Author Archives: Tim Baldwin

“The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.” – Benjamin Franklin We’re going to take a break from reviewing wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’s Tour of France,Continue reading “Holiday Vinterlude – Some Nice White Wines We’ve Tried Lately”

(Posted October 20, 2022) “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins This is the fourteenth and fifteenth in a review of wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’sContinue reading “Wines #14 and 15: Gassac and Mercurey”

(Posted August 21, 2022) “Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.”― Homer We’re taking a break from our one-by-one tastings of the wines mentioned in Kermit Lynch’s Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’s Tour of France. Instead, we spent a few weeks in Italy tastingContinue reading “Interlude: A Wine Tour of Italy”

(Posted June 2, 2022) “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”― D. H. Lawrence This is the thirteenth in a review of wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’s Tour of France. Once again aContinue reading “Wine #13: Domaine Rémi Jobard Meursault Sous La Velle”

(posted April 4, 2022) “Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth,I look at you,I sigh.”― William Butler Yeats This is the eleventh in a review of wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’s Tour of France. Once againContinue reading “Wine #11: Burgundy’s Other White Wine – Aligoté”

(Posted March 20, 2022) “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield This is the ninth and tenth in a review of wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’s Tour ofContinue reading “Wines #9 and 10: Puligny Montrachet and Pernand-Vergelesses”

(Posted November 15, 2021) “Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”― Francis Bacon This is the eighth in a review of wines that were mentioned in the great book by Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Lover’sContinue reading “Wine #8: Nobles Rives Crozes-Hermitage”