As you read this, I’ll be in Hungary, a trip of which half is a curated media tour, and half a working stint doing video interview stuff that I will discuss later, but about which I am particularly excited (not just because it’s a paying gig, but also because it involves one of my personal…
Category: elegant wines
Day For Night (Two Bright Stars From The High End Of The Sample Pool)
“Why you want to keep trying? You never get it right When you could be living day for night Live my dream There’s no dancing in between Why not let it go?” – “Day for Night” by Spock’s Beard Quite often, I find myself delving into the wine sample pool and coming up empty. Not…
A Quiet Resistance (Eyrie Vineyards Original Vines Pinot Noir, In Retrospect)
Generally speaking, when you’re attending a Pinot Noir masterclass-style tasting hosted by one of a wine region’s most historically significant properties, it’s not considered good form to giggle like an eight year-old girl. Which, of course, didn’t stop me from doing it. The trouble was, I just found the irony so damned funny, it was…
Cuckoo And Cocka-doodle-doo (Coquerel And Toquade Recent Sauvignon Blanc Releases)
At this point, I think that we’ve established that Bordeaux native Christine Barbe is at least a little bit crazy. Very talented, but a little crazy. Crazy enough to justify the namesake of her personal brand, Toquade, anyway. She has, after all, devoted a significant portion of her current winemaking career to – egads! –…