Tasting Sonoma’s Best Barrel Lots
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Tasting Sonoma’s Best Barrel Lots

Bychrisboshaw

Attending trade auctions at which the wine industry offers special barrel lots that are generally unobtainable by ordinary consumers serves two purposes from my point of view. Firstly, these special barrels of wine are often the creme-de-la-creme of a winery’s production and an interesting gauge of what a winery thinks is their best stuff. I enjoy evaluating…

Sampling Napa Royalty: Notes from the Taste of Oakville
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Sampling Napa Royalty: Notes from the Taste of Oakville

Bychrisboshaw

It might not drive the pulse quite as much as an invitation to the annual presentation of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti‘s wines, but it’s definitely a pleasure to get the invitation to the annual Oakville Winegrowers’ tasting for the trade and media. Oakville remains the epicenter of Napa’s highest echelon of wines. Pritchard Hill, home to Colgin, Continuum, OVID, BRAND,…

at the 2021 FUTO Estate CFX Red Blend
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at the 2021 FUTO Estate CFX Red Blend

Bychrisboshaw

Once upon a time, much of the wine reviewing I did here on Vinography consisted of individual bottles—tasted, described, written up in long form. As time went on, however, the number of bottles arriving at my doorstep multiplied exponentially, and I ended up attending more large tastings and spending time visiting producers who always have…

Tasting Integrity: 25 Years of Corison Napa Cabernet
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Tasting Integrity: 25 Years of Corison Napa Cabernet

Bychrisboshaw

“This is how integrity tastes,” I found myself concluding as I tasted through 25 years of Cathy Corison’s efforts to express what she thinks her little patch of Napa Valley can say. In addition to meaning honest and upright, integrity means wholeness and completeness, and both definitions apply to Cathy’s wines individually, and as a…

The Majesty of Time: 25 Years of Corison’s Kronos Cabernet
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The Majesty of Time: 25 Years of Corison’s Kronos Cabernet

Bychrisboshaw

For many of my readers, Cathy Corison needs of Corison Vineyards no introduction (see Tasting Integrity: 25 Years of Corison Napa Cabernet). Quite to the contrary, for many of us, this legendary winemaker and her wines sit firmly in the pantheon of Napa’s greatest talents and greatest expressions of place. All of Cathy’s wines are excellent, but one…

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