Posts belonging to Category Chardonnay

April 17, 2013
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Posted by Bacchus

time out! Time Out! TIME OUT!!!
Some folks hate to make new choices. They order wine like “I’ll have a Chardonnay” or “something red, please.”
The Athletic Directors for UCLA and USC recently made some big choices going all in with their new basketball coaches. Both went for value with important differences. Dan Guerrero of UCLA played the tradition card picking Steve Alford. Pat Haden showed a bit more moxie getting the Sweet 16 Cinderella coach Andy Enfield before he is priced out of SoCal. Coach Enfield barely gets more exposure than his wife Amanda Marcum the former “swimsuit model.” The next three years will feature Steve Alford versus Andy Enfield; two mid-career guys with different pedigrees and lots of history. (more…)
Categories: Argentina, Burgundy, Chablis, Chardonnay, Languedoc, Mendoza, Pinot Noir, Sonoma, Syrah, Torrontes, Under$20, Value Value Value, Wine Grapes
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Tags: 2007 Dovetail Seppa Vineyard Sonoma Coast Piot Noir, 2007 Laurent Miquel Nord Sud Syrah, 2008 Corine Perchaud Chablis, 2010 Alberti 154 Torrontes, 2011 Corte Gardoni Becco Rosso Corvina Veronese
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February 27, 2013
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Posted by Bacchus
If you’re talking wine and truffles 2013 has gotten off to a fine start. Forget the sequester, the Lakers and the Oscars. The truffle season in Oregon is in its final throes. The Eno Merchant is about to go live. tBoW just feels good all over. Let’s talk about truffles and Barolo wines! (more…)
Categories: Barbaresco, Barbaresco, Barolo, Champagne, Chardonnay, Guadalupe Valley, Kenwood, Los Angeles Culture, Nebbiolo, Northern Italy, Paso Robles, Port, Sonoma, Sparkling, Vermentino, Wine Grapes
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Tags: 2001 Wellington Vineyard Estate Bottled Sonoma Valley Port Old Vines, 2003 Scavino Barolo, 2007 Ronchi Barbaresco, 2008 LA Cetto Nebbiolo Private Reserve Barrel Aged, 2010 Tablas Creek Antithesis, 2011 Tablas Creek Vermentino, NV Nicolas Feuillatte
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January 15, 2013
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Posted by Bacchus
The 2012 Holiday Season has been full of highlights with plenty of curiosities to keep the mind working while melting. The easy part of the game is to taste interesting wines and avoid p-l-o-n-k. The harder part is to find value in the most interesting wines. However, the BEST part of knowing and drinking wine is finding a transcendental experience in a wine bottle. This event is rare and almost always unpredictable. We can make a good guess when it might happen but we never really know until well into the wine. At that point we just let it happen. Time slows to a crawl as we become enveloped in a meditative state of harmony and wonder. (more…)
Categories: Barbera, Barolo, Burgundy, Chardonnay, Cotes de Beaune, Nebbiolo, Piemonte, Wine Grapes
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October 5, 2012
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Posted by Bacchus

bacon habanero brittle
The Internet is a tool for having fun with anything you like. Well, we like food and wine so when REL invited us to her blog dinner we said we’ll bring the wine. We arrive at REL’s apartment building. She and Sean Rice have begun shooting this evening’s dinner that will be featured on
Sean’s food blog Meat Me.

REL has her own food blog
Things I Make in my Kitchen. Obviously, the two have been trading bits, bytes and quite a few megapixels. We are the first of four guests. Sofie and Paul will arrive shortly. I open the first wine.
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Categories: Chardonnay, Grenache Blanc, Loire Valley, Malibu Coast, Muscadet, Spain, Wine Grapes
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Tags: 2010 Kaplan Family Tree House Chardonnay, Meat Me blog
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September 12, 2012
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Posted by Bacchus
Now that’s what I’m talking about!

tBoW taster Shag-man knows good Burgundy can be had for less.
WTF?? Pinot Noir is now the #1 Wine Crop!! And that means prices will fall. Nobody else we know would ever place the word “cheap” in front of Burgundy because wine snobs would presume the stuff in the bottle sucked. IGTY would point out he can’t even find decent cheap New World Pinot Noir. We recently read that Pinot Noir is the most widely grown viniferain California, surpassing Cabernet Sauvignon. (more…)
Categories: Burgundy, Chardonnay, Cotes de Beaune, Cotes de Nuits, Pinot Noir, Wine Grapes
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Tags: 2009 Anne Gros Haut Cotes de Nuits, 2009 Marsannay Les Champs Perdrix Domaine Roy
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