Purchased for $20 at The Wine Market. Golden yellow color, looking think and viscous in the glass. Smelled almost like an Alsatian Pinot Gris at first, but that gave away to lots of oak after a few minutes. Sharp, biting acidic taste which is out of character for a Viognier (vee-ohn-yay) so [...]
This week I’m participating in a project featured on drinklocalwine.com. Headed by Jeff Siegel and Dave McIntyre, drinklocalwine.com was put together to highlight the “everywhere else” in American wine regions. Since “wine country” means west coast to so many wine drinkers, the project is going to draw attention to wines from where you [...]
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I’m a fan of the Bin 604 monthly bargain case where you pick up 12 wines for $99. The retail value of the wines is usually around $130, so you’re getting a little break on the price. The wines inside fall on the quality spectrum as you [...]
This was supposed to be one of those run-off-the-mill wine blog posts.
1) I bought it
2) I drank it
3) I blogged about it
4) Post a picture (optional)
5) Profit!
I strive to inject humor and my own brand of witty repartee into the blog posts, but not this time. This time, I was going with [...]
The fog peeled down off of Twin Peaks. I pulled the hood of my hoodie up to keep the chill off during another typical San Francisco summer day.
I turned into Chronos, my favorite wine shop in Noe Valley. Boxy, dusty. Bottles stacked to the ceiling. It looked and smelled like [...]
Saturday night, The Wife was out of town visiting friends and left me all alone to fend for myself for the night. In the early days, this would have turned into a savage situation involving beer, pizza, and an XBOX 360 marathon. But now, the worldly and civilized wine blogger that I am prevailed and [...]
Coming from up in the mountains of Floyd, Virginia, The 2006 Chateau Morrisette Cabernet Sauvignon was lighter in in the glass than most Cabernets. Those accustomed to big, powerful Napa heavyweights will find that this wine looks and behaves more like a Dolcetto or middleweight Rhone varietal.
The wine smelled Earthy, something that I haven’t [...]
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Break out the bubbly! The Wine Market carries the Kluge Blanc de Blanc in the wonderful half bottle size. The Wife and I split one over steamed crabs and corn on Friday night. Without knowing it, we were ushering in the boiling Baltimore summer. It has been humid and hot nonstop this [...]
You’ll rarely find a Virginia wine that’s six years old. Most aren’t built to age and, even f they are built to age, the bottle get popped long before they collect much dust in the cellar. I picked up the Kluge Estate New World Red after it won my BWIT at the Virginia [...]
Almost four weeks ago I set out two bottles of Selbach Riesling Dry at a party and encouraged partygoers to record their thoughts for Wine Blogging Wednesday. There was no other way to describe the effort other than FAIL.
But where there is death, there is life. The host of said party had a [...]
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