Category Archives: Wine

RKS 2024 Wine: The Great Lambrusco Fright: The Bad Boy of Italian Wine?

I can’t see any customer lining up to purchase the latest release of Lambrusco. I suppose there is a very high percentage of wine drinkers who might think Lambrusco is the current Prime Minister of Italy. At times the stark purpleness of Lambrusco could send a wine drinker into the horror zone. On the otherContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: The Great Lambrusco Fright: The Bad Boy of Italian Wine?”

RKS 2024 Red Wine: A Bordeaux from a Co-Op: “Bois Royal”

Looks like there are co-operatives in Bordeaux and a “Bois Royal” emanates from one of them. At $15 it is not going to break the bank. Aroma: Lots of cherry. Some blackberry, black cherry and chocolate wafer cookies. Hints at immediate approachability. Palate: On the light side not necessarily a strike against it. Should allContinue reading “RKS 2024 Red Wine: A Bordeaux from a Co-Op: “Bois Royal””

RKS 2023 Wine: 3 Red Wine Clunkers of 2023

Nor’Wester by Greystone Pinot Noir 2020 (New Zealand) 55 Vina del Pedregal 2018 Kidia Reserve Carmènére (Chile) 56 Meia Serra Jaen 2018 Casa Santos (Portugal) 59

RKS 2024 Porthead Alert: Croft Reserve Tawny Port:

Not to augment my authenticity but I am a knight in Portugal without a castle. Yes I am in the army of the Port Brotherhood. That is a very long story. It started with coverage on Portuguese television in 2014. Psychedelic berries, precipitous cliffs, poetry at 02:00 at Quinta Vargellas, 250 Ports in 6 days,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Porthead Alert: Croft Reserve Tawny Port:”

RKS 2024 Wine: One Disaster Should Not Lead to a Global Taint

In these days the corporate and governmental fantasy of Global Inclusion runs amok and in real terms necessitates Global Exclusion of others. So I had a bad experience a few months ago with a New Zealand North Canterbury Pinot Noir by the name of Nor’wester. A disaster but I do not need the Global InclusionContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: One Disaster Should Not Lead to a Global Taint”

RKS 2024 Wine: A Beaujolais Cru from Nicolas Potel

As far as official classifications and the textbooks read the 10 Beaujolais Cru’s rank over Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages. The Nicolas Potel 2022 Fleurie Cru du Beaujolais then should be put to test about how it justifies the textbooks! Aroma: A lively melange of raspberry, cherry, milk chocolate and vanilla. Palate: Crafted in a subtleContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Beaujolais Cru from Nicolas Potel”

RKS 2023 Wine: Best Whites of 2023

Meyer Family Vineyards 2022 Okanagan Valley Gewürztraminer (Canada) 94 Cline 2021 North Coast Viognier (United States) 94 Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate 2020 Grand Reserve Chardonnay (Canada) 93 Malivoire Estate Grown Chardonnay 2019 (Canada) 91 Dough California 2020 North Coast Chardonnay (United States) 91 Casa Dea 2021 Melon de Bourgogne (Canada) 91 Stag’s Hollow 2022 Tragically VidalContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Best Whites of 2023”

RKS 2023 Wine: The Clarity of Organic Wine: Southbrook Triomphe Gamay from Niagara

If there is a constant impression I receive from organic wines it is they have a pureness and clarity to them. They are sharp and lively. It is not a question of omnipresent superiority. Many non-organic wines taste like they are dead and terribly blunt and dull. Constant soil abuse through spraying and use ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Clarity of Organic Wine: Southbrook Triomphe Gamay from Niagara”

RKS 2023 Wine: A Toast to the Disappearing Middle Class of North America and EU: To the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Please Note We Weren’t Born Yesterday!

Artificial Intelligence has a bit of a double-edged sword. AI will decimate the middle class if it has its way. What a profit seeking corporation needs is rock bottom low labour costs. Eliminate costs, increase profitability and pump-up bonuses to the “senior management team” and throw a few extra pesos to shareholders. Worth celebrating forContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Toast to the Disappearing Middle Class of North America and EU: To the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Please Note We Weren’t Born Yesterday!”

RKS 2023 Wine: We Aren’t Impressed by That Gold Medal Seal and a 92 jamessuckling.com or are We?

Hopefully wine drinkers are not swayed by a “Gold Medal” seal and a 92 James Suckling seal on the bottle of the Knappstein Clare Valley 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon. There is nothing inscribed on the “Gold Medal” seal to indicate who issued it. Could it be from some children’s colouring book? As for a jamessuckling.com 92Continue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: We Aren’t Impressed by That Gold Medal Seal and a 92 jamessuckling.com or are We?”