In my continuing quest to educate us all on various wines, I want to introduce you to the Italian wine Barbera. Barbera (Barrr-beah-rra) is a red Italian wine grape that comes from the region of Piedmont in northwest Italy. There are primarily three Barbera wines: Barbera d’Alba, Barbera d’Asti and Barbera del Monferrato…
Barbera, Barbera del Monferrato, Barbera d’Alba, Barbera d’Asti, Italian wine, red wine
Not too many months ago I had the opportunity to purchase six different bottles of Italian wines from a national distributor. I am sharing my thoughts on one of those wines, the 1997 Ornellaia red wine, in this week’s blog. Ornellaia (pronounced o-nell-eye-ay) is one the iconic wine estates of Italy…
Bolgheri DOC, Italian wines, Ornellaia, red wine
While blending our 2016 Glenwood Cellars wines last year, I was presented with the opportunity to produce a Merlot, something I had never considered before. I knew that the popularity of Merlot had declined since the late 1990s…
2016, Ballentine, Bruce Devlin, Glenwood Cellars Merlot, Napa Valley wine, red wine
Over the years of writing my blog I have said many times the main purpose of the blog is to inform and educate all of us, myself included, on all things to do with wine. One of my fun topics and missions is to introduce you to different varietals of wine. In the past we have discussed Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Chablis and so on. Today I have selected a new wine/grape to report on called Grenache (pronounced “gra-nosh”) which is a relatively unknown grape in the United States…
Dark Star Cellars, Grenache, red wine
One evening several weeks ago I was rummaging around in my wine cellar looking for a bottle of wine to drink that evening and I came across a bottle of Three Clicks Malbec from Napa made by Bruce Devlin, one of our winemakers. I hadn’t had any Malbec recently so it quickly became…
2014 Achaval-Ferrer Finca Bella Vista Malbec, 2016 Cepas Privadas Limited Edition Argentinean Malbec, 3 Clicks, France, Malbec, red wine