What do you do at harvest time if you are part of a family wine business, but are highly allergic to pollen? If you’re Alessio Inama, son of Azienda Agricola Inama‘s Stefano Inama, you hoof it to the major wine markets, and take media types like me out to dinner so that we can taste…
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89 Years Of Kicking Ass (1927 D’Oliveiras Bastardo Madeira)
I was heartened by all of the positive reaction to a recent Book of Face post regarding the combination of two aging souls who are still kicking all kinds of ass. The first is my cousin Kathleen, who turned 89 years old this past Saturday. The second was a certain rare-ish Madeira wine that happens…
Uhm , Yeah, Well Who Doesn’t?!?? (Drinking Big On The “We Like Drinking” Podcast)
I was recently a guest on the We Like Drinking podcast (episode 66), hosted by wine blogger Jeff Eckles and beer brewer Jim Myers. Which, in a few moments, will have me talking about expensive Cabernet, Michael Fassbender, and new American Viticultural Areas. Just maybe not in that order. Anyway… You can listen to the…
Pinooooooooooh Yeeeeaaaah (Two Exceptional Pinot Noir Recent Releases)
Sometimes, the wine sample pool giveth, sometimes the wine sample pool taketh away (usually it taketh away my hope), and sometimes – very rarely – the wine sample pool giveth and then giveth some more. Today’s focus is the latter; two Pinot Noir recent releases that are downright exceptional. Exceptional enough that I drank the…