Some wines really knock your socks off when you first try them…, then there is this wine.  That's not to say that this was a bad wine, just didn't rock my world or anything. The wine in question is a 2006 Chateau Ste Michelle Cabernet that I bought at the grocery store for about $13.  This wine is produced in [...]

There is a whole lot of wine in the world.  So far my experience has been limited to some of the more common varietals.  I have had my fair share of Cabernet, Pinot Noir, and the like, but it doesn't take very long to start naming off wines that I have never had.  I have decided that I want to [...]

Whew, glad to hear that Robert Parker thinks that there is a place for us bloggers in the coming wine world.   Leah McNally has a great post up on Palate Press about the Wine Future conference in Logroño, Spain.  I have read some accounts of some of the sessions at the conference, and even saw a video of one [...]

I first heard about this on NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me, and had to rush home to Google it.  Sure enough, 7-Eleven is beginning to market their own brand of wine.  For those who just find Boone's Farm to be too elitist, there is now another option.  Don't get me wrong, I am all for finding good inexpensive wine, but [...]

So, I thought that since I already posted about ways to reuse all the old wine corks, I should come up with some great uses for the bottles.  There are a lot of great ideas floating around on the interwebz about what to do with old wine bottles.  I think I'm going to have to make me some wine bottle [...]

Until a recent trip to Washington, I had suffered from my private version of the Sideways Effect.  I didn't really know very much about wine, but all that I knew was that I was not drinking any effing Merlot.  While in Walla Walla, I had a couple of pretty good Merlots and decided that I might have been mistaken to [...]

I mean, seriously, who isn't?  We are all looking for a little value in our wine purchases.  Well, the WineLife365 blog has a list of sub-$10 wines that are well worth the price.  Honestly, I have never tried any of these wines, so I can't personally vouch for them, but I know I will be trying them out soon.

I came across this cool article from May on Revolution Magazine about what to do with your old wine corks.  Since we've been collecting the corks from the wines that we've been drinking recently, this really gave me some cool ideas.  Like this giant cork ball. We still have a ways to go before we could do anything cool with [...]

Erin McGrath has a cool post up on Palate Press with some great wine bar guidelines. Erin has her own blog called Vintwined that focuses on some California wines. As someone who is still pretty new to the wine world, I can definitely remember struggling with some of the confusion that she mentions in trying to describe what I like [...]

I've been trying to play around with food and wine pairings recently.  Most of my early attempts have been pretty obvious ones.  When my brother-in-law told me that he wanted to try some Tai food, I thought that this definitely required the purchase of a bottle of wine.  I decided that I would try a Riesling, which is probably among [...]