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…
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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…
On Demand Reviews: Dashe Cellars Recent Releases
Today… well, today is all about downtown Oakland’s vinous urban success story, Dashe Cellars – because YOU demanded it. Well, technically not YOU exactly, unless you’re Martin Dredmond. Martin was one of two winners of the 1WD ZAP 2012 Zinfandel Festival tickets giveaway, in which the ticket winners also determined which Zinfandels I would be…
Holiday Reservations (Putting Mondavi Reserves Under The Christmas Dinner Grindstone)
For all of my talk about not digging big-ass wines, I sure do seem to end up talking about a lot of “good” big-ass wines. Take this past Christmas, for example. We host some extended family every third Christmas or so, as part of a rotation that has us visiting Florida and Washington on the…