Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
I apologize to those who have obsessively been clicking “refresh” since Thursday evening in anticipation of my review. Before I talk about the wines themselves, it’s important to operationalize our terms, which is a fancy way of saying, let’s figure out what these things really are. Syrah: aka Shiraz, a red grape grown in France’s …
I had a few moments to relax when I got home from work today, so I picked up the paper and went immediately to the Living Section to catch up on the hijinks of Garfield, Cathy, and the like (I get my news from NPR). The Jumble, which is a word puzzle that’s solved by …
With today being President’s Day, I thought it would be fitting to honor one of the founding fathers of both the country and viticulture in America: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1846). Granted, the founding of the United States went a little better than the whole wine thing due to the sensitivity of the European grape vines (Vitis …
Happy belated Valentine’s Day! I hope it was happy and that you had some wonderful imbibing with your sweetie and/or your favorite vintage. Just a couple of blog updates: My guest blogger for last weekend bailed, and the wine-mary polls are going to be open until I get enough votes to declare a winner for …
Due to poor voter turnout (except for the awesome Dan) and the fact that I couldn’t go stump for votes at the Java Monkey wine tasting last Thursday due to the flu, the grape primary has been extended for another week. A guest blogger will review the wines from the JM tasting later this weekend. …
I had originally thought to do a “super-Tuscan Tuesday,” but seeing as it’s also Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras, our dinner plan is pancakes and other breakfast-ish foods with the beverage of choice being decaf Southern Pecan Creme coffee from O’Henry’s in Birmingham. So, in honor of the presidential primaries, here is a ticket to vote on. …
First, allow me to say: well, damn, I was really hoping New England would do it. Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system… Hubby and I poured for the Sherlock’s wine tasting yesterday, which was titled, “Superbowl Showdown.” I’ll be honest, I drank beer this evening to go with my burger and …
Last night, my husband and a couple of our friends braved the cold, wet weather to go to Palate, a wine and dessert bar in the Oakhurst area. Yes, it’s a wine blogger reviewing Palate. I figured I would start easy. We chose the “cheese plate” appetizer, which ended up being enough cheese, bread, olives, …