Talomas and Kiraala were joint projects between Robert Mondavi of the USA and Rosemount of Australia before they scraped the project when Mondavi was sold to Constellation Brands in 2004. The remaining stocks were sold off quietly and I, liked the rest of the wine vultures in Vancouver, managed to get a case of the 2002 Syrah/Cab (as well as their Chardonnay/Viognier and Cab/Merlot). Good creamy blackcurrant cassis with cola were detected from the glass. Upon tasting, upfront and vibrant black currant, wild blackberry fruit emerged followed by spices and black pepper. The wine has good acidity and good backbone. This wine was reduced by the importer from $25 to $9 when the Talomas/Kiraala project was terminated. Definitely one of the biggest BARGAIN in my wine buying history! Drink it up in the next 2 to 3 years. (Rating 89-91 points) by Michael Lam of the Beverage Review.
The bottling line in a small ultra-premium boutique winery. When I say the wines are "hand-crafted", I'm not kidding... a four bottle filler (the smallest money can buy)... and every cork, capsule and label put on by hand one at a time.
Dragons Lair is Shiraz made in the French style, with a splash and a dash of Viognier picked on the same day. The varieties then co-ferment in the tanks, creating a full and balanced wine.
Wine making in Long Island.One of the important steps in wine making comes before the grapes are even picked. The winemakers job is to determine the correct time to pick the chardonnay, or viogneir grapes for optimal flavor. ClassicWines interviews the winemaker at Bedell Cellars in Long Island to find out the many determinations that a winemaker will make to bring you that wonderful glass of wine. http://www.ClassicWines.com
At the very end of a tank run, we have what I call the "ceremonial raising of the pump!". The hoses are drained, and it's the end of a bottling run. It's always a happy moment.
Judy, Gretchen, Nicole and Tracy harvest the 2007 Roussanne, which was severly impacted by the frost of Easter 2007. One of the "twins", local deer, gets into the vineyard through the open gate, causing a panic! Last year we had about three hundred cases of Viognier/Roussanne. This year we'll be lucky to get fifty.
Vins pour tous s'attarde cette semaine à un cépage moins connu des québécois, le Viognier, le vin blanc le plus proche des vins rouges.L'émission vous parvient de la fameuse fromagerie Fritz Kaiser. Voilà une opportunité de vraiment bien marier le vin et le fromage. Pourquoi pas une raclette ce soir ?Nous vous proposons aussi un reportage sur l'hydromel, depuis le Vieux Moulin de Ste-Flavie en Gaspésie. La capsule À la santé de la planète s'intéresse au recyclage des bouteilles de vin. Nous vous présentons finalement une entrevue exclusive avec le président de la réputée maison de vin Laroche.
Thokozani means "a celebration" and it is in this spirit that our project is launched with its central and crucial focus on training and development as an absolute necessity to the achievement of sustainable economic empowerment.
Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc may be your favorite California whites, but you're missing out on a world of taste if you haven't tried CA's other white wines. Wine Spectator tasting coordinator MaryAnn Worobiec shares a couple of her recent finds.
Ron uses a sharp hedging knife to manage the vine canopy. Many areas of the world use mechanical hedging machines to accomplish the same objectives. This is all hand work. See Ron parry and thrust like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean!
We were bottling the 2006 red Revelation blend... 1000 gallons of wine. When the power failure hit, only an inch of wine was left in the tank... if this had happened half an hour earlier we would have had to dump 25 gallons of wine down the drain. Good thing we started at 8 a.m. and took a short lunch! You need power for the pump, the capsule machine, the corker and the filler. So we really dodged a silver bullet! Dancing in the dark to clean up!
