This is the final Pinot Noir we had last week. It was the cheapest & my least favorite. The nose was dominated by blackberries with a h...
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Last week was the week of Pinot Noir. After I tried the Erath Pinot Noir, I had to have more Pinot. The Hahn was really good although I li...
Italy & France both consume more wine per capita than the U.S., but the U.S. is slowly gaining on our Old World buddies across the pond....
When tasting? I am not talking about getting drunk. I went to a tasting this week that offered 40+ wines. I tasted 22 (+/-2 or 3) & at o...
From the Boston Globe... Rule No. 1: Find a good local wine shop and be loyal to it. Rule No. 2: Taste comparatively and often. Rule No. 3: ...
The evening was awesome. The wines were great. The company was great. The food....well, we weren't really there for the food & go...
I went to Joe's yesterday to get tickets to the wine tasting on Thursday (if they had a website I would link to it) & ended up picki...
I got a recipe from Kathy, my aunt, that is really good...nah, scratch that it frikkin' ROCKS! I have only had Brussel Sprouts once ...
I opened it yesterday & I immediately poured a small taste. I wasn't as deep & dark in the glass as the other syrah/shiraz/letsc...
Here is a great article from Super Market Guru by Dennis Manuel about Bordeaux. You may know I have been intrigued with France for the pas...
Well, I made it. The work week is over. I make it sound like it was a horrible 5 days, but it wasn't. Our local wine shop, Joe's,...
I am finally using my i-pod for audio. It has more or less been my personal mini-hard drive with the occasional jam session with Del the Fu...
...for La, so I am cooking. It will be coq au vin . I've done this before but I can't find the recipe I used, so I might just read...
I know we have been back for a month, but I just now got our pics on my machine & uploaded to the inter-web. Here they are. Just outside...
Head to higher ground! But only if there is Wi-Fi!!! Seems fitting to start with some coffee. This in out French press. It is some Peruvia...
The nose is plummy & definitely fruit forward. It backs it up on the palate too. Very jammy but kinda smokey with supple tannins. The fi...
We are in the middle of cooking dinner & did Yoga earlier, so I am gonna park it on the couch after dinner is on. We are having pot roa...
We grew a ton of Habs this year. So manythat we really didn't know what to do with them all. Our friends didn't want any (wusses!)...
John Coltrane rocks my world with this song ("My Favorite Things"). It almost makes me want to see "The Sound of Music"...
Nothing to do but sort through some pics & take it easy.
This week we had 2 bottles of red & one one of white & tonight I think we may open a bottle of Bubbly for a Champagne Vanilla Sauce ...
New Year's Eve we had friends over & smoked a Leg of Lamb. This is something I have been wanting to tackle since I got my smoker la...
This is a couple of bottles we had with dinner over the holidays. I cant remember what we had either Shepards Pie or Pasta Carbonara, hell...
And BLOG for that matter! What made you want to start a blog, you say? I guess I just wanted an avenue to discuss what's on my mind abou...
