Tim Lemke

French Wine

Bila-Haut, Cotes Du Roussillon Villages 2015

January 21, 2017 Tim Lemke 0

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I always like to find consistent, reliably-good and affordable wines. That can be a hard thing. Sometimes you find a bargain wine you love and then the next year it’s not so good. Or you find that hidden gem, but so does everyone else and the price begins to creep up. This wine, Bila-Haut by Michel […]

German Wine

Selbach Oster Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett

January 16, 2017 Tim Lemke 0

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Wow, the name of this wine is a mouthful. Selbach Oster Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett. But a mouthful of this wine is a good thing. This is a style of riesling I often seek out because I think they go well with food pairings. It’s a “halbtrocken” which translates literally to “half dry” but I often […]

Chilean Wine

Frontera, After Midnight Red Wine

December 11, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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Chile is a great region for bargain-priced wines and hence I find myself reviewing a lot of wines from Chile. Some of them are great and some of them are meh! But what do you expect when you’re tasting the cheap stuff. And at $5.99 per bottle, this one is about as cheap as it […]

Italian Wine

Peter Zemmer, Rolhüt, Pinot Noir

November 27, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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Many casual wine drinkers I know only think of Tuscany when they think of Italian wine, but the number of different wine regions in Italy and the varying styles of wine you can get from those regions is mind blowing. While I have many “favorite” Italian wine regions, one of them that many Americans are […]

Italian Wine

La Bastarda Pinot Grigio – Crisp and Tangy

October 30, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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My experience with pinot grigio has been hit and miss. And when it comes to pinot grigio under $10 per bottle it is more often a miss than a hit. I would also say that wines with kitschy branding are more often misses than hits. With all of that bias to influence me I approached this […]

German Wine

Kruger-Rumpf, Rockin’ the Trocken Riesling

October 15, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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A couple weeks ago I wrote about Bex riesling from the Nahe region in Germany. It’s a region that produces phenomenal riesling and yet I’ve only written about those rieslings a handful of times in the 10 years I’ve been doing this. And here I am, two weeks later writing about another Nahe riesling. This one […]

German Wine

Becker Landgraf, Gau-Odernheim Spätburgunder

October 9, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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I’ve often heard people say you can’t find good, low-cost pinot noir. I beg to differ. Most pinot noir lovers I know tend to fall into one of two camps: 1) California pinot noir fans, or 2) Burgundy pinot noir fans. Now there are going to be some stylistic differences between the two, which may […]

German Wine

Bex Riesling – Tasty Nahe Riesling

October 2, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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It’s time for another riesling review. Why? Because riesling is awesome! When it comes to awesome riesling, I mostly gravitate toward German riesling. Most of the German riesling I come across come from the Mosel or Rheinghau regions, but if you love riesling there’s another region of Germany you should know: Nahe. Residing along the banks […]

Grenache

Castillo de Monséran, Garnacha – A Tasty Bargain

September 18, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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Last Friday I joined an online tasting for #GarnachaDay. It’s a day when you can drink garnacha, just like any other day, except it’s called #GarnachaDay. It’s one of those special days invented by marketing/PR folks to give us a reason to talk about their wines. Seems as good as any other reason to taste […]

French Wine

Ferraton Père & Fils, Samorëns Côtes du Rhône, Rosé

September 5, 2016 Tim Lemke 0

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Summer is still with us and it’s still prime season to enjoy a rosé — although, I enjoy rosé year round. Some of the best rosé comes from the Rhône region in southern France. One of my favorite appellations there is Tavel, an appellation that creates only rosé and some phenomenal ones at that. But while […]

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