Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz! Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I do not supply the quiz answer directly in the post – you will need to tune back in later in the comments section for the answer. Blah, blah, blah – you know all this already… Sometimes good wines just go……
Month: March 2012
Cleaning Barolo’s Clock? (Going Old School With Travaglini’s Recent – And Not So Recent–Gattinara Vintages)
Italy’s northwestern region of Piedmont gets a lot of attention in the wine media world. Or, I should say, its tiny subregions of Barolo and Barbaresco, the anointed spiritual homes of the Nebbiolo grape, get the lion’s share of the area’s wine media attention – the rest of the dozen or so winemaking appellations in…
Get Real (Time) About Wine And Google+ With Me Tomorrow At 10AM EDT!
[ UPDATED: embed of the hangout vid is after the jump below ] A quick blurb here to tell you that I’m going to be a guest on Plus Real Time tomorrow at 10AM EDT. Plus Real Time is headed up by Randy Resnick, who is on the leading (bleeding?) edge of getting the wine world…
The Greatest California Vineyard You Don’t Know About (Communing – And Drinking! – With Old Souls In Lodi)
Well, you may actually know about it, but that would certainly put you in better shape than I was when my friend and sommelier legend Randy Caparoso kidnapped me from Premiere Napa Valley in February, insisting that I spend some time in Lodi to see some down-home, old school wine farming. What I wasn’t entirely…
