“A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson had it right about special wines being eminently memorable, though he forgot to add the part about how wine tasting, like a hot date, owes so much to anticipation. And as much as I like to…
Category: wine tasting
Final Results Are IN for the Grü V Olympics
I recently took part in a fun experiment, in which a group of wine bloggers were sent four Austrian Gruner Veltliner wines to face-off against one another in a head-to-head tasting. The event was billed The Grü V Olympics, the idea being that each blogger scored the wines according to a predefined system with points…
Premiere Napa Valley: One Dude’s Tasting Notes
We know that I’m not terribly fond of massive tastings. I did thoroughly enjoy myself at Premiere Napa Valley, however, even if I didn’t get to try all 200 of the wines, mostly because the experience, with lots of people in close proximity to wine and to each other, is uber-social. For a gadfly like…
Robert Parker’s Job Is Safe (A Tasting Perspective on Premiere Napa Valley’s Perspective Tasting)
You probably could have guessed that Robert Parker isn’t at high risk for becoming unemployed anytime soon without me explicitly stating it, but I thought I should clear up that I’m not after his job, in case there develops any rampant speculation on that topic in the future. This is because I have never been,…