Sparkling wines/Champagne are wonderful all the time, but New Year’s and weddings are when most people twist wire cages and pop mushroom corks. Continue reading
Month: December 2012
Christmas pours
Your family Christmas meal is a great time for wine, but it is not a great time for great wine. Continue reading
Feast food pairings
You celebrate wine. Family members grudgingly acquiesce you know more about it than they do. They anoint you to select and, if they are deviously clever, to buy wine for a festive family meal. This is the season for such repasts and such familial strategies. Continue reading
Unspeakable things
Gather close, my friends. We speak in whispers of unspeakable things.
The refined, proper thing to do is to open a correctly cellared bottle of wine, decant it for a decorously desirable length of time, languorously savor it while sharing scintillating conversation with vividly erudite people. Your parlor tonight, right? Continue reading