Four days until year’s longest night. Time for crackling fires, reflections, port wine. Continue reading “Porto”
Category: Recent Columns
Holiday Wine Gifts 2014
Fifteen days ‘till Christmas. If you are a disciplined, organized woman you may be wrapping up your shopping and just need a couple of items to complete your list. Continue reading “Holiday Wine Gifts 2014”
Wine Descriptors 2
Continuing exploration of wine tasting descriptors. Continue reading “Wine Descriptors 2”
Thanksgiving 2014 Part 2
Today is year’s biggest wine sales day at your wine store. Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2014 Part 2”
Thanksgiving 2014 part 1
Even people who don’t usually do wine do wine at Thanksgiving. Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2014 part 1”
Acidity
In many ways, art of winemaking is art of developing or manipulating four naturally-occurring acids: tartaric, malic, citric, and lactic. Continue reading “Acidity”
Wine Descriptors
If you deign to read tasting notes in this or other reviews, you encounter fervent attempts to render highly subjective sensations of nose and palate into memorable metaphors and florid adjectives. Continue reading “Wine Descriptors”
Halloween 2014
By Gus Clemens
Friday we celebrate Halloween, first of three year-end harvest festivals. Continue reading “Halloween 2014”
Pick a proper pairing
Too many people make a big deal about food-wine pairing. God bless them, they mean well. Continue reading “Pick a proper pairing”
Chilean wines
By Gus Clemens
With Chile’s Concha y Toro recently named world’s top still wine brand, closer look at the country. Continue reading “Chilean wines”