How can you not dig on a bottle of wine that's smaller than a wine glass? Talk about travel sized.

Texas has always been associated with the Wild West, cowboys, and fine wine.  Well, at least those first two things are true, and I think that Texas wineries are making some progress on the third.  This last weekend I uncorked one of my favorite Texas wines, the 2007 Becker Claret.  I have had this wine a couple of times before, [...]

Last night my wife and I had a friend over for dinner and decided to pop the cork on a 2008 Fontanafredda Briccotondo Barbera (say all of that 3 times fast) that I had picked up from World Market a while back.  We were serving lasagna for dinner, so I thought a nice Italian wine would be a good choice.  [...]

I've been saying for the last week that I would do a blog post on the wine tasting that my wife and I hosted last weekend, and being the man of my word that I am, here it is. The grand plan for this tasting was to take people with varying degrees of wine experience, have them each bring a [...]

Scandal has rocked the grape world.  Call the tabloids!  According to a paper published yesterday, some high profile varieties have some questionable parentage.  Decanter.com reported on this story.  Actually, the only real news here is who the mother is. Gouais Blanc, the trailer trash of the grape world, seems to be the mother of some notable varieties, including Chardonnay and [...]

The 2007 Oak Grove Petite Sirah was the last wine that we tasted at our tasting last weekend.  This wine is pretty inexpensive, costing about $10.  The alcohol content is 13.6%. During the tasting the question of whether Petite Sirah and Syrah are related or not.  I have read conflicting accounts on this question.  The one thing that is certain [...]

There is a cool post on Dr. Vino's blog right now with a letter from a soldier serving over in Iraq.  The soldier is a wine lover who really has a unique perspective on the importance of context with wine, or anything else for that matter.  There are certain situations that really vividly demonstrate what is important and what isn't.  [...]

This wine was another one from the tasting that I hosted last weekend.  My friend who brought the bottle of 2007 Coppola Director's Cut Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel had a great story about going to Napa during harvest season and smelling the grapes everywhere.  One of the really fun things about having a tasting where everyone brings a different wine [...]

One of the wines that made an appearance at the tasting that my wife and I hosted this weekend was a 2006 Red Diamond Cabernet Sauvignon.  This Washington Cab has 13.5% alcohol, and is 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cab Franc, 7% Merlot, and 3% Syrah.  I wasn't surprised that this wine had a pretty decent amount of non Cabernet Sauvignon [...]

I always get really excited when I hear about people who come up with great ideas to help others.  Six years ago a group of wine and food bloggers responded to the tsunamis in 2004 by putting together a grass roots fund raising campaign that has continued each of the following years.  Last year the A Menu For Hope effort [...]