Tangled Up In Tunes (Music’s Effect On Our Perception Of Wine)
I’ve been playing around with on-line music-and-cocktails-matching entertainment app Drinkify, and have concluded via completely non-scientific means that it is almost a total failure (at least, when it comes to one pairing in particular). It’s fun, don’t get me wrong; it’s just that it offers me the booze-pairing “beer” (I use that term loosely) suggestion...
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For November 26, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week...
An Elegant Date-Night Double-Team
When you are parents to an active, creative, inquisitive, overtly-social, never-seems-to-stop-talking-like-EVER toddler, you don’t mess around when it comes to date night. You’ve got something along the lines of three hours to enjoy dinner, drink wine and indulge in adult conversation. This is not, therefore, a time for risky experimentation. You do not go for...
Help Prevent Embarrassing Drunken Moments This Holiday Season With Our iPhone App Giveaway!
Now that you’ve started planning the vino you’ll be popping open for the holidays, the last thing you want to do is go and spoil all the fun by drinking too much and making a fool out of yourself at your next social gathering (for example, getting drunk enough that you think using the neighbor’s...
The Dreaded Thanksgiving Holiday Wine Pairing Article, Part CCXXII
I do this because… well, honestly because I feel obligated. You know that feeling you get in undergrad where you have a term paper with about two days before it’s due and you haven’t started it yet but you have to do it? The same feeling that marked the advent of the first day of...
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For November 19, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week...
Feeling The Heat In California: Are Paso Robles Wines Too High In Alcohol?
There’s one thing you need to know about Paso Robles wine country. It can get hot. And I’m not talking about the Summertime temperatures, or even the Indian-Summertime temperatures, which had busted through the 100F mark not too long before my visit to Paso in October. No, I’m talking about the wines. After tasting through...
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For November 12, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week...
Tasting 40 Years Of A Tawny Port Icon
“Billy C. is drinking Sandeman Port down at the old café And the river goes by slowly, the river likes it that way.” - The Knuckleball Suite, Peter Mulvey In the world of wine, there are a few images that stand the test of time and can truly be described as iconic, instantly conjuring up...
Guitar Aficionado’s Winter 2011 Issue Takes On Wine And Rockers
Looks like I’m far from the only one with a penchant for interviewing rock stars about their vinous habits: the Winter 2011 issue of Guitar Aficionado has been dubbed “The Wine Issue” with interviews with wine-making and wine-collecting rockers – and it prominently features a (pretty cool) guitar-shaped decanter on the cover (see inset pic)....
1WineDude TV Episode 42: Port, Simplified!
In this episode of 1WineDude TV, I attempt to simplify one of the greatest of cool-weather beverages, Port – and I try to tell you most of what you will ever need to know about Port in under five minutes. I fail, primarily because I go way over five minutes, but along the way I...
Are Wine Critics “Wasting” Points On A Wine’s Color?