Wine Friends Are Great!
Farley, formerly of Behind the Vines and soon to be of….well, yet to be announced, but we all know that whatever she chooses to do next will be a great success, gave me and Matt this bottle of 2005...
View ArticleCan You Pronounce This?
The wine for the evening happened to have a very strange name, the 2006 Navarro Edelzwicker. We picked this bottle up at the winery on our March Sonoma trip, it cost $12, had a real cork closure and...
View ArticleWBW #50 Which Wine Which Wilderness
That’s right folks, WBW crept up on us again this month. Our host for this golden birthday of WBW is a man who recently celebrated his own golden birthday, Russ, the Winehiker! In keeping with his...
View ArticleThe Last Hugel
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Bin Ends Wine so I could participate in Twitter Taste Live Ah, the last of the Hugels. I’ve written about the other 3 bottles we tasted for Twitter...
View ArticleGrand New Zealand Tasting
So on the first day of the Wine Blogger Conference, not only did we have the Kick Ranch Tasting, the “speed dating” tasting, and the Dry Creek Growers tasting, we also were treated to a grand tasting...
View ArticleGetting Springy With It
The weather seems to have turned a corner here! We’ve had 70 degrees or better the last couple of days and I’m breaking out the white wines I’ve been craving. I must stock the cellar though, as white...
View ArticleGewurz Time!
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Mill Creek Winery. Tonight I felt like a spicy white wine. Our weather is hot hot hot! And white wine is just the ticket for nights like tonight. I...
View ArticleWhat Do You Spy?
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Spy Valley Winery. Well, if you were sitting in my living room, it would be a bottle of the 2007 Spy Valley Gewurztraminer! This is the 4th in a...
View ArticleMore Hugel
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. I’ve had this wine several times in the past. You can read my review of the 2005 vintage here. I’ve also purchased it many times and not...
View ArticleUnder My Thumb
I have a problem. I’d call it an addiction actually. I joined another wine club while in CA. In my defense, we had just broken up with 3 others, so it felt like it was time to mix things up a bit. I...
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