Category Archives: organic wine

Tasting notes: Le Clos Jordanne, Le Clos Jordanne Vineyard 2006 chardonnay and pinot noir, Twenty Mile Bench

By winecase | Published: April 19, 2009
I’ve been a fan of Le Clos Jordanne wines since their first release, the 2004 vintage, two years ago. Made from young vines, they may not have had the depth of great wines, but they certainly showed the promise. It was terrific to taste pinot noir that from the Niagara that had such a clear [...]
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It's not easy being green: a post about Bordeaux, carbon and biodynamics

By winecase | Published: November 25, 2008
Two relatively unrelated bits of reading got me going on the whole question of wine and the environment, yesterday. The first one was a  Decanter News item about the Bordeaux wine industry’s Carbon initiative, and the steps it was proposing to curb the region’s greenhouse gas emissions (thanks to Tim, from Winecast, for tweeting it). [...]
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Tasting Note: Melon 2003, Deux Vert Vineyard, Yamhill County, La Bête

By winecase | Published: July 8, 2008
Melon from Oregon? Now that’s a wine that could qualify for Wine Blogging Wednesday 47, whose theme is “Brought to You by the Letter S”. ‘Cause it’s oh, so Surprising. But no, I have another idea for WBW 47 that I will be posting later today, and for which the letter S is a much clearer [...]
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Biodynamics: up front or backstage?

By winecase | Published: April 18, 2008
I’m a huge fan of a great number of biodynamic wine producers, and several “natural wine” producers, this last category essentially meaning that they are not only made from organic grapes, but also totally free of added sulfur, a widely-used stabilizer (For a quick description of the various types of bio wines, click here). Very [...]
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Tasting note: Petalos 2006, Descendientes de Jose Palacios

By winecase | Published: December 22, 2007
I’d been waiting for months for this wine from Bierzo to reappear on the shelves. I discovered it during a tasting on Spain’s “emerging” wine regions, where this cuvée made from 100% mencia, an almost-forgotten grape variety apparently related to cabernet franc (or maybe Portugal’s jaen – it’s unclear), was a star of the evening. [...]
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