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02 May

I’ve waxed poetic about my recent trip to Rheingau in both written and podcast form, but in a general way. I didn’t talk specifics about where and what to drink, which I know you probably want to know, especially since most of these producers have...

29 Mar

It’s not easy for me to just take off to Europe and explore wine regions these days! Between kids, budget, and M.C. Ice’s day job, we can’t jet set the way we’d like. But this year, with my new amazing project, The Weekly Tasting, it was...

13 Oct

Let’s say you had a friend whom you loved in a group setting but whom, alone, you found to be over the top, obnoxious, rude, and sort of base or low class. Try as you may, you just couldn’t hang out with the friend on...

16 Sep

Ask a European wine lover about the classification systems of Europe – you know the ones that may drive you crazy because they require that the labels don’t state the grape on the bottle but rather the place? -- and you’re likely to get an...

24 Aug

I drink a ton of Riesling. I love the grape and find it fascinating in all its incarnations. Call me a traditionalist, but I love to drink wine from the home of this noble grape: Germany.   A few years ago my love of German Riesling led...

20 Jul

*This is an update and repost of a previous post, which you can find here. Part of the reason I love wine is that every grape has a story. Whether it’s that the grape has been native to an area (like Tempranillo in Spain), or found...

17 Aug

Returning from my first ever Wine Blogger Conference in the Finger Lakes region of New York State on the East Coast of the US,  I have to share my version of the “what I learned on my summer vacation” essay. While we’ll definitely do a podcast...

01 Feb

Every so often I get a question about the difference between cheap wine and better wine: "What's the real difference? Why spend $25 when I can spend $2.50? Seriously, it's just fermented grapes. Isn't it all the same?" No. And despite the articles and taste...

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