Drinkhacker

AUGUST 15, 2024

Bomfim is part of Portugal’s Dow group — known for its Port wines — which in turn is part of the sprawling Symington family. Unlike its better-known brands, Vale do Bomfim focuses exclusively on table wines — and affordable ones at that. Hearty and quite raisiny, this wine clearly hails from the land of Port.

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Wine 93

Drinkhacker

MARCH 4, 2024

Maturing in 100% French oak for 18 months, the wine presents bold notes of spiced plum and dark chocolate at the forefront. As the wine evolves in the glass, it reveals deeper layers of complexity, with currant notes, a subtle hint of smoked sage, and blackberry that is muted at first but gradually builds in intensity with time.

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Wine 90

Drinkhacker

APRIL 9, 2024

B+ / $26 / mascotavineyards.com The post Review: 2020 Mascota Vineyards Unanime Malbec appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking. It pairs quite well with grilled dishes during the summer months but could also complement a quality block of Cheddar or Gouda beautifully regardless of the season.

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Wine 104

Drinkhacker

JUNE 7, 2024

Il Blu — denoted by its blue label — is the wine that “put Brancaia on the map.” Never even remotely sweet, this is a brooding wine for a serious meal, silky but dense and, ultimately, quite weighty. Pair it with a meal of the appropriate gravity and you’re in for quite a night.

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Wine 88

VinePair

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

One would assume that the countries that drink the most wine in the world would remain pretty enthusiastic about the beverage, but this year, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Wine Industry Report , sharing current data on wine trends, including a list of the top 10 countries that consume the most wine. is the No.

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Drinkhacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to someone’s lovely home in the central Kentucky countryside to enjoy an evening focused exclusively on wines from Napa’s Rutherford Valley. Quality was not in short supply, with many hard-to-find vintages or bottles attainable in highly specialized shops.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 17, 2024

Did you know you can get a merlot wine — 100% merlot — from Italy? The wine is rich on the tongue and lasting, with moderate but manageable tannins and a slightly gamy edge. The post Review: 2020 Famiglia Cotarella Sodale Merlot Lazio IGP appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking.

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Wine 85

Drinkhacker

MAY 27, 2024

As for white wines, they aren’t produced on the Right Bank — only the Left Bank makes these blends, which are built around sauvignon blanc, sémillon, and muscadelle. If you’re drinking White Bordeaux, it’s a Left Bank wine. Thoughts follow. Thoughts follow. A- / $35 The post Review: Left Bank Bordeaux from Ch.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 20, 2024

Generations later, they’ve diversified and now rely largely on wine as their primary export. A- / $38 / langetwins.com The post Review: 2020 LangeTwins Thirty Eight Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Jahant appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking.

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Wine 90

Drinkhacker

JULY 9, 2024

This bottle slipped through the cracks in our most recent roundup of top Virginia wines , so we’re making up for the oversight and covering it solo. A- / $41 / musevineyards.com The post Review: 2020 Muse Vineyards Petit Verdot Shenandoah Valley appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 14, 2024

These include the more traditionally styled Finca El Otero 2019 and the brand new contemporary El Espino 2020. All three wines are made from 100% Tinta del País. Ringed around the edges with baking spice, the wine avoids falling into an over-sweetened trap and allows touches of licorice and nutmeg to cling to the sides of the mouth.

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Drinkhacker

JULY 11, 2024

At the top of Stags’ Leap Winery’s mountain of Cabernet Sauvignon releases sits The Leap, a heavy-duty wine that, in this incarnation, is composed of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petite Sirah, 3% Malbec, and 1% Merlot. Top-notch stuff.

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Wine 84

Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Non-vintage Champagne—a blend of reserve wines and the current harvest—is often considered the entry-level wine for a Champagne house. The cuvée is comprised of 80 percent wine from a specific vintage and 20 percent of reserve wine. And only vineyards certified Sustainable Viticulture in Champagne (VDC) go into this wine.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 19, 2024

A- / $90 / elevenelevenwines.com The post Review: 2020 Eleven Eleven XI Cabernet Sauvignon Oak Knoll District appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking. The enduring finish is touched with notes of allspice and a shot of cherry juice.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 10, 2024

2020 Castello di Gabbiano Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG – Bright and immediately pleasing, this offers a classic Chianti experience with a brisk fruit profile of bold cherry notes tempered by a touch of orange peel, wet leather, and tobacco leaf. A- / $33 castellogabbiano.it

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Bottling Wine 95

Just Drinks

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Treasury Wine Estates has agreed to pay shareholders A$65m ($43.7m) in response to class action proceedings made against it in 2020.

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Wine 59

Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This wine is invariably a monster , and the 2020 vintage is no exception to that rule, Inky purple-black, it is initially slightly off-putting with its tarry notes of the blackest of berries and the darkest of chocolates — notes of blackened oak barrels and licorice candies never far from reach.

