Sentence examples for compelling wine from inspiring English sources

It also testifies to both the region's longstanding inability to produce much in the way of compelling wine and the appellation system's failure to find logic in either its rules for Languedoc or a meaningful way of subdividing the land.

I think it makes very compelling wine," MacRostie said.

Dishing The List We scoured the country to find other restaurants with compelling wine lists.

Go-To Spots We queried wine distributors, food and wine writers and bloggers to find the restaurants in Eastern Europe with the most compelling wine lists.

"I had a pretty compelling wine, the '98 Neyers Syrah 'Hudson Vineyard.' What's really so nice about it, as you're tasting it, it smells like the Rhone Valley.

Nowadays, I might choose a gamay from the Loire Valley, or one of the few American versions, like Edmunds St. John's, which I think come closer to those lighthearted yet compelling wines.

But compelling wines from new producers in obscure regions are popping up in spades.

Behind The List We asked Betts and other sommeliers from around the country to come up with a list of 10 restaurants in America with compelling restaurant wine lists.

Some Viennese producers also make red wines, but the few I have tried seem less compelling — good wines, but not as distinctive as the whites.

Then there was the cumin soda, so fresh, lively and exotic that it was more compelling than the wine we brought for dinner.

As table wines, though — something compelling to drink with a meal — these wines were largely disasters, flabby, sweet and overbearing.