By day, I am wine student and spend most of my time studying. By night, I work at a high end restaurant where I pour amazing wines. While I love wine from all over the world, my passion is for food friendly wines that serve to enhance the dining experience and what people are eating! [...]
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, [...]
On a recent trip to Trader Joe’s, we came across a bottle of wine that we could not resist! As I have mentioned beore, I used to pick my wine based on the wine bottle. I will admit that I still indulge in this selection process when the wine is at a low enough price [...]
I will admit that French wine scares me. Even after all the wine classes I have taken, France remains the great unknown and it seems unknowable. But, I also realize that if I am going to be remotely close to becoming a wine goddess, I will need to know France. I will have to embrace [...]
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 [...]
Beverages and More runs a five cent wine sale where it sells the consumer a second bottle of wine for five cents when buying the first bottle at full price. For a full disclaimer, I have never shopped this sale but I have friends who swear by it and they buy cases and cases of [...]
This week represents our foray into the wine business. One of the questions that we receive most from people is how to buy good wine that doesn’t break the bank. To satisfy user demand, we have been working on a weekly series on “Wine on a Budget”. Here is our initial post. Grocery Stores The [...]