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Monthly Archives: February 2015
I Am The Joan Rivers Of The Wine-Blog Oscars
Truly, I am. Like Bon Jovi and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Nabokov without an aurelian badge from Nobel; Chita Rivera, the firebrand Latina unable to sing her way into a Tony. That’s me: Never the bridesmaid let … Continue reading
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Nuits-St-Georges Aux St. Jacques: Odoul’s With An ABV
A spitball’s throw away from the hallowed estates of Vosne-Romanée lies the somewhat less hallowed estates of Nuits-St-George, but the difference in prestige (and price) may be comparable to Prince Fielder’s salary in 2015 and Jackie Robinson’s in 1957. It’s … Continue reading
Noblesse Oblige: The Stillman Story (Again)
The other day I claimed I didn’t ‘do’ obligatory, but in that, I was a bit economical with the truth; I shat yon bull, I yanked yon chain, I committed a terminological inexactitude. In short, I lied. Because every year … Continue reading
Côte-Rôtie: Prost! To The Roast With The Most
Among their myriad character flaws, the French are ludicrously and endlessly poetic. Thus, the Northern Rhône appellation Côte-Rôtie, which receives an inordinate amount of sunshine, has a name translated as ‘The Roasted Slope’. And since that’s not quite poetic enough … Continue reading
Forget ‘Wine With Chocolate’; What Wine Goes With Those Cute Li’l Candy Hearts That Say ‘Blow Me’?
One of the reasons I am a low-paid blogger instead of a highly-paid critic for The Daily Planet—a great metropolitan newspaper—is that I don’t do obligatory. Obligatory wine columns preceding holidays are, in the minds of many editors, pablum for … Continue reading
The Fourth Monkey: Pineau Evil
If my description of the following Pineau des Charentes is so passionate that you feel a Svengali-like drive to go buy some, better hurry. The hand-numbered bottle I tried was listed 885/900. Bottom of the barrel takes on a whole … Continue reading
O Verdicchio, Verdicchio! Wherefore Art Thou?
The other day I wrote about a reputation-ravaged red (Lambrusco) and today I shift gears to confront an equally marginalized Italian white: Verdicchio. The innocuous little grape from innocuous little Marche was content to coast along on its laurels—as threadbare … Continue reading
Lambrusco Revisited: Don’t Say The ‘R’ Word
I promised my favorite hootch hawker that I wouldn’t use the ‘R’ word in discussing his Lambrusco. He insists—rightly—that the quintessential ‘70s Italian wine brand should remain, like their stupid slogan, on ice. Under the auspices of Banfi Vintners, said … Continue reading
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