Part of the mystique and allure of wine is the marvelously inefficient packaging. Soda cans have evolved to save aluminum. Costco sells milk in updated milk containers to save stacking space. It’s the nature of the beast: be more efficient than your competitors or you will lose. While this may be true in the wine [...]
Ghost Block is produced by an outfit called Bonded Winery Number 9 based in Napa, California. 2003 was the first vintage of this Oakville Cabernet and by 2004 the wine was receiving modest praise. The Wine Spectator gave it a 92. Doug Wilder called it “Better than some of the cults.” and hung a 96 [...]
Attended a well-appointed cookout this weekend and a blind wine tasting broke out. Some of the most respected wine critics in Washington DC my friends bagged six wines and drank up, recording our data on my freshly printed wine tasting sheets. The theme was Syrah/Shiraz. Guests were asked to bring a wine where Syrah was [...]
My first-ever futures purchase was back in 2007 when The Wife and I were tooling around Northern California’s Anderson Valley. It was one of those patented California days where it’s gloriously sunny, not too hot, perfect conditions to pop open the convertible top and ride around. We stopped into Breggo on the recommendation of the [...]
May I produdly present my tasting note for the Solomons Cab Reserve, easily one the of the strongest Maryland reds that I’ve had. Deep ruby color that got darker and more purple as the night went on. Very light nose. Herd to get much of anything from it. Herbal if anything, some floral too. On [...]
Tanbark Hill is Philip Togni’s second wine, the first being an labeled as “Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon.” Togni’s website reads that wine bottled under the Tanbark Hill label is “from young vines which is sold primarily to the Trade.” This runs contrary to anecdotal evidence that I heard in 2006: that Tanbark Hill is just [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user thetejon This was the first wine I’ve knocked back from my Vinfolio Marketplace bounty. There’s something that is just awesome about cracking open a case of wines that are all different: Pulling them out, inspecting the bottles, ogling the labels, it’s not-unlike going back to 1987 ripping open [...]
No sooner did I formally break ties with Virginia than I found myself in the Shenandoah Valley tasting some of the wines that Virginia wineries have to offer. Wisteria Farm & Vineyard is a small operation where our tasting room pourer was also the owner and winemaker. That’s the kind of operation I like. I [...]
Many things in this world are much better when experienced at the source. Guinness is better in Ireland, pizza is better in Italy, and Shiraz is better down under in Australia. I never thought much of Gruner Veltliner as a marquee grape until I went to Austria and drank the juice from where the grape [...]
It’s Drink Local Wine‘s second annual Regional Wine Week. My wine rack is comepltely bare of any local wines, so how about we do like a sitcom and run a clips show with the two best and two worst local notes I’ve taken over the past year. The interesting thing about this note… Very light [...]
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