So, in case you hadn’t guessed, I drank a bunch of wine while in Rome recently. And I kept that Italian wine train rolling for several weeks after that. So here are my notes from Rome, with a few other Italian wines I’ve recently enjoyed thrown in for good measure. I’m just guessing on some of [...]
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I’ve written it here before — I love Valentine’s Day for all its silly, romantic sweetness. The grouchy “Hallmark card created holiday” arguments don’t dent my enthusiasm one whit. Which is not to say that I’m ahead of the game, because somehow it has snuck up on me this year. It’s officially too late for [...]
Read more →To be perfectly honest, when I see a traditional European winemaking term on a California wine label, I tend to get a little nervous. And I’m not talking about the ones that I think are just plain misleading, like the continued use of the word “Champagne” on sparkling wine that doesn’t actually come from Champagne. I mean the [...]
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Each time I return to Rome, I am surprised by something. No matter how many times I meander from one favorite spot to another, there is always a moment when I see something new, which I suppose is part of the magic of the city. So much history, so much to see — even if [...]
Read more →As one of the new features of this site, I’m planning on publishing month-end roundups of wines that I’ve tasted over the previous few weeks that, for whatever reason, just didn’t fit into other posts. Think of them less as stragglers or misfits, and more as wines that were just too good to leave out! [...]
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It is a gorgeous late-January day as I write this. Clear blue skies, a crisp breeze, plenty of sunshine. I love this time of year, when there are still pleny of chilly nights ahead but a few hardy plants are beginning to show signs of the coming Spring, like this teacup magnolia tree in my [...]
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