California Pinot Noir ranges from hefty, intense, and concentrated (and sometimes blowsy and overdone) to delicate and elegant (but sometimes simple and understated). This offering
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Budget Wine: La Boca Malbec Mendoza 2012
I’ve been on a cheap Malbec kick lately. This one’s from Bronco wines. In style it contrasts sharply with the Bodega De Elena I reviewed
Will America Save the Wine World?
From the “implausible titles” file comes this headline from Blake Gray writing for Palate Press. But Gray may be onto something. While wine consumption is
Not Just a Matter of Taste
Sharp disagreements among wine experts about the virtues of a particular wine are common. One critic thinks a wine is flabby and disjoint; the other thinks
Craftwork Pinot Noir Monterey 2009
What’s Up with Wilfred Wong? On short notice, I needed a wine to take to a party—not too expensive, familiar enough to please a diversity
Budget Wine: Bodega Elena De Mendoza Malbec 2011
You wouldn’t know it from the label, which refers lovingly to the “home at the foot of the Andes” , but this wine is from E.J.
