Tim Lemke

Tim is the founder and chief reviewer at Cheap Wine Ratings since 2007.
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If you aren’t familiar with carménère, that’s ok.  You’re probably not alone.  For a varietal that has spent much of the latter part of...

When you think of wine from Australia you probably think of Shiraz first, as well you should.  Shiraz is Australia’s most planted variety, and...

I really want to like this wine.  The overall look of the packaging is clean and simple but the blazoned red “181” on the...

Someone once told me that richness in life shouldn't be measured by how much stuff you accumulate, but by how many of your days...

I have often dissed sauvignon blanc from California.  I've called it bland, boring, lifeless.  I'm guilty of badmouthing the whole category based on a...

It’s been close to 3 years since we’ve reviewed Twisted’s 2005 Old Vine Zinfandel.  It represented a great value back then at it’s...

Continuing the theme of our last review, today we're checking out a couple more sauvignon blancs from the Casablanca Valley region of Chile.  Both...

This is the third year in a row that we've had the opportunity to review the Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc and after reviewing this wine...

We're back to another box today, or an Octavin to be more precise.  This is a cabernet sauvignon from the Central Coast of California....

Muscat, also know as muscatel or moscatel, is a varietal that is produced in many of the major wine growing regions around the world....