Category Archives: Chardonnay

Chardonnay Day: Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Posted on May 26, 2016 by intoxreport

Here’s how this should go: I say, “Just got off the phone with Jimmy Kimmel, and we shot the breeze for an hour and he invited me to the guest house he’s renovating in Northern California.” You say, “Whoa!  THE … Continue reading →

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Bret Wine Never Tasted So Fine

Posted on April 8, 2014 by intoxreport

Can you guess why Mel Practice opted out of a career in medicine? Of course you can.  Same reason that the Scheister Brothers don’t have a law firm or why Sam ‘n’ Ella don’t open a sushi bar. So, when … Continue reading →

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Auld Lange’s Wyne

Posted on October 12, 2012 by intoxreport

I have a nearly unhealthy fascination with twins; one I believe may rival that of Josef Mengele.  I’ll explain, but first, while the implication settles—a wine writer beginning any column, at any time, anywhere, with a direct reference to a … Continue reading →

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Doused With The Divining Rod

Posted on September 6, 2012 by intoxreport

Some Sorcerers do boast they have a Rod, Gather’d with Vowes and Sacrifice, And borne about will strangely nod Mankind is sure that Rod divine, For to the Wealthiest ever they incline. – Samuel Sheppard, 1651 Miss Divine also had … Continue reading →

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A Boyd In The Hand Is Worth Two Anheuser-Busch

Posted on July 21, 2012 by intoxreport

If I was a chef (which I’m not, but I bet this conjecture is close to the mark) and one week I over-ordered, say, lobster, prime rib and maybe Macedonian weasel cheese, here’s what I’d do:  I’d purée them all … Continue reading →

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Hestan Vineyards: Picture Perfect Picks From The Sultan of Saucepans

Posted on March 8, 2012 by intoxreport

When a well-heeled businessman decides to open a winery—and plenty do—we can but hope that they possess at least one of the Big Three: A sense of taste, a love of the land or winemaking savvy. If somebody around the … Continue reading →

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Warren Winiarski’s Stag’s Leap of Faith

Posted on November 19, 2011 by intoxreport

Within vino’s voluminous vale, the story of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is the story of Napa.  At least, it’s a microcosm of Napa’s rise from a fiefdom of meh to a kingdom of quality—and that’s a crown that Warren Winiarski … Continue reading →

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Napa Cellars Wines: Generically Delicious!

Posted on November 6, 2011 by intoxreport

I know, bubeleh; I know.  After earning your MBA from the Carnegie Mellon School of Business and your Ph.D from MIT, after a brief teaching stint at Stanford Graduate School (for which you wrote three textbooks on macroeconomics) and your subsequent … Continue reading →

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Ghost Pines Chardonnay: Did Thirty-Five French Generations Get It Wrong?

Posted on October 30, 2011 by intoxreport

I begin with a short and doubtlessly dull philippic on vineyard designated wines.  And all you smarty-pants enophiles who already know this stuff are encouraged to go back to The Marriage Plot or Unbroken or whatever the hell you’re reading … Continue reading →

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Acid in Wine: A Brief and Profoundly Dull Tutorial

Posted on September 8, 2011 by intoxreport

As far as I can tell, the only difference between wine and LSD is that one is legal and the other is not.  Oh, and one makes you feel horny and self confident, fun and brimming with bonhomie and the … Continue reading →

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