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Wine 75

VinePair

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s a new year and we’re eager to dive into the world of red wine — trying new bottles and revisiting some old favorites from the last year of tastings. Here at VinePair we try mountains of red wine every year and encounter so many different styles from juicy and chillable Gamay to tannic and earthy Bordeaux blends. It’s incredible.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 4, 2024

A return appearance of Beaulieu Vineyard on this site should not come as a surprise, given our track record of reviewing and enjoying the Rutherford-based vineyard’s diverse range of wines.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Agave for All seminar, brought to ELEVATE by Proximo Spirits and Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits, included an intro to tequila, including its origins from the agave plant and how it influences the industry today. By 2020, tequila’s market share was at an all-time high due to its popularity in the U.S. and around the world.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

2020 Echolands Rubrum – A Bordeaux blend, the wine is made with 40% Cabernet Franc, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, and 3% Petit Verdot. This wine pours dark, dark purple in the glass. The wine has good structure, with generous acidity and well-integrated tannins. Let’s give them a try.

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Wine 76

Cheers

MARCH 22, 2024

We asked the our national wine panel to taste and rate Old World wines from this past year. As always, these selections include brief tasting notes, a rating and the wine’s retail price (which can vary from store to store and market to market). Four Stars (91-86): A very good wine and an excellent value.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

After discovering a passion for wine in a small plate, Spanish & Italian-inspired restaurant, Gabriella briefly explored consulting and ventures outside the industry before returning to join the opening team at Flor, the second restaurant of the Lyle’s team. How concentrated is the wine? What is the dream wine for this dish?”

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Spiritz

MARCH 29, 2024

China has scraped tariffs on Australian wine. Australia and China are rebuilding trade ties after a period of strained relations which hit a low in 2020 after Australia called for an independent investigation into the origin of Covid-19. We welcome this outcome, which comes at a critical time for the Australian wine industry.

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Wine Bottling 94

Drinkhacker

APRIL 8, 2024

A- / $20 / trivento.com The post Review: 2020 Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec appeared first on Drinkhacker: The Insider's Guide to Good Drinking. This is most certainly ready to drink now and can work as a standalone but a rich, hearty pairing of food allows this to show off its versatility.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 13, 2024

We’ve covered wines from the sprawling Gonzalez Byass portfolio on many occasions, and today we look at a small collection of warm-climate bottlings, made alternately in Spain’s Ribera del Duero, Rioja and the Apalta region of Chile. A- / $28 2020 Primus The Blend D.O. All are very affordable. Let’s dive in.

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Wine Bottling 97

VinePair

MAY 20, 2024

Wine packaging has gone through a wild transition over the past two decades. The now-normalized staple, boxed wine , has found a home with college bag-slappers , casual restaurant BTG programs , and garage refrigerators worldwide. From our own research, we knew that demand for the bottles existed before its launch in 2020.”

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 8, 2024

Wines by Joe is a second label for Dobbes Family Wines — Joe being Joe Dobbes. These are Oregon-based wines from all over the state — and nothing in the mix priced above 20 bucks. We received a trio of wines from the current vintage for review. Thoughts follow. Thoughts follow. Great value.

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Wine 93

Cheers

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With many people drinking less overall, and generally drinking less wine than they used to, bars and restaurants need to pay close attention to their by-the-glass selection. What makes a wine a good contender to offer by the glass? We asked several on-premise wine professionals to share their current favorites. Classic Penedes.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Often, I’ve found that a large segment of customers lump Prosecco into the inexpensive, sweeter-styled sparkling wine categories, like Moscato d’Asti or fruit-based sparkling wines,” says Arielle DeSoucey, wine director at Tap and Bottle in Tucson, Arizona. More recently joining the party is Prosecco Rosé.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2024

The red wines of Portugal are a melange of relatively unfamiliar grapes, often joined together in blends that distinguish the country from so many other wine regions where single-varietal wines dominate. Some of the wines are still labeled as such.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

On his and the other organic vineyards from which he sources, he hand-harvests separate lots, then micro-ferments them with native yeast to create the palette of wines he blends for Cava in the off-grid cellar he built into the bones of a 19th-century winery on his estate. Still others labeled their wines D.O. In response, the D.O.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The hottest new wine of 2023 turned up the heat on the wine industry: Stella Rosa Pineapple & Chili, the first of three new additions to the company’s Spicy Series. The low-alcohol (5 percent ABV) wine blends Moscato d’Asti grapes with tropical fruit natural flavors and a distillate of Calabrian chilis.

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VinePair

JUNE 12, 2024

Summer is fast approaching, which means coolers around the country will soon be filled with rosés and crisp white wines to fend off the season’s inevitable heat. But this year, some wine-lovers will swap out the typical bottles of Sauvignon Blanc and Chablis for… red wine? So what makes a red wine chillable?

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VinePair

JANUARY 16, 2024

As discussed on a recent episode of the “ VinePair Podcast ,” white wine is on the rise (in no small part due to Taylor Swift’s love of the beverage). And it appears as if large companies have caught on, with several conglomerates b uying up white wine brands in anticipation of this trend continuing in 2024.

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VinePair

MAY 22, 2024

While Portugal is most famous for its Port , the fortified wine only begins to tell the story of Portuguese wine, with new interest in the country’s countless non-fortified offerings, both red and white. Still, beyond Port, wines from Portugal remain a footnote on most restaurant wine lists.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 2, 2024

Nested within California’s Paso Robles district along the Central Coast, Continental Vineyards (CV) is a sister label to Broken Earth Winery, releasing only wines sourced from its estate vineyards, produced in highly limited editions and only during exceptional vintage years. It will be well worth the wait.

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