My Favorite wine; November 7 2018

2014 Syrocco Syrah Zenata, Morocco Regular Price $34.99 Sale Price $27.99 Don’t act so surprised. Wine production in Northern Africa (begun there most likely by the Phoenicians) predates most of Europe by about thousand years. And in modern times, inexpensive wine from Tunisia and Libya were illegally blended into wines from the south of France[…]

Tasting notes: Nov. 3, 2018, Whiskey

Glen Grant Single Malt 12 yr old Speyside, Scotland With a bright, golden color and pleasant aromas of orchard fruit, almond and citrus, this exceptional whisky delights the palate with exquisite and delicate notes of apple pie crust and caramel, and finishes with lingering fruit and subtle hints of spice. Old Line Single Malt American[…]

Why not Chiaretto?

So the silly notion that rosé is only for summer continues to mystify me. Is there a pink wine/white shoes correlation? Or is it simply that consumers believe that all rosé is basically the same, and that a tiny amount of rosé is made by only a few wineries that don’t make ‘serious’ wine, anyway.[…]