Virginia, as the marketing slogan goes, is for Lovers. VA may soon be for wine lovers, especially if you’re fond of Old World style Cabernet Franc. VA is not necessarily for wine writers, however. Those are the tidbits of knowledge that I came away with anyway, after touring a handful of Loudoun County wineries with…
Category: wine review
Do You Care About Wines You (Probably) Can’t Have?
Damn my over-processing brain. I was going to write about two wines that I tasted last week while I was in in Napa & Sonoma for the Wine Bloggers Conference… technically I was actually (sweltering) in Tacoma when I tasted them, but I received the wines in Napa & Sonoma… Anyway, I was going to…
Ambiguously Gay Marketing, French Bocce, & a CA 2nd Label (Sampling Pétanque)
I liked Mike Brunson almost immediately. When I met the Michel-Schlumberger winemaker, it was a brilliantly sunny and warm October day in Sonoma, and the Michel-Schlumberger estate was certainly living up to its reputation in terms of gorgeous places to visit in Dry Creek Valley. Mike seemed pretty down to earth for someone who was…
Have Bottle, Will Gag (Reviewing Etching Expressions Custom Wine Gifts)
UPDATE: Etching Expressions contacted me in the Summer of 2012 to indicate that they offer a lot more wine choices now than what was chosen to fill the sample bottle sent to me when I penned this review back in 2009. From the looks of those choices (and the pretty reasonable prices at which some…