Category Archives: red wine

Open That Bottle Night: finally, going with the 1994 Casa Ferreirinha Reserva

By Remy Charest | Published: February 26, 2011
I spent all week fretting about what I was going to pull from the cellar for Open That Bottle Night, the annual event created by former Wall Street Journal wine columnists Dottie and John, who are hosting the event tonight, live on Palate Press. Which is a central point of OTBN: stop wondering if it’s [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday 70: tempranillo blanco and other Spanish wonders

By Remy Charest | Published: February 16, 2011
I cheated a bit for this, the resurrection of Wine Blogging Wednesday, led by Catavino, on a request from WBW founder Lenn Thompson. As a relatively regular participant in WBW, and even host of a pretty successful edition, I’m happy to jump back in and rejoin this custom that was, for a while, honored more [...]
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Tasting Note: 2008 Altostratus Pinot Noir, Black Cloud Wine

By Remy Charest | Published: August 23, 2010
The people you meet on Twitter… One of the most interesting has certainly been Bradley Cooper, the man formerly known as Bradinator, who now tweets entirely from his BlackCloudWine account, the name of his most recent and most personal winemaking venture. Bradley is the winemaker at Township 7, a winery
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Tasting Note: Il Frappato 2007, IGT Sicilia, Ariana Occhipinti

By Remy Charest | Published: May 28, 2010
I’ve been a fan of Arianna Occhipinti’s wines for close to two years, now, since I tasted her nero d’avola, Il Siccagno, at Terroir SF, with a couple of friends I’d met at the first Wine Bloggers’ Conference (read the blog post, in French, right here). Since then, the wines have started to be imported [...]
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