So we figured the best way to determine just how good this wine is was to have our customers taste it blind beside the Parker 94-point 2010 Mas Romani “Black Slate” la Vilella Alta (a really good wine, too – now, alas, sold out)…and see which one they preferred.
2009 Celler Cal Pla Black Slate Porrera
Posted by Chrish Peel on 7/10/2012
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So we figured the best way to determine just how good this wine is was to have our customers taste it blind beside the Parker 94-point 2010 Mas Romani “Black Slate” la Vilella Alta (a really good wine, too – now, alas, sold out)…and see which one they preferred.
Wine 101 - The New Chardonnay Paradigm
Posted by Chrish Peel on 6/1/2012
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I had an epiphany recently. Reading the first edition
(1987) of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, I suddenly realized how Paul Cluver's
$20 Chardonnay had managed to not just win but to utterly dominate three
extremely important international wine competitions, wiping the floor with such
celebrated wines as Penfolds, Yattarna, and Leeuwin Estate Chardonnays five
times or more its price.
Featured Winery: Powers
Posted by Chrish Peel on 5/23/2012
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Powers has made – and has been recognized as making –
some of Washington’s finest wines (especially Cabernets) for decades. Yet they
still charge prices that would have been more than fair during the Carter
administration. Name another American winery - even one - that can say the
same.
