Top Greek wine blogger Markus Stolz, author of Elloinos, has posted his tasting notes from “Five Decades of Boutari Xinomavro” here. Chapeau bas, Markus! Excellent notes and great post!
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Preview TNs from 5 decades of Boutari grand tasting
May 25, 2011You can imagine how excited we are to see tasting notes and reviews from the grand tasting of “five decades of Boutari” held on Monday in Greece. We still haven’t seen any bona fide TNs but we have had a few previews on the Twitter: Stay tuned: top Greek wine blogger Markus Stolz of Elloinos [...]
Greek wine basics: Naoussa I
May 19, 2011The following post is the fourth in a series of Greek wine basics. It’s been transcribed from Konstantinos Lazarakis MW’s The Wines of Greece (London, Mitchell Beazley, 2005, currently out of print). While Lazarakis’ book is difficult to find these days, it remains THE number-one resource for information — technical and historical — on the wines [...]
Tasting note: 2007 Naoussa by Fringe Wine
May 13, 2011Here’s what Fringe Wine had to say about the 2007 Naoussa, which he recently tasted and posted on this week: The wine had a light ruby color in the glass and and a generous nose of crushed red berries, stewed cherries, rich raspberry and some redcurrant with kind of a leafy, herbal edge. There was [...]
Canadian-Greek sommelier Evan Saviolidis visits Boutari
April 1, 2011Above: Canadian-Greek sommelier and wine educator Evan Saviolidis recently visited Boutari’s Naoussa winery. Part II, Day 3 It was an early morning departure to the Naoussa region and Boutari, a goliath of the industry. The company was the first to bottle Greek wine back in 1879, as well as the first to ship abroad. Today, [...]
07 Naoussa top 2010 pick for Dallas Morning News wine panel
December 22, 2010This just in from the Dallas Morning News… In the past year, The Dallas Morning News monthly wine panel has sampled more than 200 wines. Usually we’re hunting down something to match with a particular food, but sometimes we explore offbeat categories – such as the best gimmicky-labeled wines, in September. Here’s a roundup of [...]
Saveur offers “seven reasons to love Greek wine”
July 22, 2010In the August issue of Saveur magazine, one of our favorite wine and food writers, David Rosengarten, delivers yet another stunning piece on Greece and its wines, this time with “Seven Reasons to Love Greek Wine, a new generation is renewing Greece’s ancient art.” “My favorite Greek reds, hand down, are made form the native [...]
David Rosengarten visits Boutari
June 28, 2010If you don’t know leading food writer David Rosengarten, you must have been living under a rock for the last 25 years. Here’s his bio (lifted from his personal blog): “Journalist, television personality, and cookbook author, David Rosengarten has covered great food products, restaurants, wines, beer, coffee and tea, gastronomic travel destinations, and related subjects [...]
Greek wine in San Diego: Apollonia and Athena
May 18, 2010Above: Classic Greek dishes, family-friendly service, affordable prices, and Boutari Noussa by the glass at Apollonia Bistro in San Diego (University Town Center area). “People always ask for Greek wines,” said Apollonio Bistro manager Matt Eker when we visited the restaurant the other night for dinner in San Diego. Matt oversees the wine list there [...]
Wine Advocate gives Grand Reserve Naoussa 90 points
April 28, 20102004 Boutari Grand Reserve Naoussa A Xinomavro Dry Red Table wine from Naoussa, Macedonia, Greece 90 points The 2004 GRANDE RESERVE has powerful aromatics, a touch of funk and a touch of game, plus more intensity than the ’06 regular reviewed this issue. Focused, complex and earthy, despite the time in oak, this is quite [...]
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