To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn) There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn) And a time to every purpose, under Heaven – The Byrds Let’s play a little game of word association. I say “Carneros” and you say… ___________. Budding wine geeks and geekettes out there would likely answer “Pinot Noir” or “Chardonnay” or “Sparklers” or…
Lost Grapes Get Found: Forgotten Grapes VA Tasting Event – August 18
“Doing for Forgotten Grapes what Dancing With the Stars does for forgotten celebrities.” Thus reads the tag line of Chris Kern’s website ForgottenGrapes.com, the purpose of which should hopefully at this point be glaringly obvious to you. You’ve got to like a tag line like that. Chris contacted me to invite me to one of…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-08-14
09 El Coto de Rioja Blanco (Rioja): Short on balance, but plenty long on herbs, flowers and tart citrus for the price. $9 B- # 08 Torbreck Woodcutter’s Shiraz (Barossa): Hot vintage births a hot wine. Still, it’s a great opp. to sample those 100+ yr old vines. $22 B # 08 Tres Sabores Farina…
Drinking (and Eating) in South Jersey: Amalthea and Winemaking’s “Third Wave”
If you take a map of the Bordeaux winemaking region and flip it upside down, it becomes a (more-or-less) mirror-image of the Delaware Bay area that houses the New Jersey’s Outer Coastal Plain (OCP) AVA. Yes, that would be South Jersey. Yes, they make wine there. Better wine than you might at first imagine, actually….