Archive for the ‘Consider This Wine’ Category
I like counting. I like the simple, elegant, structured and definite results you get from counting. Combine this counting fetish I have with my appreciation for criticism and you can understand why I like valuating various rating systems and results of wine rating systems. Today for some reason I started thinking about the highest rated recently released wines in the world. That though brought me to The Wine Spectator Magazine where, using their database of wine ratings, I learned something…
Some time ago, and I can’t quite recall when, I posted about the pleasure of finding just the right place to drink wine. I’m sure I stated unequivocally that the best place to do so was in laying in my hammock, in my back yard, with a glass of Rose on a warm summer evening. It turns out there is a contender for the crown. In the middle of Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe, on a warm summer day with…
So there I was, minding my own Memorial Day by the pool, reading an old copy of the New Yorker (1963: a story about the Clay/Jones fight at Madison Square Garden), when all of a sudden I poured a Cabernet down my throat that my wife put in front of me. The sun had just fallen below the tree line so the Rose had been put away. At first I was startled. "Hmmm….I’ve already had a single sip of this…
I tasted six different Viogniers yesterday accounting for 4 different appellations. They represented three different recent vintages. Not a single one delivered anything that could remotely be considered "crispness" on the palate and in most cases the best description of the texture of these wines was "flat". In my mind this is unacceptable. In fact, it leads me to the point of not even considering the varietal when I contemplate which white wine to buy or drink. I felt like…
It’s only a about a month away from the start of summer and that can only mean one thing: it’s time we start seeing zinfandel recommended to go with barbecued foods. How Zin became associated with barbecue I don’t know. But it is. This is both a blessing and a curse as far as I can tell. One the one hand, lots of people love barbecue and need a wine to go with the various styles of grilling, slow cooking…
