see privatization take hold and the free market rein when it comes to alcohol sales in my home state Commonwealth, it’s become clear to me that, technically speaking, HB11 is actually not in the best interests of PA’s wine-consuming public; I would describe HB11 as Bull Honkey. As in, a big, stinking, steaming load of Bull Honkey.

Why?  Two reasons, my vino-loving friends, neither of which portends any favorable outcomes from HB11 when it comes to actually letting the free market into the ring of PA’s liquor sales and distribution…

Reason the first: Direct shipping? What direct shipping?

HB11 won’t do a bull honkey’s worth of diddly-squat when it comes to allowing PA resients to buy the wine they want, when they want it, and have it sent to their homes so that it doesn’t languish in some overheated PLCB storage area somewhere before they have a chance to enjoy it.  As anti-PLCB blogger Lew Bryson put it on his blog (emphasis is original):

“If it [ HB11 ] passes as is, Pennsylvanians are still forbidden by law to bring home a bottle of wine from New Jersey (or Maryland, or Delaware, or New York…). I’ve been assured directly by Representative Turzai that the police will no longer enforce this, but that’s not good enough. You’re a legislator; don’t tell me the police won’t enforce a despicably un-American law; change the law.”

Exactly, Lew.  Why agree in principal not to enforce a law that stays on the books? That makes no sense, and any reasonable person would probably consider that as not really being above-board; it might be a royal pain in the bull honkey organ, but let’s just change the law to reflect reality and do the difficult work of cleaning up the bull honkey instead of sweeping its smelly action under the carpet.

Reason the second: Licenses? Sure, if you’re a big (BIG) business

The big issue with the liquor store licenses in HB11 is that theren’t nearly enough of them – the bill calls for only about 1250 of the suckers.  That doesn’t sound too bad on paper, but on the street it will seriously limit the amount of stores throughout PA’s 46K some-odd square miles.

What’s worse, and what firmly lodges HB11 into bull honkey territory, is that just over half of the licenses (750 of the 1250 Class A) would apparently have to go to stores that are over 15,000 square feet in size.  Here are snippets from the text of Subarticle C:

“…The department shall be authorized to issue 1,250 wine and spirits retail licenses to successful bidders in the retail license auction process… Class A licenses shall authorize the operation of a retail wine and spirits store in a specific retail zone in an establishment that exceeds 15,000 square feet of retail floor space…”

What… the… F*CK?!??

We are not talking about electrical plants or hospitals here, folks, we are talking about stores that sell booze. Why the government would have to effectively mandate store size is beyond me… or is it?… Actually, when taken with the small overall number of licenses in the bill, HB11 makes total sense if your goal is to squeeze out smaller, independent liquor stores in PA in favor of big chains – and that, my friends, is bull honkey of the highest order.

All in all… it’s yet another sad day to be a wine lover living in PA…

Cheers!

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Some background: Wine critics generally use a 100-point scale when evaluating wines (I know most of you know this, bear with the exposition, people!). I don’t, because I think it implies a level of accuracy in evaluating a moving-target product (that can change within hours in the glass, let alone within years in the bottle) and so I (begrudgingly – hey, you asked for them!) use a “fuzzier” scale to evaluate the wine that I’m fortunate (and, ok, sometimes not-so-fortunate) enough to have cross my lips.

Generally, it’s assumed that many (probably most) wine critics reserve some part of their rating score for a wine’s color. For example, long-time Wine Spectator editor James Suckling once explained via video how he doles out his points when reviewing a wine, in which “things like color get 15 points.”

But is a wine’s color an important enough aspect on which to base 15% or so of one’s critical rating?  According to a (very) informal poll I took recently via twitter and facebook, the answer is probably “No.”…

It’s not that color isn’t important – it is, as any hard core wine geek (like me!) should be more-than-willing enough to tell you.

