It may be kind of hard to believe but even after some six months this is only our second Spanish wine and our first Spanish white. Spain is of course a major wine producer. Marques de Riscal, the makers of the wine reviewed here, has been in business for some 150 years. In fact, last [...]

Very recently we reviewed a Chilean red wine that was made from a Bordeaux blend. Here we will review a Chilean Viognier white wine. For a relatively small country, Chile has many wine regions that are now developing their own personality. The wine reviewed below comes from the Colchagua Valley which is located about 80 [...]

In this article we are going to be tasting a rose wine, with a white name that comes from a red grape. Zinfandel is perhaps America’s only indigenous European-style grape variety. It makes fruity, powerful red wines. But it also is the source of White Zinfandel, an extremely popular rose wine that accounts for about [...]

This will be three inexpensive Italian wines in a row that we have reviewed. First was a rose, then a red, so why not a white? Umbria is in central Italy. This wine comes from Orvieto, a town near the Latium border and not that far from the Tuscan border. I bet that you can [...]

I don’t think I have to tell you about the beauty of the French Mediterranean, an area known affectionately as the "Midi". Unlike Tuscany, this fantastic region is not particularly well known for fine wines. Many of its wines are roses, best consumed on a terrace overlooking the sea. The grape Picpoul de Pinet is [...]

If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Rhone Valley region of southeastern France. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review one the area’s best-known wines, a white Chateauneuf-du-Pape that comes from some of the stoniest [...]

If you are in the mood for fine French wine and food, you should consider the world famous Burgundy region in eastern France. Although it’s fairly rare, you may even find a bargain. I hope you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a Chardonnay white wine coming from the [...]

We have recently been quite successful with South African wines, both bargain and organic. They have been quite good. But can such luck last forever? Fairview Trust is located on the south-west facing slopes of Paarl Mountain in the heart of the Paarl wine district, one of the best in South Africa. This land has [...]

Rioja is arguably Spain’s greatest wine region. To be more precise: Rioja is arguably Spain’s greatest red wine region. This region in northern Spain produces relatively little white wine and unlike the reds, Rioja whites rarely go for big bucks. Traditionally, Rioja whites were aged from 2-5 years in oak and were slightly oxidized. [...]

Would you believe that almost half of Sicily’s huge wine production is made from white grapes? Unfortunately not many of these wines are available in North America, at least not yet. So I have suggested fine or sometimes fair to middling white wines that come from other regions of Italy. All the more reason to [...]