andychalk 3 days ago 1 min A-List Scotch Tasting Is February 6th by Andrew Chalk How would you like to: Taste these Scotch whiskies Ardbeg 10 Year (Islay Region) Springbank 10 Year (Campbeltown Region) ...
andychalk 4 days ago 1 min Kim McPherson: Pioneer and Standard-Bearer of Texas Wine by Andrew Chalk See the full story here.
andychalk 4 days ago 2 min WINE REVIEW: Taylor Fladgate 2015 Late Bottled Vintage Porto, Portugal ($22) by Andrew Chalk The finest expression of Port, the fortified wine from Portugal that sells the world over, is vintage port. However, it t...
andychalk 6 days ago 1 min WINE REVIEW: Prats & Symington, 2017 Prado de Roriz, Douro, Portugal ($17) by Andrew Chalk While Port, the fortified wine from Portugal’s Douro region, has a worldwide market Portuguese table wines are more of a ...
andychalk Jan 15 3 min WINE REVIEW: Georges Duboeuf 2020 Beaujolais Rosé Nouveau ($13) by Andrew Chalk From the wires…. It’s Time to Celebrate With Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau The First Wine of the Harvest “est arrivé...
andychalk Jan 14 1 min WINE REVIEW: Trapiche 2015 Iscay Malbec Cabernet Franc, Mendoza Argentina ($55) by Andrew Chalk Combining leading, experienced winery Trapiche with the tastiness of Argentine-grown Malbec and the particular singularit...
andychalk Jan 13 3 min Catching Up with Rodney Strong by Andrew Chalk Staying in touch with wineries has become a Zoom experience in the last nine months and I was fortunate to catch Rodney S...
andychalk Jan 12 1 min WINE REVIEW: Gonzales Byass Tio Pepe Fino Ram, Jerez, Spain ($17 for 375ml) by Andrew Chalk Make friends with sherry. It is, to use an overworked word in the post-Khardashian era, unique. You cannot mistake a sher...
andychalk Jan 11 1 min WINE REVIEW: Ron Yates 2016 Tempranillo ‘The Ghost’, Estate Grown, Texas Hill Country ($∞) by Andrew Chalk A one-off Tempranillo aged in 100% new French oak from Boutes. This opaque ruby and plum colored wine has an intense nose...
andychalk Jan 8 1 min WINE REVIEW: Couvent des Thorins 2018 Moulin-à-Vent, France ($27) by Andrew Chalk I am really excited to see this wine, and especially to hear that it is now available in Whole Foods. That should make it...
andychalk Jan 7 2 min WINE REVIEW: Mullan Road Cellars 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, WA ($45) by Andrew Chalk This blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc is important for two reasons. First, it is the f...
andychalk Jan 4 1 min WINE REVIEW: Fetzer 2019 ‘Valley Oaks’ Pinot Grigio, California ($15) by Andrew Chalk Fetzer, a pathfinder in sustainable wine agriculture here presents a fresh and accessible white wine. The nose exhibits p...
andychalk Dec 31, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEW: Two Moet & Chandon Champagnes for New Year by Andrew Chalk If you are celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends these wines will enhance it. If you are socially distancing on your ow...
andychalk Dec 30, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEW: The Prisoner, 2019 Chardonnay, Carneros, Ca. ($39) by Andrew Chalk This Chardonnay is firmly in the New World idiom with new French oak and tropical fruit in the nose. Pineapple and mango ...
andychalk Dec 29, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEW: Angelini 2019 Moscato D’Asti, DOCG, Italy ($14) by Andrew Chalk A sweet and lightly sparkling wine with a fair amount of sweetness. Ideally paired with sweet desserts. Sample.
andychalk Dec 28, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEW: Les Dauphins 2018 Côtes du Rhône Rouge, France ($11) by Andrew Chalk This wine of 80%+ Grenache and the remainder Syrah is an example of red Côtes du Rhône at its best. For a bargain price t...
andychalk Dec 7, 2020 3 min Texas Wine Wins Double Gold at the San Francisco International Wine Competition! by Andrew Chalk From media wires... For the second consecutive year, Ron Yates has been awarded with a prestigious Double Gold medal at t...
andychalk Nov 27, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEW: Robert Mondavi 2018 Chardonnay, Napa, CA ($25) by Andrew Chalk A Chardonnay in the restrained style of other Mondavi wines. Definitely New World, definitely Californian with tropical f...
andychalk Nov 26, 2020 2 min WINE REVIEW: Double Diamond 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon, Oakville, Napa, CA ($80) by Andrew Chalk A label of Schrader Cellars and made by their winemaker, Thomas Rivers Brown, whose name features prominently on the bott...
andychalk Nov 25, 2020 1 min WINE REVIEWS: Marques de Casa Concha, 2018 Carménère, D.O. Puemo, Chile ($20) by Andrew Chalk Carménère is the closest thing that Chile has as a national grape and Marques de Casa Concha is a premium brand of Concha...
andychalk Nov 24, 2020 1 min Scharffenberger ‘Brut Excellence’ Sparkling Wine, Mendocino County, CA ($20) by Andrew Chalk The cool northern California county of Mendocino provides the grapes for this wine made by one the country’s best sparkli...
andychalk Nov 22, 2020 2 min Wine Serving Rituals - One That We Ought To Adopt by Andrew Chalk Lettie Teague writes the Saturday wine column in The Wall Street Journal. There is no single publication that gets deeper...
andychalk Nov 18, 2020 3 min Doing Acrobatics With Oregon Wine by Andrew Chalk When a large organization has or acquires a small winery as part of its portfolio you always worry that quality will go d...
andychalk Nov 13, 2020 2 min New Version of Wine Selection Program Allows Users to Select Wine From Black-Owned Wineries From the wires…. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 09, 2020 Sippd has launched a new feature allowing users to browse a compilation of Black-ow...