EDS719 was pretty good but now its time for the August edition. And oh August, how I have a love-hate relationship with you! It can be brutally hot as evidenced by the continuous slate of 100+ degree days we had
“Making the past a strength. An influence. Demanding precision, subtlety. Imagining the finest of wines, generous, ambitious. The continuation of our story. A story of a name, a winery rooted at the heart of Hermitage.” – Ferraton Père & Fils
I fell in love with the wines of the Rhone Valley, the Southern Rhone’s Chateauneuf-du-Pape specifically, very early on in
While sucking big time in so many ways – Prince, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Ali, Janet Reno amongst so many others leaving us; Brexit; Zika; lying Ryan Lochte; Syria; Nice; Orlando; the U.S. election (we could be here all day) – it was a great year for the Corkscrew Concierge’s
So here we are once again celebrating International Grenache Day, which is the third Friday in September. Grenache is one of those
After tasting the lovely wines of the Willamette Valley
I began writing this blog as a fun way to recount some of the places I’d traveled to for wine. My initial thought was that
High in the storied hills of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (“Friuli”), the Felluga family has been producing high-quality wines from some of the best vineyard sites in
I haven’t always loved Prosecco. I attribute it to the flood of uninspiring versions that flooded the market. Without a doubt, Prosecco is a hot
