“Fine wine wine on a small scale” is how Kip Kumler (left) owner/winemaker at Turtle Creek Winery in Lincoln, Massachusetts describes his operation. The 900 cases produced there certainly fit the ‘small scale’ description. And anyone who has tasted some of Kip’s better efforts knows that the ‘fine wine’ part is also completely legit. The…
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Island Creek Oyster Bar’s Rusty Whites
A series of conversations issuing from our post last week on whether oxidation should be routinely classified as a wine fault resulted in an invitation from Kenmore Square’s Island Creek Oyster Bar to drop by and taste what they refer to as their ‘rusty whites.’ Seven wines on offer here are made in a self-consciously…
Robert M. Parker, Jr. to be replaced by clueless Chinese billionaire
Yes, it could be one of those double-take inducing headlines from the Onion, but then it wouldn’t be true and Jane Anson says it is. Anson is a Bordeaux-based wine and travel writer who blogs about the world’s most interesting wine region at newbordeaux.com. Her site also offers essay-length treatments of subjects no one takes…
Well, we smelled it . . . and we liked it
Mary Orlin (aka The Wine Fashionista), had a little tutorial on the Huffington Post yesterday entitled “The six aromas you don’t want to smell in your wine.”. According to the author, the post had its origin in a course T.W.F. took at the Culinary Institute of America called “The sensory analysis of wine,” where students…