Style Light white New World Country New Zealand Price $14
Vintage tasted 2009 Grapes Sauvignon Blanc
Website www.nobilowines.com

Nobilo was founded in the 1940s by a Croatian immigrant whose family had been making wine in Europe for hundreds of years. According to the story, he moved to New Zealand in hopes of continuing to make wines in the Old World style—the likes of which were nowhere to be found in Kiwi country. There’s still work to be done: just like last year’s vintage, whose flavors were most definitely not European, this year’s wine has many of the green, less fruity flavors we associate with New World Sauvignon Blanc. [More]

New in the Journal of Wine Economics: my book review of Parker’s Wine Bargains

by Robin Goldstein

Released today in the new issue of the Journal of Wine Economics is my review of Robert M. Parker, Jr.’s Parker’s Wine Bargains: The World’s Greatest Wine Values Under $25 (Simon & Schuster).

The full text of my review is available for free (PDF; begins on p. 209). I also encourage you to subscribe to the JWE to get the full text of all other JWE articles.

Here’s an excerpt from my piece:

…Even if the exaggerated style of winemaking championed by the critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., has fallen out of fashion amongst wine geeks these days, there are a hundred legacies that will endure for generations beyond the particulars of the man’s palate: his points.

Robert Parker was not the… [More]

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