Surprise! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. You were assigned to provide wine for your family’s feast, but you did not give it a thought until now. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines 2 of 2”
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Thanksgiving wines 1 of 2
Thanksgiving is the festive family feast where even people who don’t buy or drink wine very often buy and drink wine. Today’s column is for you. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines 1 of 2”
Bonarda-Malbec
When a Bordeaux grape and South American terroir tumbled into passionate embrace, Argentinean vintners gave birth to an international legit hit in malbec. Continue reading “Bonarda-Malbec”
Halloween 2012
Real Halloween horrors are not faux-frightening costumes or campy wine plays—Vampire Vineyards, Poizin Zin, or Casillero de Diablo (“Cellar of the Devil”)—tonight’s real horrors are bags of treacly treats that will generate manic sugar highs. Be afraid, be very afraid. Continue reading “Halloween 2012”
Champagne Day
Friday, October 26, is the Third Annual International Champagne Day. Continue reading “Champagne Day”
White zin riffs
Wine drinking dramatically increases with harvest holidays. Continue reading “White zin riffs”
Wine faults
Modern techniques produce more quality wine than ever before. Alas, things still go wrong. Continue reading “Wine faults”
Washing wine glasses
The wine is the perfect pair for your fare. Then you pour into cloudy, stained stemware and visions of Bubba & Bab’s Greasy Spoon Diner dance in your guest’s head. Continue reading “Washing wine glasses”
Wine scores 5 of 5
We visited wine scoring notes past four weeks, noting wine scores by different notable wine scorers do not mean the same thing. Continue reading “Wine scores 5 of 5”
Wine scores 4 of 5
We’ve slogged through wine scores for three weeks, discovering perhaps what we thought we knew about points was off-point, maybe pointless. We push on. Continue reading “Wine scores 4 of 5”