Wine Tonite!

The Summer is on its way out and now that vacations are done and kids are back in school, we should get back into the swing of things as far as club tastings go.  This was an unplanned event, but we had a very nice turnout and brought in some of our other friends not [...]

Malbec was the variety of choice at our most recent Pelly Wine Club tasting hosted by the Wolfe’s, honorary club members even though they actually reside on another street.  There’s a house for sale next door, we may need to make them move in to keep them in the club ; ) Robert slaved all [...]

Man I love LL Cool J – no, not in that way.  That guy has some longevity as he continues to rock the hip-hop world from the 80′s, 90′s and beyond.  Our February neighborhood wine club tasting was last night where we focused on wines from California.  It’s been six years since we visited the [...]

Whether you are looking to host your first tasting or you are already a pro, I definitely encourage you to score, rate and make notes about the wines you taste if you are not doing so already.  Rating your wines, even if it’s only on a scale of 1-5 instead of the RP or WS [...]

This month’s wine club theme was Pinot Noir only.  Very timely for us, since we have just come back from our trip to Willamette Valley, which makes some wonderful Pinot’s — unfortunately the wine we brought didn’t score well.     Robert tells us that the reason they chose Pinot Noir was because they didn’t know much [...]