Sentence examples for benchmark wines from inspiring English sources

Burgundy and Bordeaux are historic benchmark wines.

By the time I had some money and the inclination to splurge on wine, these historic benchmark wines had become absurdly, ridiculously overpriced.

They are benchmark wines that demonstrate what can be accomplished when the combination of grapes, land, winemaking and commercial acumen all come together.

Scoring has contributed to the evolution of benchmark wines into expensive luxury objects, well out of the reach of most people.

For many in the Triangle, wine is not a matter of ratings on the 100-point scale, status labels, hushed tastings of benchmark wines and other trappings associated with connoisseurship.

Mr. Parker is still the world's most influential wine critic, at least in the sense that his words help set the prices of the top-flight Bordeaux market and Châteauneuf-du-Pape, as well as the auction market for old benchmark wines.

Tempier today is the leading name in Bandol and makes the benchmark wine — taming the beast at the heart of mourvèdre and producing about as elegant a wine as you will find in the region, the Cuvée Classique,.

Chardonnay is America's benchmark white wine, and it is not surprising that our pinot gris resembles it to some extent.

The entire industry hangs on the word of the critic Robert Parker, whose scores are a benchmark against how wines are priced.

His more affordable Benchmark series of wines casts the net a bit further, bringing in grapes from vineyards around South Australia for, in this case, a plump, plummy, winter-warmer that would be very happy with spicy Moroccan lamb.

Just as Mondavi was the benchmark when French wine enthusiasts thought about California wine back in the 1970s, Grace is the Chinese standard today.