CHOOSE PREFERED LANGUAGE AT BOTTOM OF HOME PAGE. Yesterday I attended a wine tasting at El Horreo de V Suarez in Ponce, PR. It was a Barrel Tasting for 2015 Vintage of Louis Jadot greatest Burgundies. Barrel tasting means that these wines had not yet seen bottle aging so they are brand new. Is this important?…
Educate Your Senses
One of the biggest pleasures I got from learning to taste wine was the opportunity to “get to know” or enhance my senses, primarily the sense of smell. I had no idea the nose could be educated to remember smells and that, once mastered, the skill could help me perfect my food paring and wine…
New & Trendy Drinks
Frose, the official drink of the Australian Open. It emigrated from New York to Sydney. Basically a Rose wine slushie, it is made with rose wine, strawberries and a little punch from vodka or vermouth. I found a nice recipe at realsimple.com which is: Using previously freezed rose wine cubes, blend them together with 1 cup…
How do you know that a wine is good?
I have been asked this question many times. Answering in a non snobby way, I can say that you will know that a wine is good the same way you know that a book is good, by reading many, many books. The more you read, the more you appreciate and learn to differentiate a good…
From Dirt to Greatness
Wine flavor is mostly influenced by climate and the terrain where the vine is grown. A vine is a grape plant. The vine that produces grapes for wine is called Vitis vinifera. It is a strong plant with long roots that go very deep into the ground. They could go as deep as 9 feet…
Great Finds under $20
CHOOSE LANGUAGE AT BOTTOM OF FRONT PAGE. Louis Latour Domaine Valmoissine is a wine from Burgundy, France, more specifically from Beaune, Cote de Nuits, Borgogne (Burgundy), France. Why is this important? First of all because in that region the place where the grapes are grown determines the level of quality of the wine. Second of…
Great Finds under $40
The great find of this week is Vosne-Romanee from Maison Gille, Cote de Nuit, France. Great value from a very expensive zip code. Distributed in Puerto Rico by Ballester Hnos, this powerful and well balanced Pinot Noir has nice aromas and a long finish. What this means is that tannins, acid and body are all…
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