The Chicago Wino: Owen Roe - How you swoon me...
One of the things I learned this past year, and highly recommended to you, is to taste Owen Roe Winery from Washington. I have not had a bad wine from them yet. They really have a tasty line! Here are some of my favorites to keep me warm in the winter:
• Yakima Valley Red Blend 2009 (59% Merlot / 24% Cabernet Franc / 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, $42): Aromas of red flowers, red and black plums, cranberry sauce and blackberry currant. Flavors of tart red cherries, blueberry cobbler, and raspberry give way to a balanced tannins and finish with warm, lingering Madagascar vanilla and black licorice. The winery states, "It smells like Merlot, drinks like Cabernet Franc and finishes like Cabernet Sauvignon!" Drink now or age this seductive wine for 10-20 years.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Rhône Around the World: Owen Roe, 2010 Sinister Hand, Columbia Valley
Rhône Around the World: Owen Roe, 2010 Sinister Hand, Columbia Valley
Owen Roe is committed to practicing the highest standards of winemaking. Since the first vintage in 1999, Owen Roe winery has been working to produce exceptional wines from fruit sourced from small vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley in Oregon and the Yakima Valley in Washington State, a place where the fruit ripens slowly and fully, resulting in excellent acidity and balance, in an effort to showcase the best expression of each variety.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Gerard Boulay Sancerre Comtesse 2008
Gerard Boulay Sancerre Comtesse 2008
With those thoughts in mind let's move onto this week's wine, a domaine that I am not hugely familiar with, although that is sure to change. Gérard Boulay comes from a line of vignerons that have been working the soils around Chavignol since at least the 14th century. He has 9 hectares of vines, almost all on the Kimmeridgian marl or terres blanches that characterise these slopes; the cuvée in question here, the Sancerre La Comtesse from the 2008 vintage, originates from a parcel of 65-year old vines which Boulay has been renting since 2004.
With those thoughts in mind let's move onto this week's wine, a domaine that I am not hugely familiar with, although that is sure to change. Gérard Boulay comes from a line of vignerons that have been working the soils around Chavignol since at least the 14th century. He has 9 hectares of vines, almost all on the Kimmeridgian marl or terres blanches that characterise these slopes; the cuvée in question here, the Sancerre La Comtesse from the 2008 vintage, originates from a parcel of 65-year old vines which Boulay has been renting since 2004.
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