As you can see from the lack of posts, I have put blogging on the back burner. I have made it a point to take less pictures of what I’ve been eating &… Continue reading
While visiting a local bookstore that sells mainly used books (yes, they exist), my mother phoned me to see if she should pick up a few older wine books for me. My usual… Continue reading
Spring is here in the Garden State. We had a few days of 80+ degree days a few weeks ago, a few sporadic snow showers a couple of days after that and then… Continue reading
In case you haven’t noticed it spreading like wildfire on your favorite wine blogs, last week bloggers (myself included) tweeted and posted that the wine buyer for Costco, Annette Alvarez-Peters, asserted in an… Continue reading
This past weekend I was lucky enough to sneak off to Mount Eden Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Before we attended a wedding in Campbell, my wife and I met with the… Continue reading
A few months ago, I offered a rather rudimentary drawing that maps out what I think might be the process by which minerality expresses itself in a finished wine. A contentious issue, the… Continue reading
For those of you who do not know, I work for a wine importer that distributes wine to New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I don’t often mention my work nor write about… Continue reading
Over my third espresso this morning I read yet another wine writer claim that there isn’t a definition for natural wine. Sure there is, just as much as there is a clearly defined… Continue reading
Argentine Malbec from Mendoza. Perhaps no other grape has recently been paired with a region so successfully than the Bordeaux export. Countless examples fill shelves and wine lists – many of them quite… Continue reading
