June 2010

In April 2009′s edition of Food & Wine Magazine, author Ray Isle described Slovenia’s Movia winemaker Ales Kristancic as the “Wine Genius of Dobrovo”, and the “current star of the Slovenian wine scene”.  The winery could be Slovenia’s first cult wine according to Isle: “Movia in particular, has a following that makes religious fanatics seem [...]

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I’ll admit it, I’m in the minority when I say I find wines from the wildly popular cult Cayuse Vineyards undrinkable. I tasted no fruit, and it did not even resemble wine to me. However, many of the cult wine aficionados will pay $200 a bottle on auction sites (Cayuse’s “Bionic Frog” is projected at [...]

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E & R Wine Shop hosted a monster three day Oregon Pinot Noir event in late April, with 90 wineries and 136 Pinot Noirs.  We attended two of the days, and tasted 54 wines.  Most (if not all) of the wineries were represented by the actual winemakers which was pretty cool. Our Favorites: Antica Terra [...]

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Alice Feiring, my new hero of natural wines, blogged about the Chinon inspired California wines Bebame, which will be tasted today at Storyteller Wines.  She writes: Back story: I met Don Heistuman in the Loire oh, I don’t know, nine years ago? There we were, toes deep in snow and grooving to cabernet franc and [...]

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