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…
Month: November 2011
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…