The clarity of a wine (which is, in some sense, an aspect of its color) can give you a hint as to whether or not the wine is flawed (there are many, many exceptions to this, but generally spoogy gunk misting up your wine inside the bottle is a portent of bad things to come).  Color can reveal a ton of info about any given wine for the truly geeky, most notably the general age of a wine (reds generally brick and get lighter with age, while whites generally darken and take on browner tinges) and maybe even the grape variety, given enough evaluation experience.

But the average Joe and Josette don’t seem to give much of a hoot about a wine’s color.  Even those with modest wine experience (again, based on my totally non-scientific, gut-reaction twitter & facebook “poll” I took last week) seem to have clued in on the fact that a darker red doesn’t necessarily indicate a more robust wine, a lighter red doesn’t necessarily indicate a softer or fruiter wine, a lighter white doesn’t necessarily mean a more refreshing wine, etc., etc., etc.

Disclaimer: Yes, this crowd-sourced stuff is subject to the evil Fallacy Of Small Numbers, so I will spare you a list of the exact responses.  But I’m not one to doubt the wisdom of the collective crowd when it comes to wine matters, particularly when that crowd consists of people who are wine lovers!  In other words, this is not the be-all-end-all on the subject by any means, but it’s not something to casually dismiss, either.

Anyway… In the end, a wine’s color can be beautiful, even spellbinding, but not necessarily an indication of future olfactory or gustatory performance – and 1WD readers have garnered enough experience under their gustatory wine belts to be pretty certain of that.

And while there’s little doubt that a wine’s color gives real aesthetic pleasure – have you ever seen the color on a world-class Tokaji?  it will positively blow your f*cking mind! – there’s certainly doubt to be casted on whether or not a wine’s color that pleases you will please anybody else. In terms of pure aesthetic pleasure, my wine color Picasso-Blue-Period might be your personal failed-art-student-water-color.

Part of the general lack of color-concern on the part of wine consumers is likely due to the level of filtering/clarifying/fining to which many wines are subjected now in order to achieve maximum clarity and luminosity. It can be argued – and is argued in the stunningly tasty results of cloudy wines such as Churchill’s White Port and the Natural Process Alliance’s Sauvignon Blanc – that too much of that processing robs a wine of some its more interesting characteristics.  For better or worse, as wine drinkers we’ve accepted and established a wine-color standard (or, at least, we’ve let the most influential wine critics establish a standard), but like the current woeful state of airline travel service, or the proliferation of high alcohol fruit-bomb wines, this might not necessarily be the standard that we need.

As for me, after examining the wine visually for flaws, etc., I generally only note a wine’s color if it’s particularly stunning to me, and generally this doesn’t make or break a review/rating – aroma, taste, mouthfeel, and finish far, far, far outweigh the color in my reviews. In fact, my color-rating percentage is probably more like 2% or 5% in my wine-rating-fuzzy-math.

So it seems that a good portion of the 15% or so of valuable review point space is actually wasted on evaluating whether or not a wine’s color is up-to-snuff (at least when it’s measured on an informal standard), when the customers of those reviews – the wine-buying public – might not care the 15%-worth about it themselves…

Should our point-scoring critic friends save the 15 points and doll them out in other areas that matter more?

Cheers!

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In the latest installment of 1WD TV, I go backstage in D.C. to talk to rocker Les Claypool about his Claypool Cellars wines, eat the butterscotch cookies in his Green Room, and generally geek out about great Sonoma Pinot Noir.  Les has just kicked off a tour with Primus in support of their new (excellent, dark & funky) album Green Naugahyde, a jaunt that will take them across a wide swath of the U.S., with stops in South America later this year and a stint at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall next April.

This is my second interview with Les (you can check out the first one here), and he’s still clearly very into the CC endeavor, and is quite the CA-boy homer when it comes to Pinot Noir.  Words can not accurately describe the coolness of this interview for me, so just watch the friggin’ video already because it’s Pudding Time, children!!!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Claypool Cellars wine
• Purple Pachyderm Pinot Noir
• Awesome, face-meltingly-good Pinot from the West Sonoma Coast

Cheers!

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