Wine Blogging Wednesday 15 - Small Production Wines

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Nov 3rd 2005 @ 3:08PM

wine blogging wednesday 15 logo It that time again - Wine Blogging Wednesday! The theme this month is small production wines; wines where less than 250 cases are produced. It's a tricky one and likely to be more expensive than usual as limited availability often equals high demand and consequently higher prices.

A quick trawl through a few participating blogs (technorati tags include WBW+15) reveals some superb choices -

Beau at BasicJuice has opted for a Barolo (Silvio Grasso 'Pi Vigne' Barolo, 2000, Italy) US$54 and puts a shout-out for food matching ideas
Lenn has selected a Waters Crest Winery Meritage, 2001, USA where just 50 cases were produced and gives a full tasting note on Lenndevours.
Catherine at Manage Your Cellar selects the Chaine d'Or Cabernet Sauvignon, 2001, Santa Cruz, California which she describes as "lively with notes of baked apples and butterscotch"
Over at Winecast my internet buddy Tim was lucky to receive a sample Sangiovese for a forthcoming podcast that was "made in a garage in a batch of just 84 cases". You can read and hear all about Humanitas L'Huile du Garagiste on Winecast.net.
Down in Australia, Tomatom, has selected Red Hill Pinot Noir, 2004, Australia, sounds delicious, while Derrick, continuing his Obsessions, has picked on a German, gastro-bully that he is, with the Merkelbach Riesling Spätlese, Kinheimer Rosenberg, 2003, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany - a mouthful in more ways than one!

No word, yet, from the host/instigator of this months theme, who happens to be the delightful Fatemeh of Gastronomie-SF. But from just these five blogs a superb array of wines. Sadly my choice, an expensive Rioja, turned out to have a comparatively huge production of 1690 cases!

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