Mark visits with Gary Elliott of Driftwood Estate Winery in Driftwood, TX. The chat about the winery and 2 freshly bottled white wines. The 2011 Cuvee Blanc and the 2011 Muscat Canelli. Link for today’s show: Driftwood Estate Winery
In the video wine review, Mark celebrates Episode #200 with Ceci Barretto and Melissa Unsell from the only other wine blog in San Antonio, Vinously Speaking. This is the first of 3 reviews recorded in front of a live audience at Ceci’s wine shop Wine
In this video wine review, Mark reviews the 2008 Clos Triguedina from Cahors. He bought this at a wine shop during his trip to France in September. Link for today’s show: Jean-Luc Baldes – Producer of Clos Triguedina
This is part 2 in my series of blog posts about my trip to France. Now that I got my travel arrangements made, I needed to do some more planning. Going to Bordeaux during harvest can be an exercise in frustration to say the least.
In this video wine review, Mark reviews the 2004 Chateau Langoa Barton from Saint-Julien. He bought this at a wine shop during his trip to France in September. Link for today’s show: Chateaux Langoa & Leoville Barton
In this video wine review, Mark reviews the 2007 Chateau Tour Priban from Pauillac. He bought this at a wine shop during his trip to France in September. Link for today’s show: Chateau Tour Priban – This is the Wine Doctor’s Entry for the Chateau
In this video wine review, Mark reviews 3 wines for Thanksgiving. One is a traditional pairing from Beajolais; the 2009 Henry Fessy Beaujolais Villages. Another is a not so traditional wine; the 2009 Gravity Hills Vertigo. And for something for the French Harvest holiday of
In this video wine review, Mark reviews the 2008 Mouton Cadet Reserve from Pauillac. He bought this at a wine shop during his trip to France in September. Links for today’s show: Mouton CadetNicolas WineVinously Speaking
In this video wine review, Mark joins the Beaujolais Nouveau buzz and reviews 3 wines from Beaujolais. One is a Beaujolais Nouveau and the other two are Cru Beaujolais. The wines are the 2011 Georges Deboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau, 2009 Henry Fessy Régnié “Château des Reyssiers”,
OK, so it’s taken me a couple of months to actually start this series of posts talking about my trip to France in September 2011. This post will focus on the lead-up to the trip itself. The why and how to prepare and some hindsight
