I recently had the pleasure of attending a wine/plate pairing at the fabulous Teikoku restaurant in PA. The food, as always, was stellar (I suppose that’s par for the course for anything prepared by Iron Chef Takao Iinuma). The wines (selected and poured by wine educator, Matthew Esser from Shiffrin Selections and wine educator and…
Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Wine Blogger
So… you wanna be a wine blogger, eh? [ Editor’s note: sorry, did not mean to sound Canadian there…]. Well, I’m here to tell ya NOT to do it. Now, before you flame me with nasty e-mails and comments, please bear in mind that I will be following up this post next week with three…
Wine Blogging Wednesday #47: Brought to You by the Letter ‘S’
Welcome to the latest edition of Tales of the Purple Monkey! This month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday blog carnival has Plumboo and I contemplating the theme: “Wines Brought to You by the letter S.” Like a fine wine grape, that one is just ripe for interpretation! Finding a wine that starts with the letter S was…
Run Away with Me… to Spain!
Well, if not physically, then run away with me virtually, through the magic of the “Global Interweb.” Or whatever you crazy young cats are calling it these days! Regular readers of this blog might recall that I’ve previously lamented the general lack of quality, easy-to-find Spanish & Portuguese wines in my area of the U.S….