WineryWineVintageDosagePointScoreTasting NotesTerrabianca2021extra brut90Floral aromas that include roses. Creamy body, bright acidity. Well balanced.Ferraris AgricolaTenuta Santa Chiara2021brut90Bright and powerful aromas in this medium body wine with a bright citrus finish. Vite ColteCinquecento2021brut91Creamy,…
Overview. It's been awhile since I posted, but I have been busy with editing and some travel. Today I post this piece, and another can be accessed with tasting notes…
Below are tasting notes for 113 wines produced on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy. These include sparkling, white, red and rosé wines. This list accompanies an article…
Overview. I recently drove two hours south into Spain for an overnight trip. I first visited the Terra Remota winery, then had dinner in a magical little village name Besalú.…
Recent Posts. My recent Forbes posts include the following: Wines From Four Italian Regions To Sample This Summer(with companion Vino Voices piece with more wines, here) Maxi Edmond De Rothschild…
Summer Italian Wines From Veneto, Abruzzo, Piedmont & Emilia-Romagna The wines below complement and expand on those written in my recent Forbes article titled Wines From Four Italian Regions To…
Recent. Recent Forbes articles I've written include the following: Sardinian Wines - Sculpted By Wind, Salt, Soil And Scrub Feast On Wine, Food And Tranquility On Sardinia’s Sant’Antioco Island Why…
This is a companion article to the Forbes articled titled Azerbaijan Angles To Distinguish Its Wines. The following tasting notes complement the notes in the Forbes article. A small scale…
The following wine tasting notes for 66 Timorasso white wines from the Piedmont region of Italy complements my Forbes article titled This Italian Grape That Almost Vanished Is Gaining Taste…
News about Books, Videos and Social Media. My paperback book Vino Voices - Wine, Work, Life is still on sale (despite my not having marketed it) and includes interviews with…
General. This post highlights meals eaten during a recent visit to the region around Naples in the Campania Region of Italy. More information on that visit and what to see…
Introduction. Recent Forbes articles cover the Wine Paris 2025 event, selected wines tasted during that event and more tastings from the 2022 vintage. Wine Paris 2025 - Movies, Majesty And…
Part 1. Recent Writings & Videos. Here are three Forbes articles about selections of French and Italian wines, and an intimate but professional annual wine gathering in Montpellier. 12 Winter…
2025 has kicked in. A New Year. So what is a 'new year?' Basically it's the solstice—a celebration that days stop shortening and the amount of daylight will now increase…
After enjoying a splendid Thanksgiving dinner with neighbors in southern France in November, I drove to the Northern Rhone Valley to sample wines and food. Climbing the vine covered Hill…
1. Forbes Articles. This piece matches an article I just published in Forbes titled How An Insult Created A Sparkling Wine Appellation In Piedmont, Italy. 2. Dinners and Wines in…
1. Moving. I spent about eight years living in a town outside of Bordeaux city in southwest France. It was a good life. Yet I moved to find another welcoming…
Writings. My latest two Forbes pieces are here: Autumn Wines To Try From Five Regions Of Italy This Vintage Pre-1987 Bicycle Ride Is Pure Tuscany Overview. In September during a…
Below are companion wine tasting notes to two Forbes articles I just published regarding the 2022 Bordeaux wine vintage. These wines have been bottled and are now ready to purchase…
Recent Writings. My recent Forbes articles cover both a 176 kilometer (109 mile) trail run around Mont Blanc in France, an interview with the CEO of Accor who sponsors the…
1. Overview I recently spent a weekend in Bordeaux and nearby Bergerac catching up with friends and winemakers. Bergerac, in the administrative 'department' of Dordogne, can appear skinny on soul…
1. Overview In late June I was invited to a summer garden party in Beaune, Burgundy, by the owners of 67 Pall Mall private members wine club based in London…
1. Overview. Lake Garda in northern Italy is the country's largest lake, a glacial carved beautiful locale popular for visitors, water sports, food and wine. Below are courses of a…
Overview. This post includes two events—a dinner in Minervois, and a visit to Alsace to see friends and a mountain trail run, as well as to sample local food and…
The following five just published and related Forbes articles highlight wine vintage 2023—based on tasting over 200 Bordeaux wines. The wine tasting notes that follow complement these articles by providing…
1. Rhone Valley Rasteau Wines Tastings & Value. Below are faces of winemakers from a recent visit to the Rasteau wine region of the Rhone Valley in France. Rasteau wine…
OVERVIEW. I was born on the island of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands. The last time I was there was when I was seven years old. My parents sold…
Last week I attended the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges wine auction in Burgundy in France within Château du Clos de Vougeot. Some related Forbes articles are here: Hospices de Nuits Burgundy…
Wine Paris / VinExpo is a trade fair jam packed with winemakers from throughout the world. It's also a venue for catching up. Starting the night before—with Monsieur Kandler whose…
Fountain in Caunes-Minervois in the evening FIRST - My latest Forbes pieces are here, including one on a local truffle market in southern France. SECOND - For the third time…
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!! FIRST - Recent Forbes articles I've published include: Why Wine Writing Is Tricky The Diverse World Of Ballpoint Art Colorado Wines Hitting High Points A New…
