Wine review : Freemark Abbey “Josephine” (2012, St. Helena, Napa Valley, California)

Serve well chilled for the fullest visual-sensual experience. Aromas fill the glass like chilled saltwater sea-licked morning fogs that sleepily yet gracefully lift with the first rays of sunlight from the vineyard immediately post-harvest – where an abundance of ground-trodden grapes, having been all too hastily removed from the vines and having slipped from the…

Wine review: Concha Y Toro “Frontera / After Dark” Chardonnay (2018, Central Valley, Chile)

Crisp, light, and restorative. Flavor disappears quickly but leaves a modestly bright, clean mouth feel. Simple aromatic profile, nothing mysterious – just a decent foundation: Steel, citrus pith, and colorful Autumnal oak leaves that have just left the trees. Superb value as a secondary wine to bring along to a summer picnic, to serve to…

Wine Review: Bernard Latour and Fils Domaine de l’Espigouette Vieilles Vignes (Côtes du Rhône, 2016)

First, you enter a garden. And from there, you enter a florist. But then suddenly, all the flowers give way to a laundromat (of high-end distinction surely!), or perhaps a spa that caters to bridal parties, where the Bride-to-Be insisted that all her treatments should be scented with violets, lavender, and every other purple-hued flower…