Since unloading my bounty from wine storage last month, I haven’t had anything local to drink. Decided to change that, so I picked up the 2006 White Hall Petit Verdot from The Wine Market for $17.99. I had a glass while cooking dinner. The wine is dark, slightly translucent deep red/purple. It smelled oaky, oxidized, [...]
Caught Bottle Shock on Friday night after a summer of anticipation. I came away entertained. Given the bout of excitement leading up to the limited release, Bottle Shock had a lot to live up to. I was seriously looking forward to it, usually a recipe for disappointment. Jody Savin & Randall Miller combined with Ross [...]
CC licensed image from Flickr user estherase When I posted about Wine Spectator’s Awards of Excellence a few weeks ago, I noticed something interesting in the selection criteria. Wine Spectator doesn’t visit the restaurants that they’re passing out awards to. They take applications. A restaurant sends in their menu, wine list, and a $250 check [...]
100% or less markup? Check Bunch of drinkable wines under $30? Check Balanced selection of Whites and Reds? Check Plenty of wines by the glass? Check Something Italian? Check Bonus points: Something local? Check The wine list at The Dogwood in Hamden takes care of pretty much everything I need out of a restaurant wine [...]
Red, White, and Drunk All Over is a print version of wine writer Natalie MacLean’s jaunt through the wine world. Written as if the reader is riding shotgun through MacLean’s own experiences, the book cruises through the famous places, characters, and occupations in the wine without missing a beat. The appeal of this book is [...]
This month’s issue (July 2008) of Decanter magazine ran an article from Margaret Rand on Wine Dynasties in Australian Wineries. The first paragraph laments the typical family life cycle of an American winery, concluding: There you are, needing a winemaker or a vineyard manager, and all your children want to do is make up rhymes [...]
Wine and commercialism. Art and profit. Mondovino, a 2004 documentary shot through shaky hand held cameras led by Jonathan Nossiter examines the two sides of the wine coin and ends of as you would expect, leaning far away from globalization in the wine industry. The documentary leads off in France just as Robert Mondavi Winery [...]
I can go on with a flowery book review telling you how lovely it is to read Kermit Lynch’s seminal book on French wine in the 1970s. But that’s not really the style of this blog. The style of the blog is to get right to the point: If you’re starting to get serious about [...]
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