French wine
This bottle could well be the future of the much-troubled French wine business. If so, the future may not be as dire as so many fear. The Little James ($12, purchased, available at[...]
18 Jul 2012
My winning streak with cheap pinot noir from the Languedoc region of France continues. First, there was the Tortoise Creek, and now there is the Luc Pirlet ($10, purchased, availab[...]
09 May 2012
Total Wine, a large regional chain, is supposed to open in Dallas shortly. Throw in Trader Joe’s, which is supposed to open this fall, and Spec’s, Texas’ largest [...]
18 Apr 2012
Where do I begin to praise the Trocard ($10, purchased, available at Spec’s)? Cheap wine does not get much better than this: • It’s a previous vintage, and it̵[...]
21 Mar 2012
I have finally figured out why Americans don’t drink more rose, and it’s not what I thought — that we confuse rose with sweet pink wines like white zinfandel. The[...]
14 Mar 2012
The holiday that must not be named is next week. You want to buy sparkling wine. But sparkling wine, being sparkling wine, is expensive and confusing. Not to worry. I am on the job[...]
08 Feb 2012
White wines from France’s Rhone region aren’t particularly well known and, at least in this country, don’t get all that much respect. You don’t see many of [...]
01 Feb 2012
This white blend from Bordeaux has been in and out of the $10 Hall since I started it 10 years ago — but not because of quality. Rather, what once was a $10 wine ha[...]
04 Jan 2012
I was drinking rose the other day, and a question came up. Why, if so many roses are supposed to be dry, do some California roses seem sweet? Two reasons. One is the idea of percep[...]
01 Sep 2010
