Being the one holiday that is truly American, it’s certainly understandable and maybe even the “correct” thing to drink American wine with your bird. Then again, we eat the same food every year, and drink the same drinks every year, so why not mix it up a bit? From a red wine standpoint, the most […]

First, there was sun tea. Now, the Commonwealth introduces UV Vin, the Liquor Control Board’s latest innovation aimed at delivering a superior experience to wine lovers from Allegheny to Ardmore. I’ve ragged on this store before, and few could mount a compelling position against privatization once they’ve shopped there, but in the spirit of disclosure […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]