Given its current darling status among the wine media cognoscenti, I suppose that I should have been predisposed to like the wines that Rhys Vineyards is plying. But the first two minutes of a Zoom tasting with winemaker Jeff Brinkman (formerly of R.H. Phillips, Antica, and Husch Vineyards & Winery) almost sealed the deal before…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for October 9, 2023
I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read…
Not Dead Yet (Thoughts on 1WD Radio Silence)
Greetings, and apologies from 1WD central. Normally, I’d use an introductory paragraph such as this one to opine that my lateness in updating this website is due to the fact that I have a toddler, but in this case that actually wouldn’t be honest. Well, I do honestly have a toddler, but it’s not her…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for September 4, 2023
I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read…