I’m sure we all have one: a Worst Valentine’s Day Ever. Mine involved teddy bears holding Mylar balloons, and I’m sure it’s partly to blame for the little shiver I get every time I’m sent a heart-sprinkled press release advertising a Valentine’s special. So I was relieved to see that instead of doing something schmaltzy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’
Drink to Healthy Hearts
Posted in Pairings, Tasting Adventures, Wine and Life, Wine for Health, tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Ehlers Estate, Napa Valley on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Smell Like a Dog (Unless that Works for You…)
Posted in Tasting Adventures, Wine Picks, tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, Food and Wine magazine, Gramercy Cellars, napa, supertaster, Syrah, Tempranillo, Walla Walla, Washington state on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I brought a bottle of 2008 Gramercy Cellars Columbia Valley Tempranillo to a book club meeting. I’d been curious to try the wines of this Washington state–based outfit dubbed Best New Winery, 2010, by Food and Wine magazine, and while we all liked the Tempranillo quite a bit, our comments [...]
Hailing Cabs
Posted in Tasting Adventures, Wine Picks, tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Clos Du Val, Mount Veeder, Napa Valley, Oberon, Robert Mondavi on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, Peter and I recruited two friends to help us with the difficult work of tasting three premium Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons. Due to a way-too-strong fondness for alliteration in my old budget-wine column, these friends appeared in that space as ‘the Tuscan Tipplers’ — a honeymoon reference. Here we’ll just [...]
Beach Blend
Posted in Wine Picks, tagged Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Ironstone Winery, Lodi, Malbec, Meritage, Petite Verdot, red wine, Sierra Foothills on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During my years of writing a newspaper column about bargain wines, Ironstone Winery got a lot of ink—in large part because they often source grapes from Lodi and sell several wines for $10 or less a bottle. Now that I have a reason to write about higher-end wines, I thought—a little wistfully—that my days of [...]
Vacation Hero
Posted in Tasting Adventures, tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Chile, Hotel Portillo, Maipo Valley, Portillo, Santa Rita, Sauvignon Blanc on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My friend Diana is my vacation hero—she’s always hatching a plan to go someplace fabulous and/or exotic. Diana’s next big adventure brings her to the Hotel Portillo in Portillo, Chile, where she’ll spend a week this summer skiing and sipping local wines. Located in the Chilean Andes about three hours from Santiago, Portillo is adjacent [...]
Happy Harvest
Posted in Wine Facts, Wine Picks, tagged Bon Anno, Cabernet Sauvignon, harvest, Napa Valley, Zinfandel on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned in my last (and so far only) post that my husband is a winemaker, so during the harvest months of September and October, his long work days begin before dawn, and his weekends are nonexistent. You can therefore imagine the twinge of panic we felt upon learning that our first child’s due date [...]
