I was headed home Friday after another week of too many hours, and not enough rest. I decided to pick up a pizza on the way home because we’d opened a 2006 Rosenblum Cellars Richard Sauret Zinfandel (88pts) the night before. I decided to get a pizza topped with grilled chicken, sausage, linguica, roma tomatoes, red…
Month: October 2010
Mine Eyes Have Been Opened Wide…
I love Zin. It’s one of my favorite varietals. In fact, my epiphany wine was a Lolonis Zinfandel I had about 10 years ago. Before that, I liked wine and would consume it occasionally. But after that, I came to love wine. I can still remember the juicy berry flavor of that wine! But when…
Blind tasting and strip poker, Oh my!
After our most recent wine tasting club meeting I began to wonder why it is that the least expensive wine frequently wins. At our wine tasting club, we do blind-tasting. The bottles are covered up to conceal the identity of the producer. We typically pour an ounce or two, and score the wine on a…
Start the car….I gotta steal!
Just a few short years ago, before the Great Recession, there were many wine lovers, and just plain showoffs who seemed to revel in telling anyone who would listen, or pretend to listen, how much they paid for a bottle of wine. Well, the tables have turned. Now, it seems it’s cool to tell folks…