I’ll never forget the day that my family and I visited a winery in Montalcino. After tasting a few wines, one of us commented that they were a bit harsh. The person serving us said “well, that’s because it is too young to drink. Ideally you would wait 10 years to drink it.” Though I […]
Wine Shopping in PA may not be so bad after all…
Their claim was plain: This year’s Festival showcases the finest in wine, spirits and gourmet foods… OK, then. Count me in. Following are observations from the Philadelphia Taste Festival of Food Wine and Spirits at the Valley Forge Convention Center. I parked at the Radisson and made my way inside. It was the third and final […]
Everyone knows one of those people. You know, the ones who know everything about everything. Who act like rock stars. Who act like when they decide to open their mouths, they are dropping some pearl of wisdom on the group that the rest of us are lucky enough to have heard. I’ve known many people […]
Stores that will ship to PA, or places where you can shop online from Pennsylvania.
One of my goals with this blog is to explore some of the rarer Italian wines and wine regions, especially from a US perspective. For me, Lagrein was a great start to this exploration. Though it is certainly not impossible to find this varietal in the US, it is not a commonly known wine, nor […]
When I first started cellaring wine with any seriousness, I had very little understanding about what drinking windows were and what aging did to wine. If Wine Spectator, or Robert Parker, or CellarTracker users said that a wine should be drunk between 2010 and 2020, I assumed that the wine would taste best in 2020 […]
Some changes in the works at Mixx in Villanova.
Cleaning out my freezer. That’s what inspired me to drink this bottle of Aglianico. My freezer was overflowing. Every time I opened the door, food fell out, often on my feet. There were probably 10 plastic containers of mystery fluid, unlabled, of unspecified origin. I got to work cleaning it out. First, I found a […]
Montepulciano D’Abruzzo makes me think of Rome. And, unlike most things that make me thing of Rome, that’s not a good thing. Despite the Roman passion for food, sub-par bottles of wine made from this grape were ubiquitous. We were staying at an apartment in the old section just down the road from Campo de Fiori, with […]