Month: July 2014

We returned to a familiar theme last week and played the game I call Three Bottle Monte at the tasting table in the wine shop where I work.  The bottles and … Not as advertised</br>Read more

Early in his career Robert Mondavi recognized that he could differentiate his California-made wine from those made in Europe by emphasizing the inherently fruity character of the former. In comparative tastings … Dirt is the new fruit</br>Read more

The twentieth may have been the American century, but it was during the eighteenth that we made the transition from an ethnically uniform but marginally viable colony of the British Empire … <span class="entry-title-primary">What Yankee Doodle drank</br></span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Whetting our whistles in a revolutionary time</span>Read more