This late in the COVID SIP game, the entire wine industry pretty much has the ZOOM tasting thing down pat. The flurry of tasting invites has been getting intense in the final stretch of 2020, so much so that I’ve been a) having to decline several competing tastings, b) totally losing track of what sample…
Category: elegant wines
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 14 (What We Drank to Toast Democracy)
Well… in what is amounting to, put charitably, quite a year now contains one of the most well-THAT-was-quite-a-week moments arguably in U.S (world?) history. In case you haven’t heard (presumably because you’ve been fortunate enough to have been stranded on a beautiful, remote island somewhere with an almost unlimited amount of Madeira stashed in caves…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 12 (CARO Recent Releases)
Admittedly, I kind of wanted to hate CARO. Not because of the wine, which as you’ll read in a minute or two is well worth talking about, but because it’s just the kind of big-wine-companies-joint venture (between Argentina’s Catena and France’s Lafite Rothschild) that is almost too clever for its own good. Almost. The idea…
To the Victors, the Spoils (Dude’s Take on Aged Champers & Mouton!)
It’s undeniable that 2020 has been, by and large, a dumpster fire, sh*t-show of a year. BUT… it hasn’t all been fetid, noxious piles of flaming refuse. At 1WD HQ, there have been some aspects of 2020 fortuitous enough to justify breaking out the good stuff. And, I do mean the good stuff. For starters,…
