Entries from The Oenophile Network Wine Blog tagged with 'tasting'

Wine 2.0 - A terrific tasting event

A colleague of mine, Spencer Jackson, and I attended a great wine tasting event last night called Wine 2.0. Wine 2.0 was founded by Cornelius Geary and is run by Cornelius and Smoke Wallin. (Full disclosure, Cornelius's company, Radcru, is...

Tasting - Affordable - 2002 Réserve de la Comtesse, Pauillac (Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande)

The second wines from Pauillac can be affordable and delicious, even with todays sky-high prices. Pichon-Lalande, in particular, frequently produces very pleasing second and sometimes even third growth wines. They generally reflect the typical Bourdeaux character of cedar, smoke, black...