2002 Mount Eden Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon. 75% Cab, 23% Merlot, 2 % Cab Franc. 100% totally awesome. Very complex, great mountain fruit. Positively Bordeaux-esque. From 2000 feet high in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A stunner. Buy a case and enjoy over the next few years. It should retail for about 35 bucks. One of the [More]

I just had the 2002 White Cottage Cabernet Sauvginon Howell Mountain. Awesome. A really explosive wine with a ton of flavor. The alcohol is under 14%, the oak (14 months) is integrated and unobstrusive, and the fruit and minerality are present, big time! It’s a big, lovely, balanced cab…great acidity, too. Would be so good [More]

I am drinking a Napa cab made entirely from Spring Mountain fruit that comes in a shade under 30 bucks from the 2001 vintage. What’s not to love? And I can’t agree more with the winemaker: “There are a lot of tannins and intensity in mountain fruit, and I think there is a tendency in [More]

I have raved about the purity of the 2004 Verget Pouilly Fuisse. I tried one of his higher-end, barrel-aged PFs and it was awesome. One of the looooongest finishes on a white I have had in a while. Tasted the next day, warm, and the oak had really integrated and was very subtle and elegant. [More]

I thought it was a joke, but a friend of mine told me that she had a bottle of red wine called “Doobie Red” and it had something to do with the Doobie Brothers. Well, she wasn’t kidding. I sat on her patio with a bunch of people and drank it while listening to the [More]

For Seattle, it’s roasty. Over 90 degrees. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could be drinking vinho verde, riesling, blah blah blah. But I’m drinking Miller High Life out of a 16oz can. Delicious. Speaking of riesling, I’m going to a Terry Thiese tasting tomorrow and gorging myself on German and Austrian white. Hell yeah! Full report [More]

I never knew this wine existed and was in a wine shop where my Bordeaux guy told me I had to buy it and I said, “I hear and I obey.” What an incredible rosé!!! To think a third growth would make a rosé, WOW!!! I’m just going to say it is absolutely delicious. If [More]

…And cats and dogs are now living together! Click on the title of this post. Roederer has a shitstorm on their hands for snide remarks about not liking all the attention hip hop is giving Crissy. By attention, I would think they would mean free advertising and big sales.M y nominee for the new champers [More]