By some minor miracle, I may actually be able to attend the New York Wine Expo in March. For the last few years, I’ve had to miss this vinous shin-dig held at the ginormous Jacob K. Javits Convention Center because I’ve been roughly 2,898 miles away from it when it’s been held. But this year,…
Month: January 2012
Vintage-Dated, Premium… Grape Juice?
Imagine this scenario… You pour yourself a glass from a premium bottle, the aromatic liquid spilling forth with the tell-tale floral and stone fruit aromatics of high-quality Riesling. You take a long whiff, then a sip, swooshing the liquid around in your closed mouth to get all the volatile compounds going, noting the secondary aromas…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For January 28, 2012
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…
Weekly Wine Quiz: When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters?
Continuing our Champagne theme for the Weekly Wine Quiz, we’ve got a relatively tough question queued up this week. Let’s see which of you Champers fans really knows his or her (or, if you’re a hermaphrodite, his AND her) stuff… When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters? Champagne production is one of the…