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 …
Yes, I’m actually blogging about wine this week! I have to do that every once in a while so y’all don’t think I’m knocked up. On the other hand, a recent comment addressing me as “sir” on a post from three years ago tells me that people still think I’m a guy. I was supposed …
When Hubby and I got tired of the Taste of Decatur shenanigans a couple of weekends ago, we went for a sure thing: the free Saturday afternoon wine tasting at Sherlock’s in Decatur. As I’ve mentioned, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to drink more French wine. The topic for the tasting was “Tour …
I resolved to drink more French wines this year, so last Thursday’s tasting at JavaMonkey was greatly appreciated. Yes, it helps to make resolutions I look forward to keeping. All of the selections were imported from France’s Loire Valley by Jon David Headrick, whom I hadn’t heard of previously. The wines: 2008 Domaine de la …
Greetings, fellow Oenophiles! Hubby and I just returned from our trip to Belgium. The reason was ostensibly so we could attend my mother’s family reunion and he could meet the Belgian side of the family. However, we had our own agendas. He planned to drink his way across the country by sampling as many Belgian …