Category: Delicious

'After an intense, three-day blind tasting of top 2006 red burgundies, Jancis Robinson finds that Nuits-St-Georges, which showed real savour and raciness, is by far the best-value appellation'

'Edward Deitch enjoys Wairau River Wine’s sauvignon blanc and pinot noir'

'Don't look now, but malbec is gaining ground. Once grown extensively in Bordeaux, this often overlooked and fickle grape variety has put Argentina on the map in recent years.'

'In a tasting recently of 20 bottles of red from the Languedoc, the wine panel found them still to be all over the place stylistically. But the level of high quality in the winemaking was unexpectedly consistent.'

'This year, the nominations from our 33-member panel of top sommeliers and retailers read like a Who’s Who of American wineries and winemaking talent. By the end of our final blind tasting, Food & Wine’s 12th annual American Wine Awards included winners in 20 categories (new this year: Pinot Gris/Pinot Grigio and Rhône-Style White).'

'While American Chardonnay has produced many of the memorable wine moments of our lives, our tastings have shown it has fallen to a bad place in the past decade.'

'The 2000s may not be quite as dense as the 2005s, but they have a touch of the ripeness of 1990 with more structure – an appealing combination.'

'The wine was the 2006 Estate Grenache from the Clos La Chance winery on the Central Coast, and it was, from the first taste, superb.'

'Gary Vaynerchuk, the quirky webcaster at winelibrarytv.com, is a New York Jets superfan. We challenged him to find three affordable bottles to complement quintessential tailgating foods.'

'Alsace Riesling can show a remarkable range of aromas and flavors, with fruit notes ranging from apple and citrus to stone fruits, along with accents of flowers, flint, freshly cut grass, fennel and honey.'