Wine should be enjoyed. But the difficulty can be in deciding which wine will match your palette the best. I’ve said before that price doesn’t always equal quality. However, often it is difficult to dig deep enough in a wine to find the best bottle. Do you want the 2004 or [...]
Alder Yarrow wrote a great piece in his monthly column at Gastronomic Meditations about the 5 stages of the wine drinker’s education:
STAGE 1: Red, White, Pink, or Bubbles
STAGE 2: Varietal Schmarietal
STAGE 3: Distinctions
STAGE 4: Depth
Vocabulary
Winemaking
Wine regions
Components of taste and aroma
Deliberate [...]
90% likely that if you’re drinking American, you’re drinking Californian.
The $45 billion industry for California is the 900-pound gorilla that has generally overpowered the rest of the nation in terms of small wineries getting known to the public. I have repeatedly shared my love for Oliver Winery in past posts. There are many others [...]
6 years ago, The Economist had a great article on very expensive wine. Not so much on what makes a wine justify a $100+ price tag, but instead, what purpose the marked-up wine serves to the wine community and to the casual wine folks.
During the mid-1980s and 90s, the south-Asian wine economy was on a [...]
Alder Yarrow wrote a great piece in his monthly column at Gastronomic Meditations about the 5 stages of the wine drinker’s education:
STAGE 1: Red, White, Pink, or Bubbles
STAGE 2: Varietal Schmarietal
STAGE 3: Distinctions
STAGE 4: Depth
Vocabulary
Winemaking
Wine regions
Components of taste and aroma
Deliberate [...]
It seems that I have fallen victim to putting all my posts from the last week into my draft status bin because I didn’t think they were quite ready. In other news, I’ve had no posts for a week.
I have been doing a bit of searching and reading and have decided that I will write [...]
If you want to share in the emotional port-a-potty of the internet, you might want to check out group hug. It is a mixture between confessional and something else that I can’t put my finger on. It should be applauded for it’s ability to allow us to all spill our guts and not feel nervous [...]
Alder has again posted an interesting bit of info. This time he connects us, loyal reader, to a post by Napa resident, Dan Berger, concerning the 5 types of wine that are out there. It makes for handy reading and classification of what we drink from boxes to incredibly expensive bottles that are saved for [...]
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