Last week I received my Wine Q shipment, in which Marshall included a very interesting white blend as a review sample. But before I could dive in, I remembered I still had something to review from the previous shipment. It was under my desk at work, along with all the other bottles that I allow to […]
A while back, I said I would write about the 2005 JC Cellars The Flip Side. Except I didn’t know what was in it. Having bought the bottle on my first visit to the winery back in October, I only remembered the tasting room gal mentioning that Jeff (Cohn, as in ‘JC’) had put the […]
I’m not the kind of girl who has to have Riedel and a perfect white backdrop to enjoy a good bottle of wine. It can be drunk out of plastic glassware on a slightly rough picnic table by the light of a Coleman lantern. Saturday after work, I drove to a campsite at Lake Chabot. All I had to worry […]
The other evening BK had great plans to grill up buffalo filets with truffled garlic mashed potatoes. Comfort food kicked up a few notches. I thought a Syrah would be a good partner for the earthiness and full flavors of the meal, so I dug through the mess that is our ‘wine cellar’ until I […]
When I was trying to decide which bottle to open for OTBN, another contender was the 2001 Shafer Relentless, also from Napa. The bottle looks to run about $65, but it was given to me by a big wine lover who knew I liked Petite Sirah and blends. This vintage is 81% Syrah and 19% Petite Sirah. […]
My friend Chris, who works as a chemist in the Rosenblum lab, came back from another trip to Thailand and brought back with him some wine made in the northeastern part of the country. I was surprised to find out that there even is Thai wine, though, I guess I shouldn’t have been, what with […]
From what I can gather, amplus is Latin for large and plentiful. The 2004 Amplus One is a red blend (70% Carmenere, 26% Syrah, and 4% Carignan) from the Maipo Valley in Chile that I opened the other night when BK made tri-tip. This wine produced by Santa Ema was rather big, true, but did not seem that plentiful as […]
It’s rare that I go all out and cheat completely at making a home-cooked meal, but the few times I do, I like to drink a good bottle of wine to ease the guilt. Case in point: the night before last. Since I wasn’t around much the past couple weeks, I didn’t have any produce […]
Last Sunday found me back in Cupertino, working on more Bonfire Vineyards wine. This time, I knew exactly what to do and got to sanitizing the tools and containers right away. The plan was to press the Cabernet Sauvignon and the Syrah. The first was a batch of grapes from Los Altos Hills, near to […]
Hewitson was one of my favorite makers of Shiraz back home when I was drinking more of it. And this column that was published in the Jackson Free Press a couple of weeks ago has to be one of my favorites I’ve written (next to the one about pasta puttanesca). So have a read […]
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