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…
A Rock Star at a Wine Conference? Awwwww YEAH! (More On Wine Future 2023)
I am getting increasingly STOKED about the upcoming Wine Future 2023 conference (held November 7-9 in Coimbra, Portugal). This is, of course, in no small part due to the fact that I will be on stage at Wine Future 2023 with none other than F–KING ROCK LEGEND Bruce Dickinson of F–KING Iron Maiden. I just…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 28, 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…
Yo Yo YO Sannio! (A Sannio Campania Deep Dive in Philly)
A few months ago, I braved the utter hellishness of I-76 rush hour traffic (along with several other fine Philadelphia-area wine pro folks) to attend a media dinner at the venerable Old City restaurant Panorama. The star attraction? Wines from Italy’s Sannio DOC in Campania. Sannio was awarded DOC status in the 1990s, though its…