Wine Tonite!

Taking this title from a new found friend on Twitter and host of the The Other 46 wine blog, I bring to you some notes from 4 wineries I visited today in the Yadkin Valley, North Carolina.  I hope he doesn’t mind and I have given him props including a link to his site above [...]

Spending Christmas in Orlando made us feel a little guilty as we watched the rest of the country shovel themselves out of record depths of snow… but only a little.  We enjoyed 80 degrees and sunshine and walked around Winter Park in shorts and a tee-shirt.  I could only laugh at the Seminole fans who [...]

Jacob’s Creek received the Winery of the Year award from Green’s (http://www.greensbeverages.com/news-ga.shtml#jacobs), one of our local wine retailers.  The other night my wife wanted to know the difference between the 2006 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Reserve ($9.99) vs. the plain ‘ol 2007 Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay ($4.99).  So, we had a taste test with just the two of [...]

I am generally a red wine drinker… you know, the big Cabs from California, a Pinot Noir from Oregon, or even a Shiraz.  However, in the past 2 years, my wife has really converted me over to experiencing more with white wines, especially during the hot summer months down here in the south.  We recently [...]