It’s not often that a wine guy avoids a wine region by choice. Yet that’s more-or-less where I’ve found myself when it comes to France’s Burgundy, home of both ethereally-exquisite, mind-blowingly-good wines and overpriced, cabbage-in-the-bathwater bad swill, with little to guide the consumer from choosing one over the other apart from painstakingly acquired detailed knowledge…
Category: elegant wines
Surprising Stars From Aussie Wine’s “A+” NYC Event
Considering that I’ve been so surprised by the high quality of some Aussie white wines in the last several months, it seems surprising that I should be surprised at all when Aussie wine surprises me these days. And yet, my mind is simple enough (and apparently entrenched enough in its own little preconceived notions) that…
The Age-Worthy Taste Of Serendipity, Finger Lakes Style
Few things in life taste as sweet (figuratively, anyway) as serendipity. For me, one of the simplest but most rewarding of life’s little pleasures is to reach randomly in the wine sample pool, and by lucky happenstance come up with something pleasantly surprising – which is exactly what happened to me late last week. Last…
An Elegant Date-Night Double-Team
When you are parents to an active, creative, inquisitive, overtly-social, never-seems-to-stop-talking-like-EVER toddler, you don’t mess around when it comes to date night. You’ve got something along the lines of three hours to enjoy dinner, drink wine and indulge in adult conversation. This is not, therefore, a time for risky experimentation. You do not go for…