If you’re following our Casual Winers Wine 101 program, you will have learned about this type of wine. Rieslings from Alsace, France are light and dry. They are NOT to be confused with their across the border German Rieslings which are often sweet. The German will add grape juice or sugar to their Rieslings which …
A good friend of ours introduced us to this wine a while back before it became as popular as it has. It’s currently on Vivino’s top 20 under $20. I absolutely love this and you’ll see in our tasting video that follows. Sofia had never tasted this one and get her reaction to it. In …
Read up on the Pinot Noir article we released a few weeks back to familiarize yourself with where Pinot are grown. Pinots are a finicky grape variety which cannot be grown just anywhere. Duckhorn Vineyards and their Decoy brand is one you’ll find in a lot of places. Their wines are typically in the $15 …
I’ve been a Naked Wine club members a while. I’m a supporter of these smaller wine growers that get funded through this co-op set up and I’ve been happy with the wines I’ve purchased from them. One of the winemakers I follow is Sharon Weeks out of California. You’ll recognize her wines by the cats …
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I shared with my friend, Luis Montoto from Wine41 here in Miami, that I was tasting Pinot Noir wines. “It’s our theme for March,” I told him. He asked me if I had ever tasted any South American Pinot Noir wines. If you’ve been following me, you know this Pinot Noir thing is a recent …
Pinot Noir is my wife’s favorite red and as I’ve tasted more and more of these I’m really liking them. They are lighter than your bolder reds like Cab, Merlot, Zinfandel or Syrah wines. They don’t leave heavy acidic ending. They are dry and have a smoothness or silkiness to them. They go down easy …
My wife, Any, and I recently visited with our friends and Casual Winers Cathy and Andrew Kitchura. They live in Sacrament just a short drive from Napa and California’s top wine producing regions. It was a treat visiting a wine growing region with a couple that knows wine and the area really well. They gave us …
This is the first French white wine we are tasting. It’s from the Loire Valley in northwestern France. This is Sauvignon Blanc country. This is a very easy tasting wine. It is somewhat light, but not too much so. It has beautiful color. See how interestingly we describe it in the video. Smells of pear. …
As we continue with our French theme this month, we are tasting a Bordeaux blend. If you read our article on French wines, you’ll remember that Bordeaux wines come from two sides of the river. You have the left and right bank with the right bank producing Merlots. This ones from St-Emilion on this right …
Casual Winers member and good friend, Larry Dickson, treated us to a Primitivo he really likes when we visited with him a few weeks back. Sofia and I tasted it and share our thoughts, along with his, in this video. Please let us know. Have you had a Primitivo? It’s another name for the Zinfandel …
