While I cannot verify it via personal experience, I strongly suspect that apart from mining, graphic novels, porn (or maybe graphic novels about porn), the wine business is the only other industry in which you can start a story with the phrase “so I once met this guy in a cave…” without raising eyebrows in…
Category: wine review
Hourglass Recent Releases (Or, “Reports Of Napa’s Vintage From Hell Might Be Overblown”)
I, along with a small cadre of other wine media peeps, recently got invited to one of those on-line Q&A / sample tasting thangs highlighting recent releases from high-end Napa Valley producer Hourglass (so named due to the shape of their vineyard holdings, which form part of the narrowest spots in the North-South winegrowing continuum…
Still Yummy After All These Years (Marques de Riscal Crianza 1979)
In between bites of grilled chicken pita BLT at Four Dogs Tavern a few weeks ago, I looked up across the table at fellow PA wine educator Bob Trimble. Chew, chew, chew. Swallow. Lift of the glass, sip, gulp. Smile. “The thing about this wine,” I said, “is that it probably tasted yummy when it…
A Post-Holiday Bargain Bottle Of Farmer Fizz (And How To Pour It!)
When Playboy.com asked me to put together a primer on Champagne (for the NYE celebration holiday season), I was sporting a seriously large sh*t-eating grin on my face. I mean, c’mon… the homework involved in that requires me to raid the sample pool for all of the Champers I could get my grubby little paws…