Get Your Spurs On
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample. Still digging into those deep dark reds for the winter months here in VA. Though I awoke yesterday to find that my daffodils had started blooming. That just isn’t right. We’ve barely even had enough cold days to make a fire in the woodburning stove this year!...
Train Wreck!
Continuing on the theme of big winter reds, we dug deep into the cellar for this gem. In 2009 I, along with a bunch of other bloggers, invaded Calaveras County, specifically the town of Murphys, CA. One of our stops on that trip was Newsome Harlow, a favorite of mine from my first visit to...
Riesling from Napa
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. I know what you are thinking. Napa? Riesling? Really? Yes really, and it’s good. I can’t say that I’ve had a lot of Riesling from Napa. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever previously had any. The 2010 Cornerstone Stepping Stone Riesling registers at...
Rock This Way
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong. Although our weather is still oddly behaving as if it’s spring rather than winter, I’m getting in the big red wines while I still am in the winter mindset! We have had a few random colds days here and there, and that’s when we...
Time to Sparkle!
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Sorry for the radio silence! Christmas and my daughter’s first birthday being within 3 days of each other left me with little time to write. Though plenty of occasions to raise a glass of bubbly and toast, which is what we did with the...
A Carneros Delight
A few weeks ago I took part in many Taste Live events surrounding the Napa Valley Film Fest. Over the course of 4 days I tasted a ton of great wines from Napa helping to celebrate the Film Fest from afar. I’ll always take a good excuse to drink in the middle of the day!...
Sparkle Some More
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Natural Wine Merchants. I have been all about the bubbles in the last couple of weeks. It must be the holidays. Picture me singing, totally off-key because I’m pretty tone deaf: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. .” Yes indeed, I have the holidays...
Sparkle this Season
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. Thursday of last week was the annual arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau from France. That is really not my thing, so I celebrated by drinking French wine, but not Beaujolais Nouveau. The holidays tend to make people think of sparkling...
A Little Port, Please
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. On a cold, blustery night, with a fire roaring in the wood stove, what could be better to cap off the evening than a glass of port? Not much. With daylight savings in full effect, the nights are long and...
Drink with Me and Rodney Strong!
Last week I participated in a Twitter Taste Live Event with Rodney Strong featuring holiday wines. On Dec. 6 we are repeating the experience and hoping that some of our readers will join us live and taste along! For all the details, go here and I hope to see you on the 6th! Filed...
Climbing High
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the winery. Clif Family Winery is brought to you by the same folks who make Clif bars. Now, I must admit that I can be a bit skeptical of branching out from one product line to something completely different, but the Clif...
Happy Half Decade Wannabe Wino!
Five years ago today (or perhaps it was a few days before that since it took me a couple days to get this whole blogging thing set up and then maybe a few more to decide I actually wanted to push “publish” on the blog) I said to Mr. Wannabe Wino: “Hey, I think I’m...
