Enobytes

Judy Jordan, Founder and President of J Vineyards & Winery and second-generation vintner, chose to honor her family’s heritage with a courageous and different path. Respecting her family and the Jordan Winery, Judy decided as a young woman to build her own brand and winery. More than twenty years later, she has succeeded at building [...]

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Here is this week’s wine bytes, short mini reviews of some of the sparklers we’ve tasted this week. 2005 Penet-Chardonnet Millesime Extra Brut Yeasty with slight lemon and grapefruit notes; medium-bodied with a zesty, slightly sharp and appealing finish. Rating: A | $50 | 12.0% ABV NV Francis Boulard Mailly Grand Cru Extra Brut This [...]

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Take a stroll down Avenue du Champagne in Epernay and you will see small stone plaques that mark the vineyards owned by the Grandes Marques, the large houses of Champagne. Glance across the landscape, and you would expect the large houses would own all the vineyards as far as the eye can see. On the [...]

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Great flavors from the Anderson Valley outpost of the famed Louis Roederer Champagne house; this non-vintage wine proves the Anderson Valley can produce some of the best wines in the world. It will compete with any and all champagnes including the one produced by the parent company Louis Roederer. Opening with vanilla and yeast aromas, [...]

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The Landmark Tutorial 2010: Seminars, Wines and Opinion Seminar 2: Sparkling Wines presented by Ed Carr and Dr. Tony Jordan Sparkling wine in Australia has gone through a quality revolution in recent memory. As Ed Carr and Tony Jordan elaborated, prior to the early 1970s, most sparkling wines in Australia were made via tank method [...]

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This was the start to our Christmas Dinner 2010 and what a wonderful start.  The crispness level was off the charts—it even smelled crisp if that is actually possible. The smell of clean sea air was vaguely represented and mixed with juicy ripe freshly cut golden delicious apple, no creaminess or yeast and for some [...]

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