Taste, tweet and follow along with Whole Foods Market wine buyers and other wine enthusiasts at @WFMWineGuys and #WFMWine. To follow all of the tweets, visit twitter.com/#!/search/wfmwine. Have a Party – or Join a Whole Foods Market Tasting Party on Twitter! Simply pick up one or more of the three wines that will be featured during the Twitter Tasting. Better yet – get some friends together to...
Rioja, Spain’s most famous wine region and poster child for the country’s viticultural revolution, hardly needs a lengthy introduction. Here, though, is a brief summary for the uninitiated. The Rioja DO (appellation) stretches into Pais Vasco (Basque Country) in the north, the administrative region of Navarra to the north-east and Castilla y Leon to the west. This vast wine producing region...
This slam dunk Crémant de Loire grown in the region of Saumur delivers a TON of wine for the money and is purely delicious to drink. Yeasty and leesy on the nose with dynamic flavors of apricot and meyer lemon, this is remarkably clean, fresh, and vibrant bubbly that does not require a special occasion to be uncorked. Super versatile and lovely stuff from a producer to keep an eye out for. Pair with...
My last two days in Penedes were a whirlwind of top flight wines, some angry growers, sexually frustrated cellar staff (perhaps I’ll leave that one to my biography), and Catalan imitations of Bordeaux blends. Not a bad way to finish the week. Thursday morning saw a visit to Albet I Noya. This small, family-run business offers glorious views of the local vineyards. The owner, Josep Albet, has...
I met Gabrielle Shaffer and Adam McClary on the bocce courts of St. Helena this summer. I recognized some non-playing members of their team who were gathered around a picnic table laden with the usual summer evening’s bounty of cheeses, dips, salads, flatbreads, and, of course, an array of wines. They invited me to join them. Gabrielle is winemaker and Adam is chief bottle-washer and everything...
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