Wednesday night, July 21st, 2010, we attended the annual blind tasting challenge held at Chris Hinton’s Bin 75 tasting room in Johns Creek. It is the mid-week event during their anniversary sale, which nets you 20% off cases of wine. You can also score some wines at 25% off solid cases. Check the website...
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Adam Richardson’s first love is flying, earning his pilot’s license before his driver’s license. Before he became a winemaker, he was a lieutenant aviator in the Royal Australian Navy. He flew helicopter search and rescue missions for 8 years before making a dramatic change in careers, entering the world of the vine. “You can...
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While I missed out on the mass online tasting of Sauvignon blancs on Twitter last week, I did manage to open a couple of sample bottles I’d received. FULL DISCLOSURE: Both Sauvignon blanc wines talked about in this post were given to me as samples. We were invited to some friends for a dinner...
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Every once in a while, you meet someone who really makes you think. Steven Canter, the wine maker for Quivira, is such a person. I always liked to meet wine makers when I was a retail buyer, much more so than the PR / marketing folks. I enjoyed shaking hands and sharing wine with...
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Neil Ellis named this wine Sincerely as a tribute to Sancerre, a region in France known for world class Sauvignon blanc. Nowadays, you probably associate one of the parental grapes to Cabernet Sauvignon (lock that away in the useless trivia box) more with New Zealand than South Africa, but doing so means you are...
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