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! [...]
Read more →Wow, February has flown by, hasn’t it? Feeling grateful to have that extra day tomorrow to finish up the February Wine Roundup post. Meanwhile, here are a few favorite things that caught my attention during the month: The grilled trout here — a perfectly balanced, absolutely delicious dish, with addictive crispy bits… This documentary for a [...]
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I recently attended an oyster tasting led by Erin Byers Murray, author of Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm. The tasting was held at Houston’s Brasserie 19 and featured Erin talking about her experience spending a year working for a Massachusetts oyster company while we tasted through a lineup of the briny bivalves [...]
Read more →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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