$10 wine
Sometimes, one forgets old friends. Not intentionally, of course, but because of the press of business and the rush of life. There are new wines to try and more posts to write, and[...]
07 Nov 2012
Yellow + Blue makes some of the finest cheap wine in the world, and I’ve waxed poetic about almost every one of the company’s releases. The torrontes ($13 for a 1-liter[...]
29 Aug 2012
I have written more than 200 wines of the week over the last four years, and none has been a bigger surprise than this. Cellar No. 8 wines are about as ordinary as possible, the ki[...]
13 Jun 2012
Meridian’s wines make are enough to make a wine writer crazy. Sometimes, they’re really, really well done, and do things like make the $10 Hall of Fame. Other times, th[...]
16 May 2012
During a #winechat discussion last week about local wine, one of the questions I got was how regional wine producers could make it easier for Americans to drink wine that[...]
11 Apr 2012
There are a couple of importers whose wines are so trustworthy that I will buy them regardless of what’s in the bottle. Kermit Lynch, of course, for French wine, and Ole Impo[...]
04 Apr 2012
So much for wondering about the quality of California wine. Or thinking that wine prices were going to increase this year. Which says pretty much everything that needs to be said a[...]
07 Mar 2012
This wine cost nine bucks. How do the Italians do it? Their economy is in shambles and the euro is killing the dollar. If this was French wine, it would cost $15 or $18. I’m [...]
22 Feb 2012
I have always wondered how to approach Chianti, which is not only the one Italian red wine that most Americans know, but the one Italian red wine that wine snobs turn their noses u[...]
11 Jan 2012
This white blend from Bordeaux has been in and out of the $10 Hall since I started it 10 years ago — but not because of quality. Rather, what once was a $10 wine ha[...]
04 Jan 2012
Some of you might think I don’t like California wine, given how often California wine comes in for criticism. Nothing could be further from the truth. I dislike dishonest and[...]
21 Dec 2011
The Spanish have been making vin ordinaire for what seems like forever, but given that Spanish wine has traditionally been overlooked in the U.S., the only cheap Spanish table wine[...]
14 Dec 2011
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