Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
As we learned last week at the wine bloggers’ conference in Oregon, Pinot Noir grapes tend to reflect where they’re grown down to the soil type and the weather. In 2010, a couple of oenophile friends of ours decided their lives needed a little excitement, so they pitted Pinot Noir wines from around the world …
Mountains Pair Well with Wine In anticipation of this year’s Wine Bloggers Conference, Hubby and I drove through Georgia wine country last weekend to pick up a few bottles to share and more to drink ourselves. We had been to several of the wineries before and decided to try out a few new ones. I …
I have a phobia of blind wine tastings. It’s not severe enough to warrant treatment, but they still make me very nervous. You see, when you’ve been deemed as someone who knows about wine, people expect you to know what you’re tasting. I frequently don’t. What gets in the way? Expectations. Consider a recent study …