Vintuba TV -Review 2008 Veramonte Ritual Pinot Noir
ChrisO reviews the 2008 Veramonte “Ritual” Pinot Noir from Casablanca Valley Chile. See what cool climate, Paul Hobbs, Chile and value wine have in common.
Read more →Vintuba TV-Festivus 2009
Vintuba celebrates the season of Festivus. In the true Festivus spirit ChrisO continues the tradition of the “airing of grievances” and the “feats of strength”. What does this have to do with wine? Well you are just going to have to watch to find out!!!
Read more →German Eiswein (Ice Wine) Harvest 2009
What is Eiswein? Well, for those of you who might not be familiar with this beautifully aromatic and sweet dessert wine here is a little background.
Although Eiswein/Ice wine can now be had from regions around the world one could say that Germany is the re-birthplace if not the birthplace of this unctuous elixir. While Germany often gets the credit for creation of ice wine there are indications that frozen grapes were used to make wine in Roman times.
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Read more →Vintuba TV – Where do you buy your wine?
Vintuba TV – Where do you buy your wine? We are interested to know how many of you actually purchase your wine online?
Read more →The Magical World of Portuguese Wine
Entering wine country in Portugal is almost like being Alice falling down the rabbit hole. It’s a whole other world. It is also one of the most intriguing wine regions of the world.
Port wines have been famous for centuries, and its winegrowing area was one of the very first in the world to be legally limited by certain boundaries (called demarcation). Now Portugal’s wine producers are taking their table wines just as seriously as their fortified wines. And table wines from Portugal are among the top ten imports into the U.S. There are roughly 230 grape varieties grown here.
Read more →The de-Snobbing of wine (let’s discuss)
I read many blog post daily and I would say 90% claim to be bringing wine to the common folk, de-mystifying it, de-snob it, etc… Ok so this is a good thing I guess. Right?
Read more →Podcast 20 True value wines under $25
In podcast 20 JonM and I explore some value wines under $25 from Argentina, California, and Oregon. When we say “value” we by no means mean cheap, but what we do mean is a wine that delivers way above their price point. We think we found some wines that you are going to like. We also discus some of the limitations of wine retailers and the very arcane system of wine distribution in the US.
Read more →Video-A slow whine about slow wine
A recent blog post on 1winedude.com got me thinking! You have heard of the slow food movement but is there a wine equivalent? Have speed tastings (the wine world’s take on speed dating) and TasteLive become the MCDonalds’s equivalent to wine, resulting in a “fast wine” experience? Is this really what wine is about?
Read more →To cork or not to cork? – that seems to be the question
At present each closure occupies only a certain market segment: natural cork the premium and super-premium, technical cork the sector just below, synthetics the lower-priced sectors. The only closures making progress across various segments are screw cap and Vino-Lok.
Read more →Podcast 19 Two Guys and a “Date Night” Cabernet
What happens when you have ChrisO and JonM separated by 2,000 miles and you add a organically grown cabernet sauvignon from Napa? Why a “Date Night” of course. Listen in and learn…
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