Andy Abramson Forget Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange. Occupy: Grenache has taken over Vinisud with nearly every wine being poured being related to Grenache. Call it Blanc, gris or rouge and Grenache is being found everywhere at the every other year Grenache fete. And the Occupy Gang of Pour was out in force with dozens … Read more
Back in the 90s when I was authoring a series of email messages called "Road Reports" I was directed by an Alsatian region wine sales rep to try the wine of Vaquer when I was in Banyuls over my birthday that year. Over the years whenever I found a bottle of any of the exceptional … Read more
A new Languedoc discovery from the low hills of Gignac comes Domaine L’Hermas, and youthful winemaker Matthieu Torquebrau. He’s made two wines, a 2010 red from Syrah and Mourvedre that is well balanced, deeply knitted ad full on the mouth with black fruit and blueberry tastes. His 2011 white is a blend of Vermentino, Roussanne … Read more
Roussillion wine expert, author and friend Michel Smith has taken a page out of the book of others, and made a stunning all Carignan wine from grapes that come from vineyards that are over 60 years old. His Cotes des Catalanes wine named Puch, is forward and precocious but loaded with violets, black raspberry, sour … Read more
Domaine d’Aupilhac’s Sylvain Fadat is upgrading his winery look along with the ever improving wines. The 2011 Lou Maset red may be his best ever. Having been tasting it the last week almost every day I can only hold my breath for it to arrive in the USA. Syrah, Cinsault, Grenache, Carignan and Mourvedre are … Read more
I’m at one of the so called Offs the day before Vinisud begins in Montpellier France tasting wines well before lunch. The most interesting wines are coming not from the Languedoc but from Serbia, Portugal and Italy. Maybe they stand out because they are different, but my palate is telling me that variety is the … Read more
Great dinner last night at http://www.restaurant-delauzun.com/ in Gignac. I was very impressed with the wine list and the wine service. The front of house manager used to work at Terrasse de Mimosa in Montpeyroux so we had a nice catch up. Given the crowds for Vinisud will be likely finding their way here. I wanted to check out … Read more
I love Cinsault and regardless if the grapes are from Provence, the Rhone or the Languedoc, I constantly find that wines made from the obscure grape are always dreamy. I first fell in love with the grape when Bonny Doon's winemaker, Randall Grahm first came out with a DEWN wine made 100 percent from the … Read more
Since I'm heading to Portugal I was happy to read about yet another leading airport group's operations for WiFi being taken over by Boingo, a former client whom we worked with up through their IPO period. While Boingo users previously could roam onto the Portugal Telecom run hotspots, now it standardizes things and means that … Read more
LightSquared my be down for the count. While not a Joe Frazier or Larry Holmes style KO, it's looking more and more that the dream of multi-billionare hedge fund leader Phillip Falcone, may be going the way of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter or or worse, Sonny Liston. Yesterday the FCC said "no way" and now the … Read more
