If you are under any delusions about lower (under 14% abv) alcohol wines being inherently superior to higher (15% abv and above) alcohol wines, let my recent foray into the lonesome and loathsome territory of sweating profusely from dehydration and feeling nauseous in the middle of the night be a beacon of light guiding you…
Category: elegant wines
Same Old Song (Ridge Lytton Springs Recent Releases)
“We sing the same old songJust like a vintage car,You can look, but you won’t ever drive it.We drink the same old wineFrom a brand new jar,We get hung-over, but we always survive it.”– “New Song” by The Who Some tasks are just… unenviable. Take, for example, trying to say something new about iconic California…
Come Original (On Negative Reviews, #WBC14, Boring Wine Writing, & Non-Boring Wines)
“A warning to the crews out there who think they’re hot, if you’re not original rockers you will get shot down by the kids neglectin’ your art, the stuff you did, eventually it get so bad puts you to bed ’cause when the lightning flashes sweet electricity, all the world then stands revealed with the…
“One Foot Old World, One Foot New World” (Quivira Recent Releases)
Ask Quivira winemaker (sorry, winegrower, as they prefer to call him) Hugh Chappelle for the Cliff Notes version of their style, and this is what you’ll get: “One foot Old World, one foot New World.” That’s a pretty darned good summation, based on my recent visit to their Dry Creek Valley winery. I should give…