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Raising a Glass to a Friend - 2008 Montaluce Viognier

Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 Wine Tasting

There are many events in this life that seem to call for a celebratory drink, and perhaps none falls higher on the list than the birth of new child. My vino amigo Joe, aka the Suburban Wino, aka the wild unbranded calf of wine blogging, just became a proud papa yesterday (though I hear that his wife did all the hard work.) In honor of the new arrival, Olivia Herrig, I'm drinking some Georgia wine. Sláinte Through some covert cloak and dagger type stuff, Joe managed to get me a bottle of 2008 Montaluce Vineyards Viognier from his home state...

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Rockin' the Casbah in Walla Walla

Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 Wine Tasting

I woke up last week and came to the sudden realization that we are about two weeks away from my arrival in beautiful Walla Walla, Washington for the 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference. This is the event that us wine bloggers wait for, with breathless anticipation, all year long. This is like Christmas for winos, a great opportunity to meet online friends, taste some great wines, spend time in a great wine region, and learn how to sharpen the tools of the wine blogging trade. Oh yeah, did I mention that we get to taste some great wines? I am very...

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A Special Mission From Michigan

Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 Wine Tasting

One of the things that I have really enjoyed over the last few months has been getting to know the wines of some of the less common wine growing regions. Thanks to my friends Shannon and Cortney Casey from the Michigan By The Bottle blog, I have had the pleasure of trying several wines from Michigan recently. The Casey's are great ambassadors for Michigan wine, and have put together a great series of events called, Tweet & Taste Michigan. The next tasting, which takes place tomorrow (June 7th) at 8:00pm Eastern, will feature the wines of wineries from the Old...

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June 4 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Good No contest this week, the Good is brought to us by the good peeps at Swirl, Smell, Slurp. Her posts an awesome remix on an Eric Asimov post from last week. SSS has been rightly nominated for Best Graphics, Photography, or Presentation in the Wine Blog Awards, and this post is an example of why. I'm not going to reprint the picture, because you HAVE to go look at their site and see this amazing (and probably time-consuming to create) work of art. The Bad The Bad this week comes from a somewhat different source than I usually...

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A Boxed Wine That Doesn't Taste Like a Box - Big House Red Octavin

Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 Wine Tasting

Most of us have some pretty strong pre-conceived notions of what boxed wines taste like, with the very thought conjuring up images of Franzia dancing in our heads. Personally, most of my boxed wine experience has featured shockingly un-wine like offerings, but I have been excited to try some of the more recent offerings in this category lately. I really like the idea of boxed wine in a lot of ways. There are great environmental arguments to be made in favor of some of these new packaging types, you have the ability to spread out the consumption of the wine...

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Does Varietal Correctness Matter?

Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 Wine Tasting

The minute I decided to write this post, I knew that the title alone might unleash a firestorm the likes of which this blog has not seen before. Wine drinkers are a passionate lot, and there are very strong opinions when it comes to what makes a good wine. I'll save you all a little suspense and say from the outset that I don't think that varietal correctness ALWAYS matters in every situation, but let me explain myself before you throw any large stones in my general direction. For the serious wine connoisseur, or for professional critics, varietal correctness is...

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May 28 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, May 28, 2010 Wine Tasting

The GoodI don't think that there is a blogger out there who more seamlessly meshes pop-culture and wine than that wily, unbranded calf (he prefers the term "maverick") of wine blogging, Joe Herrig of Suburban Wino. This week he has done it again, with a great analysis of the series finale of Lost. While I didn't find it quite as unsatisfying as Joe did, I can definitely understand his criticism, and love the way that he compared the episode to a corked bottle of classic wine. The Bad For those of us who are self-proclaimed winos, there is little that...

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If Tonight Were My Last Meal on Earth...

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 Wine Tasting

Tonight my wife made lasagna for dinner, and when I say "made", I mean that she placed a Stouffer's Lasagna in the oven. It was one of those nights, where neither of us had the energy to really cook dinner, so the easy solution was pretty intriguing. I find that Garfield and I have quite a bit in common when it comes to lasagna, and even more so when you pair it with a nice Sangiovese, although I don't remember our little orange feline sipping on Chianti. Regardless, I come pretty damn close to a spiritual experience when I take...

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The Poetry of Robert Parker

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 Wine Tasting

I stumbled upon this poem, written by Wyn Cooper, that is comprised of phrases used by super-critic Robert Parker. Thought that you might enjoy reading it - Reading Parker The whites taste of anise, quinine, quartz, pears left to bloom in Provencal sun—reds masculine, broad-shouldered and hedonistic in a superexpressive road tar candied red cherry kind of way unlike the slow road to Beaune this winter afternoon, the only smell the Opel’s heater on our feet as we drive into a life we hope will look like this: sun-drenched gravel covering a base of chalk, what the earth is made...

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The Poetry of Robert Parker

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 Wine Tasting

I stumbled upon this poem, written by Wyn Cooper, that is comprised of phrases used by super-critic Robert Parker. Thought that you might enjoy reading it - Reading Parker The whites taste of anise, quinine, quartz, pears left to bloom in Provencal sun—reds masculine, broad-shouldered and hedonistic in a superexpressive road tar candied red cherry kind of way unlike the slow road to Beaune this winter afternoon, the only smell the Opel’s heater on our feet as we drive into a life we hope will look like this: sun-drenched gravel covering a base of chalk, what the earth is made...

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Wine Education - Just Another Brick in the Wall?

Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 Wine Tasting

Ed Thralls has an interesting post up on the Wine Tonite blog about wine education in the US, and how it compares to our cousins across the pond in the UK. I can't say that I was terribly surprised by the results of the analysis presented by Wine Intelligence at the London International Wine Fair. It seems that American wine consumers have undergone some conditioning over the years that has retarded their education. Ed asks the following question - ...it certainly seems that those in the US are less “aware” of most popular wine-producing regions than those in the UK,...

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Wine Education - Just Another Brick in the Wall?

Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 Wine Tasting

Ed Thralls has an interesting post up on the Wine Tonite blog about wine education in the US, and how it compares to our cousins across the pond in the UK. I can't say that I was terribly surprised by the results of the analysis presented by Wine Intelligence at the London International Wine Fair. It seems that American wine consumers have undergone some conditioning over the years that has retarded their education. Ed asks the following question - ...it certainly seems that those in the US are less “aware” of most popular wine-producing regions than those in the UK,...

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The Top Ten Things I Learned During Taste Texas

Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Taste Texas event last week was not only a lot of fun, but it was also informative. There were several lessons that I learned during the tasting, and a few things that I was reminded of. Here are ten observations: 1. Different folks, different strokes - This was really an old lesson that was reinforced during the tasting. There are some wines that I don't enjoy that other do (and vice versa), and there is nothing wrong with that. 2. There is a lot of interest in Texas wine, both inside the state and outside - When I first...

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The Top Ten Things I Learned During Taste Texas

Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Taste Texas event last week was not only a lot of fun, but it was also informative. There were several lessons that I learned during the tasting, and a few things that I was reminded of. Here are ten observations: 1. Different folks, different strokes - This was really an old lesson that was reinforced during the tasting. There are some wines that I don't enjoy that other do (and vice versa), and there is nothing wrong with that. 2. There is a lot of interest in Texas wine, both inside the state and outside - When I first...

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