For all of my talk about not digging big-ass wines, I sure do seem to end up talking about a lot of “good” big-ass wines. Take this past Christmas, for example. We host some extended family every third Christmas or so, as part of a rotation that has us visiting Florida and Washington on the…
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Reports Of Australian Wine’s Death Hath Been Greatly Exaggerated, My Lords
Australian wine has become the red-headed stepchild of the fine wine world. But the ginger brat is still alive and kicking, people. I can hear the Aussie wine biz calling out from the cart, like the old man in the “Bring Out Your Dead” skit of Monty Python’s Holy Grail: “I’m not dead!… I think…
The Age-Worthy Taste Of Serendipity, Finger Lakes Style
Few things in life taste as sweet (figuratively, anyway) as serendipity. For me, one of the simplest but most rewarding of life’s little pleasures is to reach randomly in the wine sample pool, and by lucky happenstance come up with something pleasantly surprising – which is exactly what happened to me late last week. Last…
Stag Party (A Deeper Dive Into SLD Cab)
For all my travels to the greater Napa area, my experience with Napa’s venerable Stags Leap District hasn’t exactly been trophy-mounting-24-point-buck caliber. In fact, it’s been quite doe-like – I’ve tasted a good number of high-end wines from the area, and visited a few its producers, but aside from a stop at Chimney Rock earlier…