I picked up this particular Malbec on a whim one day. I hadn’t seen it before and had never actually heard of it, but for some reason I decided to give it a shot, and I’m glad I did. The grapes in the Gouguenheim Malbec were grown in El Vallo Escondido, in the Tupungato Valley, […]
We taste a lot of different wines for this website and thanks to advances in the technology of winemaking over the past 20 years, we don’t come across a lot of total clunkers. There are plenty of wines that aren’t great, plenty that could be better… but most wines we come across don’t have me […]
Not so long ago, we reviewed the Alamos Chardonnay and now we’re taking another look at Alamos for their Malbec. Check out the Chardonnay review for a little background on Alamos, as I’m going keep this review short and get right to the wine. The 2008 Alamos Malbec isn’t 100% Malbec. There is a little […]
My favorite holiday is Halloween, even though I sometimes feel too old to celebrate it. And I was intrigued when I received samples of Halloween-themed wine from Elk Creek Vineyards. The labels are really cool, but the critical question is “how is the wine?” I have to admit that my expectations are low for wine […]
I’ve been sitting on a stack of Malbec reviews for a while, waiting to get enough done to do a good series on Malbec and it’s time to finally start posting them. Although, I’m sure I’ll break up the series with a couple other extraneous reviews I have in the works. Malbec, an inky, dark […]
It seems that every time I taste a wine from X Winery I can’t wait to taste the next one. And with the Red X, that tradition continues. Here’s a double review for you of both the 2006 and 2007 Red X, a red blend they produce that’s definitely worth a try. 2006 Red X […]
As an active wine blogger I get a lot of wine samples. Most of them are OK… decent wine but not spectacular, so I write reviews with my honest opinions and move on. But every now and then I come across a wine that I totally love. This is one such wine. After tasting a […]
Let me actually start this review with a disclaimer. There’s a lot of discussion among wine reviewers/wine bloggers about potential “conflict of interest” related to their reviews. The conflict scenario is typically an instance when a review is done for a wine and the reviewer has received something of value from the producer of the […]
I’m excited to be reviewing another French wine today as so often I’ve found that French wines are stylistically aligned to my taste preferences. This wine comes from the Corbières appellation in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in Southern France. This is along the Mediterranean Coast, south of the Cotes du Rhone region, where I’ve found many […]
The name on this wine is a new one, but the winemaker is not new to wine. Mark Gendron has been producing wine for a good 20 years and founded JanKris winery back in 1990. He recently sold JanKris and is working on some new winemaking ventures, namely JK Estates and Wildfire Cellars. Stray Dog […]
