The Ultimate Guide to Summer Wines Made from 100% Pinot Noir, La Crema Saralee’s Vineyard Rosé has the prettiest light pink salmon hue. With vibrant crisp flavors of strawberry, wild raspberry, tangerine and watermelon, it has a pink grapefruit note and a touch of spice on the finish. This rosé is a food wine and a great match with summer salads or shellfish.

Tasting With Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema What a great tasting today with Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema, part of the Jackson Wine Family. Craig originally joined the La Crema team in 2007 as the Harvest Enologist. After gaining additional experience abroad, he joined the La Crema team full time in 2009. He is passionate about cool-climate winemaking, which is evident from several of the wines experienced at today’s tasting. We started with the 2017 Pinot Noir rosé from the Saralee , so exclusive it is only sold in fine restaurants and through the La Crema wine club.

Tasting With Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema What a great tasting today with Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema, part of the Jackson Wine Family. Craig originally joined the La Crema team in 2007 as the Harvest Enologist. After gaining additional experience abroad, he joined the La Crema team full time in 2009...Then we moved on to two Pinot Noir wines, the first was the 2015 Russian River Valley, very deep colored and powerful, and then the slightly more nuanced and elegant Shell Ridge Sonoma Coast, which was very delicate and nuanced with a myriad of aromas and flavors.

Tasting With Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema What a great tasting today with Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema, part of the Jackson Wine Family. Craig originally joined the La Crema team in 2007 as the Harvest Enologist. After gaining additional experience abroad, he joined the La Crema team full time in 2009...Then we moved on to two Pinot Noir wines, the first was the 2015 Russian River Valley, very deep colored and powerful, and then the slightly more nuanced and elegant Shell Ridge Sonoma Coast, which was very delicate and nuanced with a myriad of aromas and flavors.

A smart chardonnay with bright fruit and layered flavors. Notes of apple, lemon and mineral, with a hint of caramel on the finish. A steal for the price. 3½ stars.

Tasting With Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema What a great tasting today with Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema, part of the Jackson Wine Family. Craig originally joined the La Crema team in 2007 as the Harvest Enologist. After gaining additional experience abroad, he joined the La Crema team full time in 2009...Then we moved on to two single vineyard Chardonnay, the first was the Saralee Chardonnay 2015, a luxurious rich wine with malolactic fermentation and lees aging, and then the Kelli Ann Chardonnay which was extremely Burgundian in style.

Tasting With Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema What a great tasting today with Craig McAllister, Head Winemaker of La Crema, part of the Jackson Wine Family. Craig originally joined the La Crema team in 2007 as the Harvest Enologist. After gaining additional experience abroad, he joined the La Crema team full time in 2009...Then we moved on to two single vineyard Chardonnay, the first was the Saralee Chardonnay 2015, a luxurious rich wine with malolactic fermentation and lees aging, and then the Kelli Ann Chardonnay which was extremely Burgundian in style.

Break out some of the best California Chardonnays in decades 2015 La Crema Arroyo Seco, citrus, butterscotch, spice.

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7 great options for drinking pink under $20 The trendy pink wine is everywhere these days. Here are some gems to try. The only potential downside is that so many producers have tried to take advantage of the furor (Girly Girl, anyone?) that there have been mixed results. That is especially true with the grapes used: For every Kendall-Jackson, whose inaugural Vintner’s Reserve Rosé is delightful, there are one or more purveyors trotting out clunky pink wines made with merlot or cabernet sauvignon.

Wines made for restaurants solve dilemma Similarly, a 2016 Jackson Estate Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast, is a real bargain today. My first thought was that the retail price should be about $50. At that, most restaurants would charge $70 or more. The winery is offering it to restaurants to sell for $42. A bargain. The grapes for this wine were grown in the Petaluma Gap, a newly approved and already near-legendary appellation. It is superb.

Wines made for restaurants solve dilemma At $45, another pinot, this one from Anderson Valley, also is excellent, but its alcohol (15 percent) is daunting. It is, however, impressive for the price.

Drink these 10 wines to celebrate spring While not overly complex this pinot noir delivers a very appealing quaffable red wine with pleasant cherry and spice notes in a rich, round package.    

The coastal vineyards around Santa Barbara are producing some of California’s best syrah. Oodles of fresh boysenberry and plums with a delightful spice element. This is an amazing value for one of the best syrahs we have tasted recently.

