This month over at Wine.Answers.com, the following tidbits ensued for your wine reading/learning/geeking pleasure. While several numbers are involved, math is not, so if you find math mind-numbingly boring as I do, you can proceed to the following articles without fear: The 411 on DCV: I recently took a junket jaunt to Dry Creek Valley…
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The Rare, The Weird, And The Wonderful (Answers.com Wine Article Roundup, May 2014)
It’s that time of month again, when we get all wrapped-up in the wrap-ups. This month over at Wine.Answers.com, I dealt in the rare (and long-overdue), the weird (two kinds, actually), and the wonderful: First, the Rare: A focus on what makes the magical wines of Portugal’s Madeira so damn… magical, as told through the…
The Heat Is… ON! (Publix Summer Grape 2014)
The Heat is…ON! (cue the cheesy sax line!) I know it’s still technically Spring, but if I’ve got my preschool memories sorted out correctly (hey, a lot of brain cells have been killed off by alcohol at this point), for the Northern Hemisphere that means Summer ought to be coming forthwith. And forth-with it, the…
No Reservations (Bodegas Riojanas Monte Real Gran Reserva 1964)
Despite the simple title, I did, in fact, have serious reservations about the subject of today’s featured juice. After all, technically I tasted it while being “on the clock” for a paying gig with Wines of Rioja (now ended), which had me wondering just how impartial of a judgment I could make about it. But…