Wine Tonite!

A friend of mine at the office, with whom I share beers with at after-work happy hours quite often, was sharing an experience he had the other night with his pal when they noticed a guy walking into the restaurant with a mini-case that turned out to be a wine carrier.  They could not believe their [...]

Just returning from a 4-day wine country vacation where we have been talking a lot about wine with our friends, the trip home wasn’t any different.  The other night, we shared with them one of my wife’s organizational practices of writing the price and retailer on the bottles of wine we purchase locally.  In a [...]

Do commercials like this really get more people to drink wine?  The message I get from this Yellowtail commercial, with urban Italian background (though YT is made in Australia it is owned by the Casella family, who are originally from Italy), is this: “Don’t worry about spilling that wine, honey, because it was so cheap and [...]

It’s that time again for a Winter wine tasting to warm the soul featuring none other than good ‘ol California Cabernet Sauvignon.  We brought together some close friends for a blind tasting of some inexpensive (< $15) vs. expensive (> $30) Cabs to see a) if we could tell the difference and b) if expensive [...]

In an effort to find some inexpensive (< $15) Cabernet Sauvignon for an upcoming party, we performed a taste-test between two such wines tonight, both from Napa Valley.  What makes this party interesting, is that the inexpensive wine will be blind tasted against more expensive wines, so we’re looking for something that can stand up [...]