Tequila Gran Agave Blanco Regular price: $20.99 Sale Price: $18.99 Everyday tequila priced, with better-than-everyday tequila flavors. Hints of cinnamon and wildflower honey. Great in a cocktail, easy to sip Tapatio Blanco Tequila Regular Price $44.99 Sale price $39.99 A distinct step up, smooth and clean with dill and citrus and no burn. A great[…]
2015 Meyer-Fonne Edelzwicker Alsace, FR Regular Price $17.99 Sale Price $13.99 Many people are scared of the tall, skinny, Alsatian (and Germanic) wine bottle because they (wrongly) believe that the shape of the bottle indicates whether the wine is sweet or not. Where do people come up with these silly notions? But have no fear…although[…]
Food and Wine! Or wine & food? Some people insist on making drinking wine complicated. A case in point is the never ending debate about pairing wines with food. Should you? Of course. Must you? Of course not. And precisely, what pairs well with what? Well, precisely, no one really knows. That’s because the same[…]
Domaine de la Croix Senaillet Saint-Véran 2016 Regular price: $21.99 Sale Price: $16.99 Unoaked, yet full and lush Chardonnay. Juicy apple and stone fruit flavor with hints of spice and a crisp, tart apple finish. Alain Jaume Réserve Grand Veneur Cotes du Rhone 2017 Regular Price $22.99 Sale price $17.99 Bright and fresh blend[…]
Yes. So says a study released by The Lancet last week. Or to quote the study directly: “By evaluating all associated relative risks for alcohol use, we found that consuming zero standard drinks daily minimises the overall risk to health.” So there you have it. Settled science. No more ‘moderate consumption’. No more ‘a glass[…]
2017 Domaine de Terrebrune Bandol Rosé Provence, FR Regular Price $40.99 Sale Price $31.99 Wine is regularly contradictory. To wit: it’s a one ingredient product that has almost limitless variations. In some cultures, its the beverage of the masses; in others, clearly, the beverage of the classes. The rules for service and consumption were largely[…]
I get it…wine writers desperately need their jobs (until at least that unfinished novel gets, uh, finished) so, of course, they’ll tell you that wine is too complicated and mysterious and magical to be left to the unwashed masses. Good doctors don’t tell you to log onto WebMD for a diagnosis, right? Good lawyers don’t[…]
Gobelsburg Gruner Veltliner, Kamptal 2017 Regular price: $22.99 Sale Price: $17.99 Schloss Gobelsburg, a Cistercian monastic estate, is one of the oldest wineries in the Danube area with a documented history that dates back to 1171. This is a classic Gruner; green plum, white pepper and freshly cut grass aromas lead into subtle stone fruit[…]
2016 Pra ‘Otto’ Soave Classico Veneto, IT Regular Price $21.99 Sale Price $16.99 I’m old enough to remember when Soave was a thing. I remember the Soave Bolla commercials from the 70’s and 80’s. I mean, everybody drank Soave! It was class personified. And then…it all but vanished, left in the dust by Pinot Grigio.[…]
2017 Maison Philippe Viallet Savoie Rosé Vin de Savoie, FR Regular Price $16.99 Sale Price $12.99 Good wine, at the very least, should be refreshing. By that I mean the wine should finish with enough acidity to clean one’s palate, refreshing it for the next sip or bite. Wines that do not refresh are[…]