This week’s pick resulted from my desire to please a good friend that isn’t a huge fan of dry wines. But, she is a huge fan of sweet wines. However, I was also going to have a table full of other people to please so I couldn’t start off the evening with dessert wine, which [...]
This week’s selection comes from Portugal. While we don’t import tons of wine from Portugal in the US and the wines can be challenging to find, in my humble opinion, they are worth the effort. Portugese wines are generally reasonably priced and I am a fan of the style – somewhere between old world and [...]
Quattro Mani is the brainchild of Domaine Select Wine Estates. It is an offering of second label wines from some of Italy and Slovenia’s best winemakers. The 2010 Quattro Mani Barbera is made by Danilo Droco, one of Piedmont’s greatest winemakers. Not only is the Quatro Mani Barbera a zippy little wine, it’s also a [...]
We received a care package for Halloween from our friends at Hob Nob Wines with some vino and candy (two of our favorites). One of the wines was a 2010 Pinot Noir from the South of France (where after some research, it appears all the Hob Nob wines come from France). From reading this article, [...]
This week’s Wine Wednesday comes to us from one of my favorite wine regions in the world – Italy. And, its made from an ancient and relatively obscure grape – Fiano. While Fiano generally grows in Campagnia, these grapes were grown in Sicily – who knew. For those of you who like big, luscious, fruit [...]
This week’s Wine Wednesday pick is Big House Red and was named after the nearby prison in Soledad California (Monterrey County). Besides offering wines at great prices, this winery has being doing some pretty cool stuff. They winery has a woman winemaker who works with a number of weird wine varietals that you don’t see [...]
It’s July with days of unseasonably warm weather in San Francisco (almost shocking really and am convinced it’s to make up for the horrible Spring). In warm weather, my mind wonders to Rose which is perhaps the most understood wine of modern times (thanks to White Zinfandel). Roses are wonderful wines – an almost perfect [...]
This week’s Wine Wednesday pick is the Etz Kamptal 2009 Gruner Veltliner 1L – Austria (.99 at K&L Wines). A beautiful, zingy wine from Austria that offers refreshment on a hot, summer day. Gruner Veltliner is the unofficial wine of Austria with more Gruner planted than any other grape and more Gruner consumed than any [...]
Enjoy our new feature – Wine Wednesday. Each week, on Wine Wednesday, the Drink of the Week team will feature a wine for or under. 2008 Mark West Pinot Noir, California (.99 at Safeway) As an avowed pinotphile, it’s only natural that I would debut a Pinot Noir for our inaugural Wednesday Wine of the [...]