100% Tempranillo. Aroma: Warm and effusive black cherry and lots of it! Secondary notes of blackberry. Tertiary notes of milk chocolate. Palate: Cherry, blackberry with some raspberry and black licorice. Some chalky tannins. Full mouth feel. Easy drinking but a wee bit hot. Too bad the alcohol is up at 14%. Personality: I am aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Izadi 2019 Reserva Rioja”
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RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone’s Canadian Cabernet Franc
Not willing to speak in absolutes but chances are a Cabernet Franc from Ontario seldom steers you off the cliff but don’t let me be your GPS on this! We try a Featherstone 2020 Cabernet Franc from Ontario’s Niagara region. 2129 cases mean an ample supply for domestic consumption.5% Merlot in the blend. Aged inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone’s Canadian Cabernet Franc”
RKS 2024 Wine: An Argentinian Red Blend from the End of the World
Odds are if you are at the end of the world conditions could be such one cares more about surviving than drinking an excellent wine? I have been to the end of the world in Portugal but not in Argentinian Patagonia. In a fancy, possibly gimmicky and monstrously heavy bottle, we have a blend ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: An Argentinian Red Blend from the End of the World”
RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2023 Rosé from Niagara Peninsula
Always excellent. Drinkable all year round straight up or with food. Time to try their 2023 vintage. A blend of Gamay, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir. Aroma: Fully ripe raspberry, strawberry and Thames River Farms sugar babe watermelon. This rosé is what you might call fruit expressive! Palate: Smooth with some raspiness on the backContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2023 Rosé from Niagara Peninsula”
RKS 2024 Wine: German Pinot Noir: Attractive Price But Quality?
At $21 the 2021 Ruppertsberger Imperial Pinot Noir Trocken is at an attractive price but its quality? Aroma: No doubt this is a Pinot Noir or as they say in Germany Spätburgunder! Raspberry, cherry and a tad of strawberry jam. Palate: A jolt of kirsch mixes it up with raspberry. The fruit is a bitContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: German Pinot Noir: Attractive Price But Quality?”
RKS 2024 Wine: Jean-Maurice Raffault Chinon from the Loire
Ontario is a province in Canada producing excellent Cabernet Franc in Niagara, Lake Erie North Shore and Prince Edward County so theoretically there is no need to look to Chinon in the Loire for good Cabernet Franc but to escape being labelled as unadventurous one may wish to try a French version of Cabernet FrancContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Jean-Maurice Raffault Chinon from the Loire “
RKS 2024 Wine: Caught in the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc Groove (or trap?)
Many wine drinkers hear “Sauvignon Blanc” and their mind races to New Zealand. Whether the Sauvignon Blanc fad has faded is not apparent but what is apparent New Zealand is enjoying the ride on its tail and why not! Of course, or maybe not of course, you are aware Bordeaux produces some Sauvignon Blanc ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Caught in the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc Groove (or trap?)”
RKS 2024 Wine: A Ritzy Montreal Pinot Noir from Westmount from the Tête Carrée!
We try a Westmount Willamette Valley Pinot Noir from Oregon. Westmount is a ritzy suburb of Montreal perched along Mont Royal. The home of the wealthy English sometimes referred to as Tête Carrée by the plebeians down below. So seeing a Pinot Noir from Westmount Vineyard and having travelled through Westmount countless times when livingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Ritzy Montreal Pinot Noir from Westmount from the Tête Carrée!”
RKS 2024 Wine: Does a Boggled Mind Benefit from a Bogle Family Vineyards Pinot Noir?
At the Hot Docs film festival winds down I have saved the most depressing films for last and as a film reviewer of documentary films when I say depressing I mean it. On my bitter end list is the story of a 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl, whose mother has died frozen to death in someContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Does a Boggled Mind Benefit from a Bogle Family Vineyards Pinot Noir?”
RKS 2024 Wine: Château Terre Blanque 2020
A blend of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon from Blaye. Aroma: It shouts out Merlot not lush and plush but clean and sharp. Full of cheerful cherry with lesser notes of blackberry and blueberry very high toned and alert and not sullied by an excess of oak. Palate: Broad based tannins. Clean and sharp cherry withContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Château Terre Blanque 2020”
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