Archive for December, 2007
2001 Valmengaux Bordeaux Supérieur
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Bordeaux Supérieur wines are always a gamble. In terms of classification, the label simply means that the wine comes from somewhere in the Gironde region and has met minimal requirements for wines that carry the AOC Bordeaux Supérieur name. It’s generally table wine, meant to be drunk within a few years of bottling.
The great thing […]
Manage Your Cellar
Friday, December 21st, 2007Once you have more than a few dozen bottle sof wine in the house you’ll probably start to develop some way of keeping track of them. Maybe a little Excel spreadsheet, or a database, or index cards in a box. I like Tellico a lot, which is a general-purpose collection tracker that has been around […]
The Decent French Bread Recipe
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007I thought I’d share the recipe for the Decent French Bread that I raved about in an earlier post. It’s based on Julia Child’s master recipe, with some slight modifications. This creates a delicious French bread that is very close to what you’d find in a Parisian boulangerie but, like most bread, is very simple […]
2000 Clos les Lunelles
Monday, December 17th, 2007The 2000 was produced the year before before Gerard Perse and his wife purchased this 24-acre property. The 2000 Lunelles is about 80% Merlot, the rest being Cabernet Sauvignon and a bit of Cabernet Franc, as is more or less traditional for the Cotes de Castillon. It’s just now coming to its peak…the wine is […]
An Awesome Aussie for $15
Friday, December 14th, 2007Australian red wine is the antithesis of French Bordeaux. Instead of the quaint, stone-wall-enclosed vineyards of tens or hundreds of hectares, lovingly hand-tended by a garagiste we find, to be it blunt, wine farms.
Not that this is a bad thing. It’s similar to the model used in California, Argentina, Chile, and many, many other wine […]
Great Bordeux Value: 2003 Puygeuraud
Thursday, December 13th, 2007With the euro growing stronger with every passing day against the dollar it’s becoming more and more difficult to find French wine at reasonable prices. Chateaux that used to run in the $20 per bottle range are now selling in the $40 range. The outstanding 2000 vintage, with its concomitant leap in prices, didn’t help […]