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- Do I Love Wine That Loves?
My friend Phil reminded me about the Wine That Loves line of wines. The idea is that you buy a bottle of wine to go with the food you're eating. The labels show you the food that the wine loves, with bottles for pizza, chicken, steak, pasta with tomato...
- Some Reasons To Try Barney's
Melissa and I went to Barney's last night. For those outside the Bay Area, Barney's is a local chain of gourmet hamburger restaurants. I find their burgers decent, especially now that I've learned to avoid the specialty burgers with their...
- Bandit
(guest photographer Tim Holmes) In 2002, California suffered a wine glut. Too many grapes, too much wine, too few buyers. The press were beside themselves, gleefully anticipating reduced prices on California wines and waggling fingers at producers...
- Moving Day
Melissa and I recently decided to do something about our wine collection. It was not ideal, probably like the wine collections of most relatively new wine enthusiasts (odd as it sounds, I've only been into wine for about two years; it has been said...
- Screw Caps
Kim Crawford's 2002 "Unoaked Marlborough Chardonnay" is a good wine, if not the standout that Sauvignon Blancs from the same region are. But it is not the wine that I want to write about, it is the bottle. More specifically, the closure. For Kim...
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A Good House Wine
an easy drinking, juicy red that will go with just about anything and is still a sophisticated wine [that] doesn't come along every day...This wine is made by a well known vintner who goes by the name "Cult Wines" and, when he got his hands on some delicious wines from well known wineries, he knew he had to create the perfect blend. This medium bodied wine is dry with a little oak and balanced acidity—sure to go with just about anything that strikes your fancy.Incidentally, I love the fact that my wine club, describing the bottle, never mentions it has a screw cap. Like they want to make it this very casual thing: "Well, of course it has a screw cap!" For whatever reason, I didn't write down a tasting note for this, but Melissa and I like it a lot. I would agree with the wine club's "juicy". My friend Tom described it as, "Exactly what you'd expect from a wine named 'Big Moose Red'." We bought a case not just for a house wine but also to supply a recent party, and it was quite popular. I wouldn't pair it with a heavy meaty dish, but the wine club suggests burgers, and I'd certainly add chicken in its myriad forms, pizza or pasta, a mild Italian sausage, and other dishes with similar weight and flavor profiles.
- Do I Love Wine That Loves?
My friend Phil reminded me about the Wine That Loves line of wines. The idea is that you buy a bottle of wine to go with the food you're eating. The labels show you the food that the wine loves, with bottles for pizza, chicken, steak, pasta with tomato...
- Some Reasons To Try Barney's
Melissa and I went to Barney's last night. For those outside the Bay Area, Barney's is a local chain of gourmet hamburger restaurants. I find their burgers decent, especially now that I've learned to avoid the specialty burgers with their...
- Bandit
(guest photographer Tim Holmes) In 2002, California suffered a wine glut. Too many grapes, too much wine, too few buyers. The press were beside themselves, gleefully anticipating reduced prices on California wines and waggling fingers at producers...
- Moving Day
Melissa and I recently decided to do something about our wine collection. It was not ideal, probably like the wine collections of most relatively new wine enthusiasts (odd as it sounds, I've only been into wine for about two years; it has been said...
- Screw Caps
Kim Crawford's 2002 "Unoaked Marlborough Chardonnay" is a good wine, if not the standout that Sauvignon Blancs from the same region are. But it is not the wine that I want to write about, it is the bottle. More specifically, the closure. For Kim...