It is the season of wine. People who don’t drink wine, drink wine. People who do drink wine step up the quality of wine they drink. Wine sellers love December.
Often sellers discount so you can buy wondrous wine at awesome prices.
Sellers do this to reduce inventory, but—whatever their reason—you can purchase superb wines without nuking your retirement portfolio or your child’s college fund. Go. Now. Buy. Continue reading
Category: Facts About Wine
Halloween 10-28-2015
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ideal dramatis personae for annual Halloween column, and an opening into discussion of what happens when we enjoy more alcohol than prescribed by “drink responsibly.”
Researchers at Department of Psychological Sciences at University of Missouri-Columbia published a paper characterizing “four types of drunks.” Where do you fall, presuming you have ever been drunk? Continue reading
Bordeaux-Burgundy 10-21-2015
Bordeaux and Burgundy: both French, both delicious, both wonderful, both so different. Continue reading
Wine costs 10-14-2015
Wine cost is a puzzlement. What is difference between $5 bottle, $50 bottle, $500 bottle? Continue reading
Wine-food science 10-7-2015
Wine is enjoyable for many reasons. In addition to regaling your palate, when sipped with friends wine lubricates conversation, promotes bonhomie and arouses warm feelings about the world in general. Wine drinkers appreciate all those good things. Continue reading
Big data 9-30-2015
Big data is big nowadays. Big, really big—just look at the data. Continue reading
Parker 9-23-2015
Robert Parker. Like New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys, you either revile with corrosive intensity or adore with hagiographic veneration. Continue reading
Wine stains 9-16-2015
Drink enough red wine and you are going to spill red wine. On clothes, tablecloths, rugs, maybe all of the above in one big, dramatic cataclysm. Continue reading
Sauv blanc 9-9-2015
Sauvignon blanc ranks as world class wine after once being associated with poorboy plonk or snooty French names no one understood. Long, strange journey.
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Cork conundrum
An effete wine server ostentatiously extracts the cork and pretentiously presents it to you. Now what? Continue reading