This Week’s Tasting Tasting: Thursday, March 24, 5:30-7:30 Dear Tasters, This week’s tasting features a selection of wines from South Africa and Australia. Three wineries will be represented: Secateurs, The Curator, and Torbreck. The wine selection includes one white made from Chenin Blanc, a rose (blend), and four reds, three that are blends and one…
Australian Wines Pewsey Vale– “Louisa Rose, originally from the Yarra Valley and a cool climate enthusiast, has been making the Pewsey Vale wines since 1996. Working closely with Vineyard Manager Darrell Kruger, who has been associated with Pewsey Vale for more than 20 years, Louisa is a firm adherent to the philosophy that ‘wine…
New World: Australia, New Zealand, Argentina “Pepperjack was established in 1859 under W. Salter & Son and remains a tribute to the outstanding quality and heritage of the Barossa, noted as one of Australia’s great regions for producing exemplary, truly iconic, red wines. The Pepperjack range is a tribute to the Barossa’s rich heritage….
Australian Wine d’Arenberg Winery “d’Arenberg is one of the most significant wineries in McLaren Vale. In 1912 Joseph Osborn, a teetotaller and director of Thomas Hardy and Sons, purchased the well-established Milton Vineyards of 25 hectares in the hills just north of the townships of Gloucester and Bellevue, now known as McLaren Vale. Joseph’s son…
This week’s tasting will feature three wines from California and three from Australia. Altogether there will be one white and five reds priced from $9.99-$18.99 Thursday night. Grayson Cellars Winery is located in the Napa Valley. They are one of the largest family-owned producers specializing in wines of value; they do not own vineyards but…
This Thursday’s tasting promises to be a good one, featuring wines from California and Australia; four reds and two whites altogether. The majority of these wines are brand-new to Spirits as well as some that we are quite excited for you to try! Vina Robles is a family owned producer in the Paso Robles AVA,…
This week we will sample six wines from Australia. There will be two whites and four reds that come from various regions of Southern Australia including the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale, and one that’s made from fruit sourced and blended from McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek and Clare Valley. These wines are all quality-driven and…
This week we will sample a variety of wine from France, Spain, and Australia (two per country) including one white, one rose, and four reds. From France we will try a good-value Bourgogne Blanc (Chardonnay, unoaked) for which the fruit all comes from the esteemed appellation of Chablis, and a well-known Rose from the Southern…
Australia is one of the largest wine producing countries; today it’s the fourth largest exporter in the world and the third largest exporter to the US (after France and Italy). Because of their association with what we in the business call “critter wines”, many times their wines are thought of as inferior; and although there…
It is quite common for people to seek “old” wines, and although a number of products like this are obtainable (generally high-end, collectible ones- yes, that means expensive), the vast majority of the wines that are readily available to us are the newest, youngest vintages, as they are released from the producers. Of course it…