Tag Archives: Wine Blogging Wednesday

WBW 55 Trial Run: North vs South in Radio-Coteau pinots

By winecase | Published: March 10, 2009
Periodically, I’m grabbed by the urge to pull a bottle out of the cellar, unplanned and by itself, not for a meal or special occasion. That’s how I wound up pulling out a 2005 Savoy pinot noir by Radio-Coteau, Eric Sussman’s winemaking operation in Forestville, California. Sussman, who started Radio-Coteau in 2002, learned the trade in [...]
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Wine Blogging Wednesday #52: an inexpensive organic red from Chile

By winecase | Published: December 10, 2008
When I heard about the theme for Wine Blogging Wednesday number 52, Value Reds From Chile, proposed by Tim of the Cheap Wine Ratings blog, I knew that it was right up my alley. After all, for Wine Blogging Wednesday #48, when Lenn Thompson asked us to go back to our roots, to the first [...]
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WBW 51: Madeiration in all things (Henriques and Henriques 1995 Single Vintage)

By winecase | Published: November 13, 2008
I really have to thank Joe Roberts, aka 1WineDude, for proposing this baked goods theme, about wines that have gone through the test of time and heat, and have only become all the better for it. Because when I tasted the Henriques & Henriques 1995 Single Harvest Madeira I chose for this edition of the [...]
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The Wine Case at 100

By winecase | Published: September 6, 2008
As I was checking out my blog stats, this week, on the Wordpress dashboard, a number caught my attention. A round number. 100, to be precise. That’s the number of posts that have come online on The Wine Case blog since I put it online a little over a year ago – on July 10, 2007, [...]
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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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