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With so much to do at the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival you just can’t get to all of it, but we certainly gave it our best this year. One change that helped along those lines was the move of the Saturday and Sunday seminars into the Chinese Tea House, right there on the Continue reading James Bond, Terroir and Salumi – Review of the Seminars at the 2014 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/wine-spectator-recognizes-casey-flat-ranch-finally/ 
We’ve been ranting about Casey Flat Ranch wines for over a year now. Their 2010 Estate Red is one of our favorite wines anywhere, period. Their 2012 CFR Sauvignon Blanc got us drinking white wine again, and now it’s spreading (go figure!). We love just about everything they make, and think they’re all great values. Continue reading Wine Spectator Recognizes Casey Flat Ranch – Finally https://www.redwineplease.com/even-more-good-value-wines-from-portugal/ 
We’ve been reporting on our recent excursions into the Portuguese wine market, and have been uncovering some pretty screaming values along the way. You can read about our earlier experiences here and here. In this blog we’ll share three more wines that have stood out, and this time the reds actually include Touriga Nacional in Continue reading Even More Good Value Wines From Portugal https://www.redwineplease.com/wines-of-antinori-tasting-at-gasbarros-october-2014/ 
Here we report on yet another outstanding wine tasting hosted by Mark Gasbarro, of Gasbarro’s Wines on Federal Hill in Providence. This time the wines belong to the Antinori Family. Ten wines were open and pouring, and Marco from Antinori was manning the table with the big guns. I started, appropriately, with the whites and Continue reading Wines of Antinori Tasting at Gasbarro’s – October 2014 https://www.redwineplease.com/review-of-the-2014-greenwich-wine-and-food-festival/ 
We just returned from the 2014 Greenwich Wine and Food Festival, and overall a good time was had once again. This really is more of a foodie event, with lots of food vendors, celebrity chefs, burger battles and even a food truck corner. There was scotch, bourbon, tequila and lots of beer. There was also Continue reading Review of the 2014 Greenwich Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/top-ten-white-wines-of-the-2014-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
Now it’s time for the top whites. (you can read about the Top Ten Reds here) We’ve been drinking more white wines lately, and due to that fact we’re expanding to a Top Ten list for whites. There were many good ones. A few trends were that Sauvignon Blanc was everywhere, Chardonnay is still everywhere, Continue reading Top Ten White Wines of the 2014 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/top-ten-red-wines-from-the-2014-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
Once again it is time to crown the Top Ten Red Wines from the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival, in this case the 2014 version of this great event. As always there was fierce competition for inclusion, and as always this list represents our favorites and is totally subjective. We consider quality, price, unique Continue reading Top Ten Red Wines from the 2014 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/highlights-of-the-2014-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
We just finished another great weekend in Newport, RI at the 2014 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival. Once again it did not disappoint, and if possible it was even better than last year. There was a definite improvement in the seminar locations, and the wine quality across the board was fabulous. For some reason Continue reading Highlights of the 2014 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/a-few-more-portuguese-wine-values/ 
After sort of neglecting Portuguese wines for a long time, due to a sometimes troublesome relationship with the Touriga Nacional grape, we were reintroduced to the wines of Portugal at Portugalia Marketplace in Fall River, MA. You can read the outcome of that here. There were some excellent, and I mean excellent, value wines that Continue reading A Few More Portuguese Wine Values https://www.redwineplease.com/good-values-from-burgundy-really-some-wines-of-maison-albert-bichot/ 
What comes to mind when you think of Burgundy? History certainly, tradition definitely, quality assuredly, but value probably not. Burgundy is home to the most expensive wines in the world. Yet these wines sell, and some are of cult status. People around the world appreciate Burgundy, and many, many wine aficionados would list this region Continue reading Good Values from Burgundy – Really! Some Wines of Maison Albert Bichot. |