Wine Tonite!

Nearing the Christmas home stretch and the wife is in town for our first time not hanging with family.  Just in time too to help “decorate” our new pad in Healdsburg.  Otherwise it would just end up like a fraternity house with a dart board and beer cans everywhere, right?  Late Fall and Winter weather [...]

To celebrate the Winter Olympics that just concluded, we decided to entertain an evening of Gruner Vetliner, the most commonly planted grape of Austria.  If you follow the Olympics you probably know that Austria generally performs well in the Winter Games surely due to their proximity to the wintry mountainous range referred to as the [...]

[Guest Post by Jason Fortenberry - suburban home chef, hoopster and wine connoisseur with skillz]     Soup and Cabernet.  Sound like a winning combo?  Maybe.  Maybe Not.  Its January.  It’s cold.  The low in so-called ‘Hotlanta’ is 18 degrees. 18 degrees!!  As our friend Joe (suburbanwino.com) mentioned recently, a lot of us are in [...]

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 [...]