This Summer has been a season of meteorological discontent in the greater Delaware Valley. The (multiple) successive (and repressive) heatwaves might actually make the local wines interesting to taste once they’re finally bottled, but it hasn’t exactly jived with the tastes of the rest of us. In other words, it’s been too f-ing hot and…
Category: wine review
Planet of the Grapes, and “Going Publix” in Your Pocket
In my ongoing effort to, uhm, branch out in the wine world (read: get paid), I’ve got myself involved in a couple more ‘extra-blogger’ activities that I thought I’d share. They are geared more towards beginner (I know, I hate that term too, but I can’t manage a better one) wine enthusiasts and so I…
The Otter Badgers of Wine Reviews: Joining the Wine Rating Revolution
Sorry – couldn’t resist. I mean, just look at those cute, furry-cuddly, viciously-fanged mammals over there! I mean “other badges” of wine reviews, of course – in my case, I’m the late-comer to the wine badge review par-tay masterminded by Vintank; that is, late-comer in terms of getting my badges ready for prime-time (I was…
Walla Walla Syrah QED? and “Days of WA Future Past”
Has the case for excellent Walla Walla Syrah been definitively demonstrated? Q.E.D.? I’m not going to go quite that far. But I will say that they might be pretty damn close, especially in those cases where the balance beats out the brawn in their Syrah bottlings. Two wine producers that I encountered recently in Walla…