Roagna Paje Barbaresco 2003 and Grindhouse Burgers

Tweet Last week I paired a really ugly hamburger with an indisputably pretty wine.                       The burger was just as delicious as it was ugly.  The wine, on the other hand, was as graceful, balanced, and pretty as folks have come to expect from a Luca [...]

High Quality $30 Oregon Pinot & Raymond Usseglio Deal

Tweet I guess I’m thankful Tower Wine & Spirits is located in my new “transitional” Atlanta neighborhood near where Piedmont meets Cheshire Bridge. While I live in Boston, I have been spending a lot of time working in Atlanta and it made sense to skip the hotel scene and just get an apartment.  With lots of open [...]

Week of WineZag: The Round World of Social Media and Wine Blogging

Tweet Wine blogging at WineZag and staying connected in its parallel social networks involves a time and energy commitment yielding grimaces of sympathetic pain and confusion from just about anyone I unveil the details of my dedication to. Except, of course, fellow bloggers and social media mavericks that live in the very round world of [...]

2004 Dumol Syrah: A Country Club Wine?

Tweet American country clubs and their wine lists are simpatico; boring, nondescript bottles of wine punctuated by a few “has been”, overpriced, tired Cabernet and Chardonnay brands served up to a homogeneous pool of status-subscribing members willing to pay for social standing.   Apologies for these harshly extreme generalizations, but my memory banks were recently refreshed at [...]