Wines made for restaurants solve dilemma Cabernet lovers will be pleased with the $54 suggested restaurant price for the 2014 Jackson Estate, Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Comparable cabs sell for about $50 in retail shops.

Wines made for restaurants solve dilemma One sophisticated such program was launched two years ago without fanfare by Kendall-Jackson, whose popular, widely available Vintners’ Reserve Chardonnay, with a California designation, sells for a suggested retail price $17. I have seen it on restaurant wine lists for $30 to $35. The 2016 Jackson Estate Chardonnay from Santa Maria Valley is offered to restaurants with a suggested wine-list price of $39. It is richly flavored with aromatics of tropical fruit and barrel aging. When served slightly chilled, it works nicely with food.

Wines of the Week: Portugal And Australia Edition This powerful, structured wine is still in the early stages of what will clearly be a very long life ahead, so if you do choose to drink a bottle now, make sure to decant it first, and pair it with something rich: A thick ribeye or braised short ribs would be optimal. Still, even though it’s young, this wine is already a show-stopper and delivers plenty of pleasure: Black cherry and gobs of blue- and purple-berry fruit are lent depth by a striking note of bacon and a hint of roasting cacao nibs, as well as lift with subtly floral peppercorn, sasparilla, and minerality. This is a tour de force effort, a generous, sweetly spiced gem that promises to provide pleasure until at least 2040 and likely well beyond.

The 25 Best Rosé Wines of 2018 From Oregon’s Willamette Valley comes this light, sophisticated Pinot Noir rosé, which has balanced fruit and acidity, and a dry finish. “I’d serve it with a nice chicken dinner,” one taster commented.

Everything’s Coming Up Rosé: Rosé Wines to Drink in 2018 This rosé is my new fave of 2018. The 2017 Gran Moraine Rose of Pinot Noir is made from 100% whole cluster-pressed Pinot Noir, and the color is actually more of a light salmon than it appears in these photos. It’s a nuanced rosé that offers more than simple strawberry notes; you get vanilla, watermelon, and almond flavors with a bright citrus finish.

The wine showed a pale pink color. Cherry, strawberry, cream, raspberry and peach all arrived on the nose. Cherry, strawberry, watermelon, cranberry, slate and hints of peach followed on the palate where the stone fruit emerged as the wine opened up. The wine exhibited great acidity and balance, along with good structure and length. This wine would be an ideal aperitif on a warm afternoon and would pair well with a selection of quality charcuterie.

52 Wines in 52 Weeks: 52 Rosés Edition! The Gran Moraine Vineyard gets those nice cool afternoon breezes that Pinot Noir grapes happen to love, and that’s the main source for the fruit in this whole-cluster-pressed dry pink, which has a lot of personality. Assertive acidity, aromas of pinapple, roses, mandarins, marasca cherry and honeysuckle, and some unexpected mid-palate supporting players like almonds, lemongrass, kiwi, watermelon and something earthy-tart that might be tamarind. The finish is long and lemony. Certainly food-friendly but this one’s got a complex enough personality that I think I might like it best on its own.

This vintage marked the second at Gran Moraine for worldly winemaker Shane Moore, an Idaho native who graduated from Washington State University’s winemaking program. His résumé-building experience in Australia and Israel, and his time in Sonoma working with Pinot Noir for Jackson Family Wines, made him an ideal pick to work with former Russian River Valley vintner Eugenia Keegan in Oregon. The selection of clones 114, 777 and 828 off the Gran Moraine and Estate vineyards shows immediately in the pale appearance reminiscent of Provence because none of those clone are known for color extraction. Delicate yet bright aromas of strawberry-rhubarb compote, Craisins and Montmorency cherry lead to a lovely mouth feel with flavors to match, capped by long flavors of white peach and red currant. Outstanding.

On Mother's Day, get her a great chardonnay This Oregon gem was one of our favorite chardonnays in this lineup. With character unique to this terroir, the wine has all pistons firing: texture, balance and only a kiss of oak. After the wine gets happy in oak barrels for 16 months, it is transferred to outdoor stainless-steel tanks and left to mature in the cold Northwest winter.

St. Helena Star/Napa Valley Vintner panelists enjoy, taste and rank today’s Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc Galerie Naissance 2017 Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley provides a range of flavors to enjoy from lemon citrus and fresh grass to ripe perfumy-melon.

Wines With Character For Mother's Day Sauvignon Blancs tend to be expressive, and Naissance is fuller bodied than most and has forward fruit gorgeously melded with mouth-watering crispness.