So, it’s all kind of about the football these days, is it not? It is. It definitely is. And in preparation for this Super Bowl XLVI on the very soon-to-arrive Sunday, February 5th on Nnnnnnnnnnn-B-C (kick-off at 6:25pm EST – woot, woot!!), we wanted to talk a little bit about the ol’ U.S. of A.’s other favorite, national pastime: Wine drinking. Oh, yes, our fellow Americans – you heard it here. After all, it was only this past year in…
I’ve never done a top 10 list for wines before, and frankly the idea of ranking wines has always struck me as problematic. I’m not interested in the pursuit of the “best” wine, or trying to figure out what makes a wine “good”. You can make “good” wine easily enough—there are plenty of paint-by-the-number approaches that will secure scores; in fact there is an entire industry devoted to this. No. What I want, or rather, what I need from wine…
Hey there, pilgrims. About a year or so ago, I got to venture out to the great state of Washington on a quick but lovely wine-sippy trip (my first to these parts) over hill and dale, and all around the appellations of Columbia Valley, Wahluke Slope, and Rattlesnake Hill — and boy, did I get get hooked. Not only did I find its wide-open terrain intermittently dotted with pretty cherry, pear, and apple orchards oh-so easy on the eyes (and a…
Top 10 List
I’ve never done a top 10 list for wines before, and frankly the idea of ranking wines has always struck me as problematic. I’m not interested in the pursuit of…
Sadly, the first season of Game of Thrones has come to an end. So to hold us over, and to have a little fun, we’ve decided to merge our wine-geekdom…
The Top Ten Wines We Can’t Wait to Taste at the 2011 Spanish Wine Festival: The Spanish Wine Festival is our favorite day of the year. Why? When else do…
Top 10 Classic Rioja They make a whole lot of wine in Rioja, but most of it is not what you would call “classic”. This isn’t a judgment, but an…
What’s with all this talk of “funky” wine? Funky like George Clinton? Funky like a Parisian cheese shop? Well both…sort of. For a “funky” primer click here for my previous…
Green Wine
It’s July in France and that means one thing, Le Grand Boucle, or as the rest of us call it, the Tour de France. But despite 21 days of agony over 3,430.5 kilometers, there’s just…
The moment I step foot in Nicolas Joly’s vineyard in Savennières, I realize all my thinking about the man and about biodynamics has been wrong. I had spent too much time investigating natural winemaking techniques;…
What’s with all this talk of “funky” wine? Funky like George Clinton? Funky like a Parisian cheese shop? Well both…sort of. For a “funky” primer click here for my previous post, or check out my…
Funky Wine
What’s with all this talk of “funky” wine? Funky like George Clinton? Funky like a Parisian cheese shop? Well both…sort of. For a “funky” primer click here for my previous post, or check out my…
Top 10 Reasons You Should Drink Natural Wine 1. You like adventure: Because they don’t use sulfur, factory yeasts, or try in any way to control the fermentation, Natural Wines are unstable. Secondary fermentations, color…
All wines need to breath, but everybody knows that too much oxygen is a bad thing, right? Wrong! Sure, for 99.9% of all wines on planet Earth, too much oxygen is not a good idea:…
101 Wine Varietals: Want to impress your friends with your knowledge of obscure wine? Look no further than our grand, although by no means comprehensive, list of wine varietals. By James Wright 101 Wine Grape…
Sherry 101: Sherry 101: It’s fitting that we get the word Sherry from a mispronunciation of Jerez—the town where the fortified wine originates—because Sherry is the most misunderstood, underappreciated alcoholic beverage on the planet. But…
Wine and food pairing 101 Trust the Force, Luke Why do so many of us freak out when faced with figuring out what to drink with what we eat? Or, more specifically: The head-scratching, hot-potato,…
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