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Three from Elyse Winery
Elyse Winery is best-known for its single-vineyard cabernet sauvignons and zinfandels, though what I review today are three excellent examples of its Rhone-style wines. Elyse was founded in 1987 by Ray...
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Renaissance Granite Crown 2005: Some Kind of Perfection
The surprise that came when I first received a bottle of the Renaissance Vineyard and Winery Vin de Terroir Granite Crown 2005, made by the winery in the North Yuba area of the Sierra Foothills, was...
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A Renaissance for Renaissance? Part I: The Cabernet-Based Reds…
I was privileged to be the only writer at an all-day tasting of the wines of Renaissance Vineyard and Winery last month, along with Darrell Corti, the esteemed retailer in Sacramento whose knowledge of...
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A Visit to Clos Saron and Gideon Beinstock
Though I have been writing about the wines made by Gideon Beinstock for 20 years, I met him for the first time three weeks ago at a dinner party in the Sierra Foothills, northeast of Sacramento. Around...
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A Renaissance for Renaissance? Part II: The White Wines
My Readers, about two weeks about I posted to this blog a piece that concerned the cabernet-based red wines of Renaissance Vineyards and Winery, tasted during an all-day event at the winery. Those red...
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A Grant Eddie Retrospective
The Grant and the Eddie of Grant Eddie Winery in North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, are Grant Ramey and Edward Shulten. Their label was called Ramey Shulten until a letter came from the well-known Ramey...
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50 Great Wines of 2014
Unbate your breath, My Readers, today I present the annual “50 Great Wines” entry, this edition for 2014. I posted to BiggerThanYourHead 135 times in 2014 and reviewed 582 wines. These 50 Great Wines...
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Ten Savory White Wines
As far as white wines are concerned, Spring and Summer tend to be the domains of bright, light, delicate wines that go down easy as aperitifs while we’re sitting out on the porch or patio or lounging...
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50 Great Wines of 2022
Here it is, the annual list of 50 Great Wines from whatever year is in question, this, of course, being 2022, just over and shuffled off to the filing cabinet of history. As I mention every year, this...
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Wine of the Day, No. 795
After all these years of reviewing wine, it sometimes feels as if I’m writing about the same wineries and producers over and over. Not complaining! Keep the samples coming! It is gratifying, though,...
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