István Szepsy… …is a Hungarian man with serious stones. And he will gladly show them to you, if you ask. Actually, I think he might show them to you even if you don’t ask. He has them laid out on his front porch; dozens of them, organized by 21 different dulo (basically akin to climat)….
Category: on the road
Dispatch From Subterranean Hungarian Haunts (Tokaji Kereskedőház Zrt. 1972 Aszú 5 Puttonyos)
I don’t want to say that every aspect of my life is firing high on all cylinders right now, because that’s not the case. BUT … when you get sent to one of the most beautiful places on the globe to try excellent wines, work hard, then play hard, and get paid well to be…
Turn Up The Piiiiiinot (IPNC 2014 Alfresco Tasting Highlights)
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…
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…