Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Last night’s JavaMonkey tasting was advertised as “Sustainable Wines.” It turned out to be “Sustainable Wines from one particular winery in Chile.” However, considering it was brought to us by the same distributor who gave Jess the 2006 cask of Nouveau for the Beaujolais release party a couple of weeks ago, I’m not going to …
Now that I’ve recovered from my travels to Europe and have decided to drop NaNoWriMo, I can get back to blogging. Yay! Just in case you missed it, the 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau was released last Thursday. We and several other oenophiles celebrated with a release party at JavaMonkey. In spite of some slight snags like …
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 …
I apologize in advance for any typos in this post. I’m writing with a 15-lb cat sitting on my right hand. It’s kind of like in the old Anglican “Book of Common Prayer,” wherein someone gets to “sitteth upon the right hand. And purreth at the notion of yummy red wine.” Okay, maybe that last …
As an oenophile who also happens to really like food, I love wine dinners, especially ones where someone else does all the pairing work for me. As luck would have it, I have two to report on this week. They actually took place last week, but I’m still playing catch up. On September 21, Hubby …
Normally I’m wary of tastings limited to just one winery because as we’ve discovered on our wine trips, sometimes you just don’t like anything from a particular place. Luckily the featured vineyard, Del Rio Vineyards and Winery, located in Rogue Valley, Oregon, had a good range of wines, several of which were very nice. 2007 …
Gentle readers, The Random Oenophile apologizes to all of you for being so slack about updating the blog lately. This is a time of great turmoil and transition, and I humbly beg your forgiveness. I shan’t insult you with excuses except to say that managed care companies are a sadistic lot that have kept me …
Yep, I’ve gotten behind again, but this week’s post is a nice long one. Starting one’s own small business takes a lot of time. And paperwork, let’s not forget the paperwork. The irony is that one of the reasons I went into business for myself is that I was tired of having to depend on …
When someone mentions the “ABC’s of wine,” sometimes they mean the basics, and sometimes they’re referring to “Anything But [that boring] Cabernet and Chardonnay, please!!!” The JavaMonkey tasting this week was the latter. Here are the wines in the order that they were poured (numbers one and two on the tasting list were switched): 2007 …
I have a lot to catch up on, but I wanted to go ahead and post my review of The Grange. Hubby and I arrived at Decatur’s new Irish pub at about 6:45 and found it to be pretty crowded with only one table available outside and a couple of empty ones inside. We chose …