Portugal’s Cartuxa is fairly well-known for being one of two wineries run by a wide-ranging non-profit foundation (focusing on developing the Évora region culturally). It’s equally well-known for being named after a monastery and having roots going back to 15th Century Jesuit monks, and still employing amphora from the 1800s. But Cartuxa is most famous…
Category: elegant wines
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part Three (Through the Wayback Machine with Hesperian Wines)
In this edition of our sipping during the time of SIP (Samples In Progress, during Shelter In Place), we’re setting the Wayback machine for 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2016, as we go back in time and into the samples pool with Napa Valley’s perennially misunderstood Hesperian Wines. I was provided this in-home vertical tasting opportunity…
Two From the Road (Sicily Wrap-up)
Things move a bit more on rilassato side when you’re dealing with Sicily. Which is the excuse that I’m employing to justify only now (a mere six months later) getting around to finishing up my disparate coverage from my last media tour there. While I don’t exactly miss the act of traveling itself during this…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus (What We Drank on My Sequestered Birthday)
Well, folks… sh*t is definitely real right now. Unusually for this extrovert, I had to celebrate my birthday in self-imposed sequestered fashion, a precaution taken to help practice social distancing and hopefully do a small part in flattening the curve of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, due to the ever-expanding wine sample pool (yes, I’m…