A Serious Wine Blog For the Not-So-Serious Drinker
2019 Foley Family Brut (Sta. Rita Hills): Flowers, biscuits, and a veritable orchard of green, red, and yellow apples. $65 A-
2012 Tom Gore Vineyards Field Blend (Alexander Valley): Still has a ton of vanilla, blackberry, and smooth moves. $35 B+
2010 Ehrenberg Cellars Lodi Zinfandel (California): Flexing its muscular profile of dried figs, blackberry, pepper, and smoked meat. $28 B+…
Madrevite‘s Nicola Chiucchiurlotto has one of those made-for-TV-movie prodigal son type of stories that seem so prevalent in the wine world. In 2003, Chiucchiurlotto founded Madrevite in Castiglione del Lago, which sits in the hills near lakes Trasimeno and Chiusi, along the Umbria/Tuscany border. In that way, Chiucchiurlotto would seem like a relative newcomer by…
2020 Monteabellon ’14 Mesas’ Tempranillo (Ribera del Duero): Dark! Lots of cherry, tobacco, wood spices, dried herbs, cinnamon, vanilla bean, big structure… but good acids! $39 A-
2011 Principe de Viana Tinto Reserva (Navarra): This one is ALLLL about the smoked meat course now. $NA B+
2020 Fattoria La Massa ‘La Massa’ (Toscana): Serious and seriously good; herbs both dried and fresh, red plummy fruits, and plenty of palate scaffolding. $30 A-…
When you’ve got a toddler, date nights don’t come easy. Come to think of it,m when you’ve got a toddler, most things don’t come easy. Not that we don’t love the irrepressible little tyke, but some alone adult time helps recharge the parenting batteries, right? Last month for Valentine’s Day, Shannon and I somehow made…