Travel & Tasting Notes From A Couple of Wine Lovers
Coming up with novel wine tastings for visiting friends is a challenge when half your bottles are California Cabs and the other half are a polyglot selection of favorites from wineries near and far. What's the common thread? Varietal? Terroir? Year? After scouring the cellar, we found our theme: 2019 -- Two Chards. Two Cabs.… Continue reading NY vs. California Smack Down: 2 Cabs, 2 Chards, One Year
When friends from California came calling this summer, we made them feel right at home with a casual tasting of 2020 and 2021 releases of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. We paired two lesser-known producers with a couple of Napa superstars but when those four didn't completely delight, we hastily added a 2019 also drawn from… Continue reading Pine Ridge Napa Cab ’19 Smokes the Competition in Five-Wine Tasting
New Finds from the Boston Wine Expo After a Covid-inflicted hiatus, the Boston Wine Expo was back in March 2023, with new ownership, a smaller venue, and a more professional ambiance. Shifting from the cavernous World Trade Center to the more intimate Park Plaza Hotel Ballroom was a smart move. Less cattle-call, more sip and… Continue reading 12 Wines to Love Now
2015: Crossed-Up Blind Tasting — Napa CabernetsI'm an old Jethro Tull fan. One of my favorites from Aqualung is “Cross-Eyed Mary” whose opening line is “Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief --if he had a rich man in his hand? And who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's… Continue reading Recovered From the Archives: Blind Tasting 2015
