Countless “best of” or “recommended wine” lists borrow the marketing phrase from the 1980′s claiming that “life’s too short to drink bad wine.” If life is too short to drink poor quality wine, it is definitely too short to drink… Read more ›
Countless “best of” or “recommended wine” lists borrow the marketing phrase from the 1980′s claiming that “life’s too short to drink bad wine.” If life is too short to drink poor quality wine, it is definitely too short to drink… Read more ›
The pressure is on. You are flanked by the boss and four very well-dressed potential clients. The situation is already tense. You don’t have a feel for how well the pitch is going. Just as the room becomes a little… Read more ›
Wine is no place for monogamy. Drink around! Why be loyal to a single favorite, when you can develop loyalties to multiple grapes, vineyards or styles. After all, to enjoy wine is to delight in flavor. Each winemaker brings a… Read more ›
Let’s just get this wine monkey off Germany’s back right away: Liebfraumilch is far and away its leading export. Great Britain, the US, and the Netherlands knock back most of it and, rest assured, this accounts for almost all Liebfraumilch… Read more ›
Walk into a fine wine shop, and you feel like you’ve just stepped into an art museum. Creating wine labels certainly keeps the graphic artists busy! Wineries love to play up oenology as fine art, and reinforce the notion with… Read more ›
Although anyone who makes wine is a winemaker, not every winemaker is of the same class. One could be a home or hobbyist winemaker; a consultant, a “flying winemaker,” who travels the globe on serial projects to assist other winemakers;… Read more ›
Some of the more pretentious folks* I know approach the simplest of buffets—a plate of cheese with some slivers of bread, leavened or not—as if it were a prop to some performance art the rest of us palette-impaired plebs couldn’t… Read more ›
Rob and Travis toasted with a glass or three of HJ Fabre Barrel Select Malbec 2009 (Patagonia, Aregentina) during their last episode of “The Night Views Winery.” According to the “official tasting notes” this wine: 100% Oaked Malbec. Serve at… Read more ›