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Hardball in the Bronx Last March, we conducted an exhaustive tasting of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons from the 2011 vintage. We called that tasting “The NYC Marathon.” Over 100 wines were evaluated over four hours. Roughly half, we determined, were uninspired, most drawn from valley-floor vineyards that struggled to bring clusters to physiological ripeness in…
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Practicing Patience in Montalcino: Parker’s 96pt Brunello of the Year If you’re a Brunello enthusiast, or even if you’re a serious Burgundy collector, you know that the 2011 vintage in Montalcino gave birth to a handful of fabulously seductive Sangioveses, some of which actually outpoint the stellar 2010s. At our comprehensive tasting of 2011 Brunelli…
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2011 Louis Latour Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru “La Maltroie” Since 2010, Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune has suffered through five consecutive short harvests. On the calcareous hillsides above Meursault, Chassagne-Montrachet, and Puligny-Montrachet where the finest Chardonnay in the world is grown, allocations have never been smaller — or prices higher — as demand for Grand Crus and…
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Serralunga Limestone: Wine Spectator’s #1 Barolo of the Year At least for the time being, Piedmont’s 2011 vintage has been overshadowed by the extraordinary 2010 harvest. But, as The Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, and Barolo specialist Antonio Galloni have noted in recent months, certain 2011s eclipse the 2010s when it comes to dark-fruit concentration, raciness,…
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Unbeatable Value Grand Cru Vintage Champagne It’s not easy to find value in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. The tiny hamlet in Champagne’s Côte des Blancs produces some of the most expensive bottlings in the world — think Krug Clos du Mesnil at upwards of $1,000 per bottle. Here, the chalky, limestone soils yield rich, ethereal wines that…
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Heir Apparent to the King of Amarone It is impossible to speak about Amarone and not utter the name Giuseppe Quintarelli; if you knew the late master, you might say “Bepi.” You can thank Quintarelli for the high prices Amarone fetches today, up to $400 a bottle. Luckily for us, Quintarelli mentored Nicola Ferrari for…
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The Sicilian Renaissance — Wine Advocate’s 93pt Riserva In the 1960s and 1970s, the Sicilian wine industry was foundering, not unlike Tuscany. As much of the wine world was making great strides in the vines and the cellar, Sicily was all but left behind. The island continued to churn out oceans of cheap dry wines…
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A Historic Day Technically, we’d had the appointment for about a month. But realistically, we’d been looking forward to it for years. So on a beautiful August day, the Wine Access offices in the town of Napa emptied. Everyone in the company headed north on Silverado Trail to the Oakville AVA, to make our first…
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Outpointing the “AIAs”: Bolgheri’s Newest 97-Point Star Soon after leaving University of Wisconsin’s School of Journalism, James Suckling moved back west in pursuit of a newspaper career. He responded to an advertisement from a brand-new magazine called Wine Spectator based in San Diego with 800 subscribers. Suckling was hired by Marvin Shanken in 1981, and,…
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“Readers won’t run across too many 2011 Brunellos with this level of pure salivating energy” — Antonio Galloni At our comprehensive tasting of 2011 Brunelli di Montalcino, we evaluated wines from nearly 50 estates. Nearly every wine we tasted was delicious on release. But a small handful of 2011 Brunelli are also notably age-worthy, marrying…
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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait… Eight years. That’s how long Oregon Pinot fans have been looking forward to this: Winemaker Scott Shull’s 2011 Raptor Ridge Pinot Noir Meredith Mitchell Vineyard is finally here, and just hitting its stride. Lively and energetic, with silken tannins and a Burgundian savoriness of mushroom and tilled earth…
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2011 Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon “Reserve”: A 94pt Miracle on Spring Mountain As we learned in the high ground of Spring and Howell mountains two weeks ago, those who were quick to universally decry Napa Valley’s 2011 vintage completely missed the boat. For reasons we will explain in some detail, estates perched well above the fog…
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Gran Selezione: “Super-Riservas” Take a Run at Montalcino In the mid-1990s, a band of Tuscan pioneers, tired of being upstaged by Montalcino, wrote a two-part blueprint designed to match the richness and density of Brunello while retaining the chiseled structure of the cool soils of Chianti Classico. Over the last 18 months, that blueprint has…
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Vintage Champagne from Grand Cru Masters Only the confident seek the judgment of their peers. The 28 producers of the Special Club readily submit to the scrutiny of their fellow grower-producers because they know how to craft exceptional Champagne. One of the pre-eminent symbols of quality in Champagne, the “Special Club” label only goes on…
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Of all of Napa’s AVAs, none varies more widely than Mount Veeder when it comes to soil composition, exposure, and microclimate. If you spend a half day driving up and down these mountain roads, you discover sun-drenched perches where vineyard crews struggle to fend off blistering in hot vintages. Then, just around a bend, you’ll find…
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From Châteauneuf’s Holy Grail La Crau The La Crau lieu-dit is unquestionably the defining site of Châteauneuf-du-Pape — where some of the greatest wines in the world originate, like those from Vieux Télégraphe and Henri Bonneau. This 2011 Tardieu-Laurent Cuvée Spéciale was produced from grapes plucked off 110-year old vines in La Crau that snake…
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$160.00 Original price was: $160.00.$80.00Current price is: $80.00.
Hailing from one of Italy’s most iconic and coveted Super Tuscan estates, the 2011 Ornellaia Bolgheri set off explosive critical fireworks from nearly every major wine publication in the world. 97 points from Galloni, who revelled over the massive Bordeaux blend that “boasts superb depth, richness and power,” and “is built for the long haul.”…
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Antonio Galloni’s 92pt “Veneroso” … A Stone’s Throw from the Tuscan Coast Ghizzano is a small hillside village perched 200 meters above sea level, equidistant from Livorno and Pisa, a stone’s throw from the Tuscan coast. Here, in the shadow of the magnificent stone tower built by Venerosi Pesciolini at the tail end of the…
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Robert Parker: “What they are accomplishing with Bordeaux varietals is mind-boggling.” If you’re the owner of Screaming Eagle, and you purchase a sprawling property on the high ground of Ballard Canyon, you spare no expense in evaluating the potential for growing world-class Bordeaux varieties. Not surprisingly, then, soon after the most talked-about land grab in…
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2011 Three Wine Company “1885” … Saving Lucchesi Over the years, we’ve been told hundreds of stories of backroom deals on the Beltway that squeeze out the little guys for the benefit of the powerful. But as anyone in the state-regulated wine business will tell you, the Feds are choirboys compared to their local counterparts….
