Piedmont: Picking with Pio Boffa

in The Wine Connoisseur
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Wine Tasting

It’s harvest in Piedmont and Pio Boffa, owner of the renowned Pio Cesare winery, is our guide. See grapes being picked, ...

Ravensworth Sangiovese 2007

in Winorama
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Wine Tasting

Only 200 dozen made and I’m late getting on to it. Hopefully there’s a bit left.. Earth, black cherry, spice, ...

Jet Trail

in Wine Camp Blog: a points-free zone
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Wine Tasting

A jet trail is lost against a big sky west coast sunset.

Txak Full of Minerals

in Élevage
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Wine Tasting

A while back, the ever bashful "slightly buzzed floozy" (her words, not mine) Melissa M. posted a request in a well know wine ...

"Strange Decanters of the Weird Kind"

in Cuvée Corner
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

Early Summer at Talula's Table

in McDuff's Food & Wine Trail
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

The phone at Talula's still rings off the hook at the crack of dawn each day, as eager diners-to-be wear out their speed dial ...

Checking up on Bonny Doon's Journey into Biodynamics

in Good Wine Under $20
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

I've written before on the site about Randall Grahm's efforts to take the sprawling and eclectic wine enterprise that is Bonny Doon and turn it ...

Bogged Down

in Seattle Wine Blog
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

Bogged down by moving, so no bandwidth for blogging for a while. Don't worry we are not leaving Seattle, just packing shelves of books and boxes of wine.

Doux date

in oenoLogic
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

North of Bize-Minervois, the rocks scattered throughout the seemingly endless vineyards that carpet this region turn white, ...

"It's Too Hot For Red"

in Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Wine Tasting

So proclaimed the "server." Quotes for the word "server" because the only thing she shared with a professional server is that she carried the food we ordered from the kitchen to our table.

I don't normally trash a restaurant on this blog because we can't afford the time or the money involved to re-visit a place ...