Napa Valley winemaker Joe Wagner put Meiomi Pinot Noir on the map, proving that you can make a quality wine for consumer tastes and achieve commercial success. Some winemakers choose to make wines for themselves, without taking into account what the public prefers in wine. That best part of Wagner’s philosophy is that a good […]
Month: February 2017
A delightful, and affordable, find: 2010 'LXXIV' Primitivo
I’ve learned from experience that a wine must be pretty good when there is only one bottle of it left on a store shelf surrounded by stacked rows of other bottles. So it was that the Feudo di Croce “LXXIV” Primitivo di Manduria caught my eye recently. The black bottle with gold lettering was hefty. […]
These Malbecs from Mendoza make their mark
It’s incredible that Mendoza, a province where Argentina’s most impressive wines are produced, is the size of New York state. More than 35 million acres are under vine, a total representing just 5 percent of the area’s total land mass. The top vineyards are located in Argentina’s central zone at elevations of 4,000 to 5,000 […]
