Articles Posted in the All About Wine Category
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IT’S HARVEST TIME!
We’re embarking on the beginning of autumn, which means school is back in session, those sweltering summer days are over (well, at least it’s not as hot), you’re constantly checking your fantasy football lineup, and somehow the holidays are already just around the corner. But that’s not all… for those of us in the Northern [...]
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Vive la France!
French Wines on Bastille Day
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The Very Unique Spanish Basque Wine Country
Every year when the sun beats us to a pulp in Texas, white wine sales soar. Not quite as high as beer sales but we’re working on it. While you see all the usual suspects on the shelves, I’m always looking for something new to try. I want to share with you a fairly obscure [...]
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Pink Wines (please keep reading)
With spring nearing, you will begin to see pink wines accumulating in markets around town. It’s a welcome sight to those of us in the wine profession. It is much the same feeling as swapping our coats and scarves for sundresses and open toed shoes. Each year, we eagerly await the new vintage rosé wines [...]
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What Exactly is Beaujolais?
You’ve seen them on the shelves while shopping for your holiday meals. November and December have become “Beaujolais time”, largely due to always-contentious Beaujolais Nouveau being released on the third Thursday of the former. Most consumers of the simplistic wine use it for their Thanksgiving dinner. If the light, fruity, simple flavors of Nouveau certainly [...]
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Valpolicella, Italy – An Undiscovered Gem
It’s peaceful here in the hills of Valpolicella, a small wine-producing region in the Northeast corner of Italy that makes some of the most unique and finest wines in the world. The grapes are growing on their vines, soaking in the sun, waiting for maturity and the fall harvest. But only the occasional tourist ventures [...]
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Skin-Contact and Obelisk
With a title like that, this article could go in a few different directions, right? No such luck. It’s going in the direction of a great restaurant and an orange wine. I’ve been fortunate with my work to have traveled to beautiful places and eaten in some of the best restaurants. It’s hard for one [...]
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Terroir – pronounced ‘Tair Wa’
Is wine influenced by the geography or terroir surrounding the vineyard? Terroir(tair wa)is a French word which doesn’t fully translate into English, but basically means all of the agricultural elements that are in play in any given specific vineyard or area, including the makeup of the soil and the microclimate. Some say “Sense of place” [...]
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How to Navigate a Wine List
A few months ago, my friend Laura called me from a great little tapas bar in Venice Beach called Primativo. Here’s a rough draft of the dialogue…I answer “Hey, whatcha doin?”. Laura says, “I’m at Primativo in Venice Beach, what wine should we order?” All I can think is what Laura normally likes…otherwise, a blank [...]
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