Mmm, Pecorino! If you love Italian cheese or Italian food in general, your taste buds may be tingling at the mere mention of this earthy sheep’s milk cheese. Particularly if it’s Pecorino Romano. Hey! Did you know Pecorino is an Italian wine, too?
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Torre Raone Pecorino shows a pretty light-gold color. Pleasant lemon and lime aromas, ripe peach and a whiff of clover honey loft from the glass. Fresh and bright on the palate, a tart and fresh citric flavor comes in first, with a hint of fresh-fruit sweetness and pricky petillance following, briefly reminiscent of the Mexican soft drink Jarritos limón, but the sugary sensation passes quickly, leaving tart, palate-tingling acidity and whiffs of stony minerality that linger.
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Learn more about the Pecorino grape and find vendor and price information for other producers on Wine-Searcher here. Read article.
I can’t say that I’ve been following Vielle Ferme since the very start, as this most remarkable value in European red wines has been around since 1970.
But it wasn’t too long after that when I got my first taste of La Vieille Ferme (“The Old Farm”).
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La Vieille Ferme Rouge is a characteristic regional blend of Carignan, Cinsault, Grenache, and Syrah. The wine is a dark reddish-purple color, almost black at the center. Its cherry-berry aroma is ripe and fresh, focused on raspberry and strawberry with a back note of bing cherries. Its juicy mixed-berry flavor adds distinct tannins. Berries and sour cherries continue in a long finish with good fruit and acid balance, with firm tannins lingering.
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Check this link for more information about Famille Perrin, producers of wines from many Southern Rhône regions, including their sought-after Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pâpe.
Read more about Ventoux and discover vendors for dozens of wines of the region on this Wine-Searcher link. Read article.
Because of the pandemic, Neil Duarte wasn’t able to travel to Italy at all last year, so Italy came to him. Well, Italian wines, anyway. The Wellcom marketing firm helped him out by getting Italian wines to him. Recently he received some Mandrarossa wines, which he reviews in this article. Read article.
Have you ever tasted a St. Laurent? I’m sure some of you have, and you might be getting ready to fire off an email taking me to task for claiming that you’ve never tried it. But if this Austrian red grape is still a mystery to you, St. Laurent is well worth getting to know.
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A subtle but delicious delight at cool cellar temperature, Erich Sattler Burgenland St. Laurent is an Austrian red wine you’ll want to get to know. Dark reddish-purple in color, it offers appealing aromas of mixed black cherries, cranberries, a whiff of pomegranate, and an intriguing hint of woodsmoke. Bright, palate-cleansing, and dry, tart berry flavor framed by mouth-watering acidity.
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Follow this Wine-Searcher link for information about Burgenland and vendor information for wines of the region.
Click this link to read Wine-Searcher’s info page on the Saint-Laurent (Sankt Laurent) grape; page down to find vendor info for dozens of Saint-Laurent wines.
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Here, have a glass of Riesling! All right, how did that make you feel?
For many wine lovers, the white wines made from the Riesling grape, in Germany and elsewhere, can be hard to warm up to.
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A bowl of delicious white fruit offers itself in the appealing scent of this excellent pale-straw color “Dr. L” Mosel Riesling. Peach, apple, and honeydew melon scents invite a taste, which presents similar ripe and juicy fruit shaped by crisp acidity that holds its perceptible fresh-fruit sweetness in balance. Stony minerality and tart acidity takes over with lemon, lime, and tangerine zest in a very long finish. It’s good with food and an appealing sipping wine as hotter summer days approach.
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Check prices and find vendors for Loosen Bros. 2019 “Dr. L” Mosel Riesling on Wine-Searcher.com.
Follow this Wine-Searcher link to read about Germany’s Mosel valley and find vendors and prices for dozens of other wines from the region.
For more about Dr. Loosen and other wines from this property, click this Wine-Searcher link.
Finally, click here for Wine-Searcher’s broad overview of Riesling. Read article.
I think most readers know that I don’t accept free wine samples from wineries and distributors. Do I ever make an exception to this rule? Well … rarely. But only if I can earn it through honest work.
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