Small bottle phenomenon ~ What a sweet idea, or is it?
Comments this week will be placed in a drawing for a $75.00 gift certificate from True Fabrications. (Just your name will qualify you.) Drawing on Saturday. A few months ago, I received a package that contained six 50-ml size bottles of wine. Each one contained just two ounces. This was totally new packaging for me; [...]
Here Come The 2008s ~ Have Your Alka-Seltzer Handy for the Yuck and Suck Factor
The belch heard round the world just happened in my office. A sample wine arrived, and fortunately I had already tasted a wine from the 2008 vintage with smoke taint, so knew what was wrong. Unfortunately, whatever this wine brand is using to try to slip this California wine by us all, made my co-taster [...]
Birdie Ballet ~ An Autumnal Phenomena
I know it’s not autumn, but I can’t even begin to tell you how long I’ve waited to write about Birdie Ballet, this wine grape harvest phenomena. My really great friend Ronda Boyd came up with this name. I’d like to take credit; but… alas… I can’t. Credit goes to RB. We experienced this during [...]
Fallow the Yellow Brink Road at Trefethen on April Fool’s Day
What a great marketing effort by Trefethen. First of all, who doesn’t love to get packages in the mail? Secondly, who doesn’t love a practical joke? Thirdly… We’re all headed toward April Fool’s day, and Trefethen has just nailed it! In an effort to get my attention, they sent their new release to me… A [...]
Alentejo, a Wine Region of Exceptional Wines, That’s Growing by Leaps and Bounds
The historic town of Evora is a place that is wrapped in Roman history. This is an image of an aqueduct that was constructed by Romans, and today it is as sturdy as it was during the time of construction, when the Roman transported water from the north to this amazing town. This is the view from my [...]
