Looking for wine in Alberta? Go to Geoff Last is a longtime Calgary wine merchant, writer and broadcaster and a regular contributor to City Palate Magazine and other publications. Louis Bouillot Cremant de Bourgogne Cremant Brut Rose. It is made from Pinot Noir in the traditional Champagne method, offering up some spicy red fruits with a lively mousse with some toast and brioche notes. In a civilized world, decent bubbles are an essential part of any festivity and the Louis Bouillot is a really decent bottle of sparkling wine for the price. Louis Bouillot Cremant de Bourgogne Cremant Brut Rose - $23 Malbec is still going strong, mainly because of crowd-pleasers like this. This is a plush, rich style of Malbec loaded with dark cherry and chocolate notes along with some sweet vanilla attributed to the use of new oak barrels. The 1300 part of this equation refers to the altitude (in metres) of the vineyard in the Uco Valley region of Mendoza, Argentina. It is produced in the Languedoc appellation of Pays d’Herault mostly from Cinsault, a medium-bodied red built mostly on red fruits with a little licorice and spice, all in all quite a remarkable wine for the price. Īt $16 this tasty little red rules the cheap and cheerful roost. Article content Manoir du Carra Coteaux Bourguignons 2014. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It would be great with salmon or roast chicken. That’s why the 2018 Domaine Magellan Le Fruit Defendu is today’s WineSiders’ Wine of The Daywhat. It’s got a hint of garrigue, and a long, lingering refreshing finish.
Lovely flavors of raspberry and strawberry, some soft spice. It is a blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay - a style that is sometimes referred to as Passe-Tout-Grains in Burgundy - and it’s a really nice, soft chewy style of red wine with bright acidity and red berry fruit. The 2018 will take them there from the first sip. This wine has always been a great bargain and the new 2014 vintage is no exception. Manoir du Carra Coteaux Bourguignons 2014 - $24 If you are looking for a great, inexpensive Chardonnay, this is one to buy by the case. The wine is produced in the Cotes Catalanes region of the Languedoc/Roussillon region and offers notes of white peaches, brioche and minerals with a nice level of acidity. But every now and then there are exceptions to rules and this is one of them. There is a an ocean of Chardonnay out there in this price range but it must be said that most of it - while drinkable - is fairly bland and one dimensional as well as being over-oaked and over-manipulated, typically to compensate for the fact that the fruit comes from a high-yielding, unremarkable site. Article content Pietra Dolce Etna Rosso 2014. The wines from Sicily’s Etna region are on fire right now (pardon the pun) precisely because of wines like this. It dawned on us that this might just be the perfect pizza wine, a soft juicy red with great acidity in a core of cranberry/ cherry fruit. I was at Double Zero restaurant with the family last week and ordered a bottle of this to go with a couple of pizzas. All the trademarks of great Riesling are there stone fruits and citrus notes backed by lively acidity and enticing minerality. This one is fully dry, as is the trend these days, from one of Germany’s best producers situated in the stunning Mosel valley.
Other than beef and lamb it goes with just about everything and shines with things like seafood, Asian spices, pork, vegetarian dishes and so on. In terms of a food mate, no other grape offers the versatility of Riesling, period. Park Dr., PennsauN Dupont St., Wilmington, 87).This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Craig LaBan Le Fruit Défendu 2010 from Domaine Magellan, $13, at Moore Bros. Moore Bros., which hosts Lafon this weekend, sells it for a nice price, too. What he has produced there from old vines of well-pruned cinsault (a Rhône blending grape prohibited in the local official appellation - thus, "forbidden") is simply good drinking, a medium-weight burst of soft black fruit framed with juicy acidity and spicy tannins that make it a great burger wine. In this case, the vintner is Bruno Lafon, of Meursault's great Domaine Comte Lafon, who has brought his Burgundy know-how for fine wine to property near Montpellier in Pays d'Oc, a region better known for country juice. This 2010 vintage of Le Fruit Défendu ("the forbidden fruit") from Domaine Magellan in Languedoc is a prime $13 example of how nonclassified vin de pays can demand serious notice when the right winemaker (and the right grapes) are involved. Bargain wine and France are typically not mentioned in the same conversation, but the combination of a struggling euro and revived interest in overlooked regions have produced some seriously good buys.
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