Encouraging Sip-Ignorance It’s advantageous to know what you’re sipping, I understand.. vintage, varietal, AVA, sub-AVA, sub-sub-AVA, and whatever […]
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2013 Cartograph Wines Pinot Noir, Choate Vineyard, Green Valley: Seraphic from the first contact to palate’s end. Thick […]
Sipping some of the Merlot I bought yesterday at Gundlach Bundschu, the ’12, and I can see why […]
Stephen & Walker, 2013 Oak Knoll Cabernet Sauvignon — Inveigling quality from start of sip to summation; one […]
Can only write so much, I’m finding. Behind on my daily NaNoWriMo contribution. Over 200 words short. I’ll […]
That wooing style of Pinot I love, and chase, but rarely find. But I have it now, oh […]
Aperture Cellars, Alexander Valley, Red Wine, 2011 A wildly vocal blend, Bordeaux varietals, Cab/Malbec, and one that commands […]
I started by asking him what his “oenological voice” was, rather than just plainly what his style was […]
It had been a while since I last tasted the Grenache from one of my favorite little producers […]
And it had been, what… 5 years since I went last? For this year’s mission and chapter I […]