Vinavanti is an urban winery in San Diego whose Black Label wines emphasize a natural winemaking approach. Knowing my interest in Mourvèdre-based wines, Eric Van Drunen was kind enough to provide two bottles as samples for review. Both the 2011 Mourvèdre and Clara Rosé, sourced from nearby Temecula Valley, are hand-picked, native-fermentation, unfined/unfiltered, no sulfite wines. [...]
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April 15th, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Mourvèdre, Rose, Temecula Valley | Category: Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes | 
Leave a comment.Your monthly roundup of Mourvèdre-related interestingness from the interwebs circa March 2013. Last month’s roundup led off with a jealosy-stoking post about a major Domaine Tempier tasting, so let’s start March’s roundup with @ErinBScala‘s post on a vertical tasting of Hewitson’s Old Garden Mourvèdre, from the first vintage (1998) through the latest barrel sample (2012). If [...] April 4th, 2013 | Tags: Mataro, Mourvèdre, old vines, Rhone Rangers | Category: Commentary, Round-Ups |
Leave a comment.A quick-hit #MourvedreMonday wine… . Merum 2009 Monastrell – Jumilla Dried cherry, raspberry, mossy earthiness and dried flowers. Rich, but with good acidity. This tasty and interesting little Jumilla is 85% Monastrell and 15% Syrah and well worth the $10.50 I paid for it. Grab a bottle if you come across it and let me [...] April 1st, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Jumilla, Monastrell, Mourvèdre | Category: Price: 10 bucks or less, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.With spring just around the corner, my pick for this Mourvèdre Monday is a lovely little Bandol rosé. Bandol, located within Provence, is France’s only wine region where Mourvèdre is the dominant grape. In other words, heaven. I couldn’t find the exact varietal composition of this bottle, but the Bandol AOC regulations require at least 50% [...] March 11th, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Bandol, Mourvèdre, Mourvèdre Monday, Rose, Wines for Spring, Wines for Summer | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.It’s the first #MourvedreMonday of the month, so here’s a roundup of Mourvèdre-related interestingness from the past month: February, the dwarf month. (I wonder if someday, February will be downgraded from full month status to “dwarf”, like poor ole Pluto.) The Leon Stolarski Blog stoked my jealousy this month with a post describing a major [...] March 4th, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Bandol, Domaine Tempier, lamb's spinal cord, Mataro, Monastrell, Mourvèdre, Pluto | Category: Commentary, Round-Ups |
Leave a comment.It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a chance to taste a Barossa Mourvèdre for the intermittent yet persistent #MourvedreMonday series. I recently came across this bottle at a wine shop I hadn’t visited before. I’d heard of Turkey Flat before via my Mourvèdre-radar (i.e., hours on the internet), but hadn’t ever found a [...] January 28th, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Barossa Valley, Mourvèdre, Mourvèdre Monday | Category: Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.It’s another #MourvedreMonday, but I don’t have a wine review to post. So I’ll share this fun video of Paso Wine Man singing the praises of my favorite grape for Paso’s 2013 Varietal of the Month Series. (I’ll have to forgive the awkward pronunciation…) #TeamMourvedre January 21st, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, #TeamMourvedre, Mourvèdre, Paso Robles | Category: Uncategorized |
Leave a comment.SFGate’s Top 100 Wines of 2012 hit the interwebs yesterday and is a must-read. It’s loaded with intriguing wines to seek out, courtesy of Jon Bonné (@jbonne) Only one varietal Mourvèdre made the list, but it’s one I’ve been itching to get my hands on — the 2011 La Clarine Farm Cedarville Sierra Foothills Mourvèdre, described [...] December 4th, 2012 | Tags: #TeamMourvedre, Mourvèdre, Top 100 | Category: Commentary |
Leave a comment.I tasted this wine back in the summer, but never got around to blogging my notes. So I decided to dust them off for today’s Mourvèdre Monday post. Tablas Creek 2008 Esprit de Beaucastel Rouge Complex nose of cherry/raspberry fruit with a hit of coffee/mocha and mint. On the palate, it is mouth-filling without [...] December 3rd, 2012 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, #TeamMourvedre, Beaucastel, Counoise, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Mourvèdre Monday, Paso Robles, Syrah, Tablas Creek | Category: Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
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Khal Drogo Says: Keep Calm And Drink Mourvèdre
It’s nice having Khal Drogo on #TeamMourvedre!
This wonderful image comes from the people behind Game of Rhones (why didn’t I think of that name!), a Rhone-focused wine event in Melbourne, Australia. Check out the website; they’re really all-in with the Game of Thrones theme. Oh, and the wine sounds awesome, too. I [...]