So… it’s Valentine’s Day… 8AM ET on that day, when this post will first hit the virtual airwaves… Are you sick enough of all of the bubbly and pink wine recommendations to want to rip off your own skull yet? My strong suspicion is “Yes” [ Editor’s Note: please do NOT rip off your own…
Tag: wine review
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…
Churchill’s Vintage Port Recent (And Not So Recent) Releases
“You can beat the sh*t out of something, and all you get is powdered sh*t!” – Johnny Graham As part of some prep work for recently-published Playboy Port Primer (For Your Holiday Port-ing Pleasure), in November I was a guest of importer Frederick Wildman for a lunch/tasting and dinner/tasting with Johnny Graham, the force behind…