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Chateauneuf du Pape at the Pinnacle: Chateau de Beaucastel

By Ned Goodwin MW Thu, Oct 06, 2011 7:25AM UTC View Comments

Chateau de Beaucastel My tastings in Chateauneuf du Pape and the satellite regions of the southern Rhone, including Gigondas (where compelling geological diversity and altitude make for wines as complex and certainly more finessed than the mother `neuf), concluded with one of the leading lights, Chateau de Beaucastel. Marc Perrin provided some background to the...

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Chateauneuf du Papes: Some tasty 2010′s & beyond

By Ned Goodwin MW Tue, Oct 04, 2011 5:36AM UTC View Comments

Following trails in southern Germany and Champagne (see last five posts), I met my family in Paris and headed to the southern Rhone for a vacation. I took the time to look at many top estates` ’10`s out of tank, many still unassembled; some ’09`s, and some vibrant and highly drinkable, if not slightly herbal,...

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The Adventure Continues: Champagne

By Ned Goodwin MW Thu, Sep 22, 2011 3:02PM UTC View Comments

Following a recent forage through the Palatinate, in southern Germany (see my last four posts), my brother and I drove to Paris via Champagne for two-days, before heading onto the southern Rhone for a two-week family vacation. Stay tuned for notes on ’10 Chateauneufs! In Champagne we tasted some wines from small growers, becoming ever...

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The Pfalz Part 4: Live, sweaty & NO, it’s not the scorpions!

By Ned Goodwin MW Thu, Sep 15, 2011 10:02PM UTC View Comments

Following the last three posts on contemporary German wines, here is the final piece on my recent visit to the Pflaz, in southern Germany, where I was fortunate enough to be judging at a wine show. Rebholz I once found the wines here a little too intellectual and, upon reflection, less than the imminently pleasurable...

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The Pfalz III: Dr. Deinhardt and Von Winning tasting notes

By Ned Goodwin MW Sat, Sep 03, 2011 4:02PM UTC View Comments

This blog is a continuation of my tasting notes following a recent forage in southern Germany and the Pfalz as judge at a wine-show. Here is part 3. If you haven’t done so already, check out the previous two posts for further insight into the region that for me, at least, produces the world’s finest...

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