-
Awards and Nominations
-
Recent Posts
search
Archives
- July 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
Available Now
Meta
-
Join 2,758 other subscribers
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Signorello Trims The Edge Of The Fuse
When does ‘cutting edge’ become ‘trimming edge’? When Ray Signorello, Jr. gets into the game. I’m not sure if there is a direct translation of ‘signorello’ from Italian into English, but the Latin etymology is all about refinement, gentlemanliness and … Continue reading
Posted in Cab/Merlot, Napa
Tagged Fuse, Jr., Ray Signorello, Seta, Signorello Estates, Trim Edge
Leave a comment
‘The Drumbeat Of Transparency’ And Other Examples Of Mismatched Synesthesia Among Wine Writers
I am sitting here in the middle of the night reading the label on a jar of Gourmet Collection Cajun Style Spice Blend wearing an expression between bemused bewilderment and baffled miff, since apparently, in its inimitable wisdom, the FDA … Continue reading
What Wines Not To Serve For Columbus Day
Columbus Day is, of course, the annual goombah gala which has nothing really to do with Christopher Columbus and everything really to do with marching down Fifth Avenue surrounded by bands, floats and contingents while bragging about how goddamned happy … Continue reading
Duckhorn And Cover: Or, How To Survive The Red Wine Menace of 2012
October 7, 2012: ABC News has reported that new evidence links alcohol consumption with bowel cancer. The findings from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) suggest that people who drink one or two glasses of wine or … Continue reading
Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Top Ten Lists Followed By A Top Ten List of Ten Tenable Wines Under Ten Bucks
You may not know this, but there are, on earth, quite a few life-lacking lackeys who actually enjoy, and thus create, top ten lists. People like Alec Baldwin, who swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush was elected, … Continue reading
Wines To Serve With The ‘Paleo Diet’
The history of dietary scamology is older than mankind; it began when the first primeval predatory invertebrate camouflaged itself to trick some doofus diatom into becoming dinner. The history—the science, really—of human dietary scamology (a.k.a. ‘fad diets’) is a bit … Continue reading
Vintage Cellars For Your Cellarable Vintages
The concept of a wine cellar sort of baffles me. Not because I don’t think it would be awesome to convert a corner of my cold, dank, subterranean arachnology museum into a temperate haven for comatose cabernet and reposing Rioja. … Continue reading
intoxreport.com 