Well, I hardly need to say it — in fact, this is the last time I’m even going to refer to it, since I think all the collective emphasis on the subject is only making things worse. But 2008 has totally sucked, economically speaking. So, much as I love Champagne, it looks like 2009 will be [...]
Read more →These fun wine-themed holiday cards showed up recently, and I thought they were so cute that I decided to help the artist sell them. There was no time to get a fully functional shopping card up and running, so all you have to do is send in your order information, and we’ll get an invoice [...]
Read more →My apologies to anyone who couldn’t access the Wine Skinny over the last day or so. My possibly/probably soon-to-be-former hosting company had huge server issues. I’m hoping to get some satisfactory answers this week, but there may be more down time coming. Hopefully it will be minimal. (Don’t you just love spending hours on the [...]
Read more →Just to further my point from yesterday’s rant (oh how I do love to agree with myself…), here are a couple more really good, plenty big, well made reds. In all, three very different wines (with different price points), but all satisfy my need for big but balanced reds! John Duval 2006 Shiraz Barossa Valley Entity ($40). [...]
Read more →Look, I love a big red wine as much as the next person — in fact, well-made California Cabernets are among my favorite wines (along with Chateauneuf-du-Pape, big Tuscan reds, and some of those deep Douro reds, to name just a few). But there are moments that it seems there is no longer any dividing [...]
Read more →(Originally published February 2007) The cork debate has seemed curiously quiet lately – except for a couple of recent blurbs about the possible downsides of screwcaps, the issue seems to be yesterday’s news. Or is it just that the collective media felt it had wrung out as much hype as possible from the topic and [...]
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