Category Archives: wine review

Generation Seven 2012 Nouveau: A Wine Review and Further Thoughts on Nouveau Wines

By Remy Charest | Published: December 2, 2012
I’m a little late to the party, with this, but I really liked the Generation Seven Nouveau, a young, 2012 gamay produced by the Bosc family, the folks at Château des Charmes. It was released on November 15, the Thursday on which Beaujolais Nouveau is also unleashed on the wine-drinking world. Why produce a Nouveau when [...]
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This post is pointless – and so is the rest of this blog

By Remy Charest | Published: October 9, 2010
I don’t believe in points. That’s why there are no points or other ways of scoring in my tasting notes. I think they’re more confusing than helpful, and that their reliability is so low as to render them useless. That’s why I never used any scoring system for reviewing wines on this blog, and never will. One [...]
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Blogging Live from Santa Rosa, CA

By winecase | Published: October 24, 2008
Well, here we are. A whole bunch of bloggers, usually glued to their screen, pretty much alone in their office (or kitchen, or television room), writing for people from often far away, are gathered for the weekend in Santa Rosa, at the heart of Sonoma. We’ll still be glued to our screens, but all together [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday (aargh… Thursday, again) #45: Old World Riesling

By winecase | Published: May 8, 2008
I like riesling more than I think I do. What I mean to say is that as I pondered the theme of the May Wine Blogging Wednesday and tried to choose an Old World riesling for this contribution, I kept thinking about the many ways in which I’d enjoyed it, just over the last few months: [...]
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