Wine
Came back from a presentation of Greek wines last night that left us so excited we all went home to check Orbitz for cheap flights to Athens. It’s not just that the wines were all well-crafted and made sense to our palates, it’s that the presenter was incredibly enthusiastic: Theresa Paopao, wine director of Oleana [...]
Climate project and wine guru Pancho Campo suggested this week that we might want to go back to the olden days of wine commerce. In order to avoid the tremendous amount of emissions caused by transporting crates of heavy wine bottles, we might want to return to the time when wine was shipped in bulk [...]
A young kid in a winery? Never thought I’d see it on the Hallmark Channel. Though UNCORKED is a generic romance movie, the background is wine. The male lead (Scott Elrod) is a chef and his parents (Jo Beth Williams and Elliott Gould) run a small Northern California winery. His very young son also helps [...]
Continue reading about Hallmark goes family-friendly with wine in ‘Uncorked’ March 6th
Still trying to get my head around the wines of Puglia, where I spent several days last week. All sorts of great native grapes — negroamaro, primitivo, uva di troia, bombino bianco, malvasia, fiano — and some chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. As with many emerging wine regions, Puglian winemakers are caught in a dilemma: should [...]
We’ve been buying good, moderately priced Sauvignon Blancs from Chile for the past few years, so I was happy to try half a dozen more from all over the country, when I got the chance. All six are vintage 2008, which means they’ve been on the market for several months. They’ve lost that ultra-new quality [...]
I asked so many wine questions I had to come clean. When I confessed to the crew of Singapore flight 25 I was going to the Singapore Airlines wine forum, an off-duty crew member overheard and took me through an impromptu wine-tasting at 33,000 feet — or whatever the actual altitude was. It was also [...]
Curious about what’s going on the Languedoc, I had a chance to try both the 2006 and 2005 Blason d’Aussieres this week. I almost wish I hadn’t had the two togeher, because they are both very good wines but one always has to suffer by comparison – and it shouldn’t. The 2006 entranced us with [...]
Continue reading about Rothschild (Lafite) in Corbieres: Blason d’Aussieres
We never get Sancerre more than a few years old, in the course of normal events here. Yet somehow a bottle of 2000 Sancerre appeared in the forgotten section of my vast cellar (cardboard box) so I brought it up to try last night. The label also reminds me it is Vieilles Vignes [old vines] [...]
With the help of several excellent wines, I’ve been testing fun wine toys: wine enhanchers, an instant wine chiller, and even red wine cleaners. Having had the red wine version for a while, I love the sound the Vinturi makes when you pour wine through it into your glass. Vinturi’s new white wine enhancer works [...]
