Priorat, a spanish red wine which seems to be little known but growing in popularity is most definitely my favorite wine varietal. I’ve built a pretty sizeable collection since I first tried it about 2 years ago. That first glass just blew me away and now I pretty much can’t resist buying a priorat if [...]
Sunday afternoon, watching football. Not my team the Jets since they play monday night against Miami (GO JETS!), sipping wine. I bought 6 bottles based on a 94-97 point rating from jay Miller at The Wine Advocate. This is the first bottle I’ve opened. The wine itself is 80% shiraz and 20% cabernet sauvignon and [...]
Here is another wine I purchased based on an email from The Wine Library. The review sounded great, rating was 91 from Robert Parker and the price seemed right so I purchased a case. I opened a couple of bottles at my election night party. The wine had a great bouquet and full flavored fruity [...]
I recently purchased 6 bottles of this wine from a daily email I get from The Wine Library. It scored 93 points from Wine Enthusiast. I am always on the look out highly rated good value wines. A few days after buying the wine I was making a beef stew with port and wine and [...]
Last night we got together for our wine club again, though this time we decided on Oktoberfest as our theme and went with beers. Since we’re not sticklers for “rules” we stretched the concept and went with beers, not necessarily German and the German food was not exactly German either. Our core group includes the [...]
