I had a bottle of Le Rive, a soave classico the other night, by azienda agricola suavia. I imagine it will get 92-94 points out of Wine Spectator. Nice wine. Soave it ain’t.
Essentially they moved the wine away from the crisp light palate of soave and toward New World Chardonnay palate by [...]
I tried two new wines last night, Rico Suter Cabernet Sauvignon/Petit Verdot and Wyndam Estate Bin 525 Shiraz Grenache.
Not sure what to make of the Suter wine (from S. Africa.) Firstly it’s 15% which is headed towards vermouth territory. Secondly they recommend serving at 16 degrees.
I’m all in favour of this [...]
Here’s the lineup from Jeff Rogstad today:
Forty Creek Rye is missing from the picture. Any of them make great gifts.
Under $15 - Pink: cheery easy drinking rose bubbly
$35ish - Collazzi, french blends (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc) Italian grown. Incredibly nice structure, smooth balanced wine. And for less than price [...]
Found this bottle in the Sask Liquor store: Moulin Touchais for $38… had to try it. A 1982 white wine for sale?!?
Moulin Touchais is a legendary Loire dessert wine, from chenin blanc. Great acid, dead smooth, and will last a hundred years. I should have put it away for another thirty years. On the other [...]
Got back last night after a mere 24 hrs door to door. (I could have cut this to 22 hours but couldn’t sleep so got up and went to airport.)
The real news is: everybody in Portugal, and I mean everybody, the Institute, EVERYBODY, now agrees the 1994 vintage is the best in the [...]
The Minister wants to make the SLGA more user friendly. This is a good goal, but truthfully I don’t have any trouble with the SLGA retail side. The staff is very helpful, and I’ve worked out how to get what I want.
So I’m writing a column on under $25 Bordeaux (appearing June 9 in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix if you’re curious) and this required drinking a dozen of them.
Left Bank, right bank (Cabernet/Merlot respectively) young, old… send me your poor, your tannic, your wines yearning to be drunk!
Of course this was a wildly different set of [...]
The white wine, John (and I) was enjoying so much got mentioned off the air. I think I forgot to give it a name on air.
It was Evolution, an Oregon wine by Sokol Blosser. Great wine. Lovely bouquet, with great fruit and acid. Remarkably versatile wine.
The other two wines we drank were:
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So here we are with new and vastly improved website (Thanks Tien!) In future the JG Live broadcasts will be available as podcasts here, as will all liquors/wines/beers/books recommended.
Here’s Pt 1 of the last (February) broadcase. Podcasts must be broken down for ease of downloading
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