crowd pleaser wines
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Copping a Taste for the Mature (Thoughts on a Kopke Port Masterclass)
There are benefits to being the oldest Port house. And Kopke winemaker Carla Tiago seems (as per a recent virtual tasting of Kopke’s not-so-recent wines) to revel in at least one of them. Kopke was founded in 1638, and so is technically the oldest Port…
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Thumbs Up (RedThumb Recent Releases)
The guys at RedThumb are easy targets. For starters, they’re based in L.A. Also, they print the following on their labels, which they refer to as their standards: ● Made with organic grapes● Native yeast fermentation● Natural farming practices, including organic and dry farming● Minimal…
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Once More Around the Burning Horn (Dispatch From Etna)
With this article, I’ll be wrapping up feature coverage of last year’s media jaunt to Sicily’s Etna (you can expect quite a few more mini-reviews, however, from producers not given the feature treatment here). Those features (including write-ups of Torre Mora and Passopisciaro) have been…
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Wine In The Time of Coronavirus, Part 67: Here’s The Beef (Revisiting Uruguay Wines)
Longtime 1WD readers might remember Uruguay as the place where I met Pincho, a (technically wild) Capybara who was quite selective about who he did and did not let pet him (apparently, Capybara’s purr when they’re happy, by the way, which I can tell from…
