Last week, wine writers and educators gathered for a lunch at Ristorante Tosca here in D.C. to meet with Matteo Bruno Lunelli and taste some exquisite Ferrari sparkling wines-not to be confused with the car company. Produced by his family’s Trentino, Italy-based winery, the Ferrari winery makes a lineup of first-rate traditional-method (bottle fermented) sparkling…
Chardonnay
Cupcake Vineyards’ Generous Portfolio
What does it mean to call a wine “generous” or “giving?” Ask Cupcake Vineyards’ winemaker Adam Richardson, who uses those words to describe his growing portfolio of wines. According to Richardson, Cupcake wines all share a similar appeal: a balanced style that makes it easy for new wine drinkers to transition from one Cupcake wine…
Napa Talent at Williamsburg Winery
If you haven’t sampled many Virginia wines in recent years, you should. The industry here has truly come a long way in the past several decades. Like any infant wine region, Virginia wines had humble beginnings, and many local wine lovers initially were not impressed. Some complained that the prices were too high. And many…
A Taste for the American Dream: Grgich Hills Chardonnay
With the independent film Bottle Shock now available on DVD, more people might be tasting the wines produced by the winery featured in the film—Chateau Montelena. The story in the film surrounds the historic Paris Tasting of 1976 at which California wines surprisingly prevailed in a blind tasting with some of France’s top wines. The…