First, my recent Forbes articles are titled Why Wine Writing Is Tricky, and Cape Town, Puglia, Provence and Bordeaux Wines to Taste This Fall. Now, art, wine and penmanship. When…
Here are images and notes from a recent trip to western Sicily. Tasting notes and more photos are at my Forbes piece titled Shifting Wine Trends in Sicily. 1. DISHES…
INTRODUCTION. Check out my lastest Forbes posts, which include: Wine Is The Secret Of This Year's Tuscany Street Food Winners Her French Wine Bar is So Homey That Some Customers…
INTRODUCTION. An introduction to the Minervois and Saint-Chinian wine regions of southern France, and notes on tasting several wines, is included in this Forbes article I just published, titled The…
While returning, recently, from the Solomon Islands to France, the flight from Port Moresby in New Guinea was delayed, causing me to miss my connecting flight in Singapore to Dubai.…
Serah's Hideaway on Langa Langa Lagoon, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands OVERVIEW. It has been two months since I arrived in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to direct an…
Penfolds Shiraz & Vanuatu Grass Fed Beef Roadside flowers First, check out my latest Forbes articles on five restaurants in southwest France and reviews of 124 wines from vintage 2020.…
Happy Holidays and Entry into 2023! Check out my latest Forbes pieces here. OVERVIEW. This year I made several brief trips to Italy—most recently for a three day weekend which…
Check out my latest Forbes articles here including—the 1855 classification of Burgundy soils, exploring Malaga city in Spain like a local, international sommeliers exploring Bordeaux, and sampling wines from Texas,…
The background for this post is included in a three part Forbes series I wrote about exploring Tuscany's wine country in a Fiat 500 ('cinquecento') car. Exploring Tuscan Wine Country…
OVERVIEW - We begin with Artificial Intelligence. I plugged the name of this blog post into the Wombo Dreams app—which generates unique, artificial intelligence created images from words. Using two…
OVERVIEW. To learn more about the successful, quality driven wine cooperatives of Cantina Terlan and Cantina Andriano in the far northern Alto Adige region of Italy, ready my Forbes piece…
OVERVIEW. Check out my two Forbes posts on Sardinia here and here. We'll start off in the northeast along the Emerald Coast (Costa Smeralda), move to the northwest, then southwest…
OVERVIEW. Emilia-Romagna is one of Italy's 20 regions, and is known for 'fast cars and slow food,' as well as some great wines. Check out my recent Forbes piece on…
Coliseum at night INTRODUCTION. Welcome! First of all—check out my latest Forbes articles here. I will publish one in early July about Emiglia-Romagna wines of Italy, including tasting note for…
INTRODUCTION. I have now published over 700 free articles. The links in three indexes below lead to all of them. The first blog post—Vino Expressions (now Vino Voices)—came out a…
Check out my latest Forbes pieces here. They cover 110+ Bordeaux wine notes from 2019, as well as the mountain wine region of Irouleguy. OVERVIEW. Below—three lovely southern French towns,…
OVERVIEW. In 2017 Michel Puzio purchased Château le Valladoux in the Perigord region of southern France. He soon began producing wine under the label Domaine de L'Écrivain. Château le Valladoux,…
OVERVIEW. San Sebastian (known as Donostia in the Basque language) is located in northern Spain, on the Atlantic Ocean Bay of Biscay. Because it is only a few hours away,…
OVERVIEW. In November, a dozen member of Premium Familiae Vini—robust and renowned producers of European based wines—presented an award to the family company Maison Bernard that works with natural materials…
Cathédrale Saint-André, Bordeaux city OVERVIEW. I recently drove to Bordeaux and stayed at a wonderfully spacious hotel with an inner courtyard and never expected that the day and evening and…
Song, by Bông, from Château Songes This is a special edition post—in which I include tasting notes for hundreds of wines from Bordeaux's 2020 vintage. This post expands on information…
UPDATES. Spring is in full gear, although there is still not too much in the way of travel. We are expecting that restaurants may be open for terrace service as…
UPDATES. The brutal frost that hit France last April 6th and 7th (more to the north, in Burgundy, than to the south in Bordeaux) hit again last night. The consequences…
UPDATES. Laetitia Ouspointour of LO Wine interviewed me about our own Etalon Rouge wine recently on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMP1Y4EFGxi/ Also, last Friday, I did a tasting of four Pinot Noir wines—three…
UPDATES. I've added a new category to this site—'Winds of Wine—News about Vintages, Travel and Lifestyle.' Frequently I receive updates from others and cannot write about them all, so am…
Whispers that spring may be coming UPDATES. Yesterday I published three Forbes articles with reviews of 83 Bordeaux vintage 2018 wines (69 reds and 14 whites), and included recommended food…
The little port of Blaye, where the bicycle/running trail begins/ends UPDATES. After a 'dry January,' I'll be tasting and writing about many wines (and wine regions and food pairings) in…
UPDATES. Below is a newly released Vino Voices video! Thanks to STA Marchand productions. Most footage was shot last summer, during celebrations after the first lockdown. https://youtu.be/5XuBmyNgxBY OVERVIEW. Nuits-Saint-Georges in…
UPDATES. Because January will be a month of reduced wine intake and increased morning runs in the dark and freezing weather (always invigorating!), the next wine livestreams will be in…
UPDATES. Below is the latest Instagram Livefeed wine tasting. This time it included Bordeaux wines from Château de Côts located in the Côtes de Bourg appellation in the northern portion…
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