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Pinot Noir Tasting Notes for Beginners Pinot Noir is often described as the “heartbreak grape” for winemakers due to its delicate nature, but for wine lovers, it offers one of the most rewarding and complex tasting experiences
If you’re new to this celebrated red wine, learning to identify its key characteristics can deepen your appreciation and guide your future selections. Here’s a beginner-friendly guide to understanding Pinot Noir tasting notes. The Profile: Elegance Over Power Unlike bold
Affordable Alternatives to Expensive Bordeaux For wine lovers, few names carry the prestige and promise of Bordeaux
The legendary wines from this region—think Château Margaux, Pétrus, or Château Lafite Rothschild—represent the pinnacle of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot blends. Yet, with price tags often soaring into the hundreds or thousands of dollars per bottle, enjoying the classic Bordeaux
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Peloponnesian Greek Wine
This will be our third Greek wine review. The first was a sweet wine from the island of Samos. Then came a red from the island of Crete also made by today’s producer. Now we continue with a white from
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Review Of $10 Wines – A Sweet Low- Alcohol Italian Wine
Did you ever want to drink a wine with a very low alcohol level? Here’s your chance. Today’s wine is kosher, marketed by the largest kosher wine distributor in the world. It comes from the Asti province of the Piedmont
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Red Crete (Greece) Blend
This is one of our first Greek wine reviews and the first review devoted to a wine from the island of Crete which produces about one fifth of all Greek wine. Kourtaki, the producer, was founded way back in 1895
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide to $10 Wines – A Red From Montenegro
This is our first review of a wine from Montenegro, a small country in southeastern Europe that was part of Yugoslavia. Montenegro has been producing wine for more than two thousand years, so perhaps it’s time to take a look
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Review of $10 Wines – A Red Sicilian Blend
Please let me apologize. Usually I place these weekly reviews on my website Sunday night or Monday night. This one went up on Tuesday; last night was President Obama’s first prime time news conference. I’m not going to talk about
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide to $10 Wines – An Australian Sauvignon Blanc
This is our second Australian wine, and our first Sauvignon Blanc. Australia is a major wine producer partly because Australians drink well over twice as much wine per capita as do Americans. The wine reviewed below comes from Victoria, Australia’s