If you’re looking for an exquisite new red wine for an adventurous palate, try the 2014 Post House Penny Black from South Africa. This is wine every postal worker should want to call his/her own. More on that later. Penny Black is one of the inkiest, black-colored wines I’ve ever seen. Once in the glass, […]
Month: March 2017
Goldschmidt Cabernets big, bold and beautiful
The only thing missing from a tasting of Nick Goldschmidt’s California wines was the winemaker himself. I wrote Goldschmidt an email with several questions about the wines sampled recently at the Wine ConneXtion, and he quickly responded: “Sorry I am out of the country completing harvest down below the equator. … Sorry for the inconvenience […]
His haul is finding quality inexpensive wines
What impressed me at the 2017 Boston Wine Expo held in February were the quality of wines on display and their affordable prices. The only problem is finding these wines — especially foreign products — in local shops. Many small producers don’t have national or regional distributors. That’s where Joe Meunier comes in. Meunier is […]
It's no act — Italy's La Spinetta makes fine wines
A quick glance across the room and it looks as if Al Pacino is standing in front of a map of Italy’s Piedmont region, pointing to the unique hillside vineyards where some of the world’s most majestic and monolithic wines are made. The Italian’s hair is longish, tousled, salt-and-pepper, the same as his scraggly beard. […]
