Lynne Kiesling Wired also has an article this morning about VinoVenue, a wine bar in San Francisco that opened in September 2004. The cool thing about VinoVenue is that you buy a smartcard and go around to the stations, inserting your card and having a taste automatically dispensed. The card records which wines you tasted, …
Lynne Kiesling After our knife skills class we stuck around for the free monthly wine tasting. The instructor, John Fuente, was amazing; he has incredible depth of knowledge about wine, a good sense of humor and down-to-earth attitude toward wine, and a great teaching style. We tasted four wines: a 100% Sangiovese from Tuscany that …
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Lynne Kiesling Christian over at Turn the Screw has a good post describing a dinner part for 20 that he sommelier’ed (if that’s a word!) recently. The wines he chose for each course sound great (as does the food), and are all in the reasonable $13-16 range. I like that he recommended Gruner Veltliner for …
Lynne Kiesling One of Bonny Doon’s missions in the Ca’ Del Solo line is to showcase underappreciated grapes. Malvasia Bianca is one such grape. It is dry, dry, dry, with a flavor of succulent but not lush or sweet fruits. It had a nice orange blossom nose that complemented the bone-dry flavor. The flavor also …
Wine Review: Bonny Doon Ca’ Del Solo Malvasia Bianca 2003 Read More »
Lynne Kiesling We rediscovered Bonny Doon this September, when we had a long weekend in the area. They are refreshing for lots of reasons: they don’t take themselves too seriously, they make good wine that is good value for money, and they are embracing the screw top. Three for three! The subtitle name of this …
Wine Review: Bonny Doon Ca’ Del Solo Sangiovese 2002 Read More »
Lynne Kiesling We rediscovered Bonny Doon this September, when we had a long weekend in the area. They are refreshing for lots of reasons: they don’t take themselves too seriously, they make good wine that is good value for money, and they are embracing the screw top. Three for three! The subtitle name of this …
Wine Review: Bonny Doon Ca’ Del Solo Sangiovese 2002 Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Still wondering what to drink with your turkey on Thursday? Josh at The Food Section has a wineblog roundup of wine recommendations for Thanksgiving. Alder Yarrow at Vinography makes a recommendation near and dear to my heart: Domaine Les Pallieres Gigondas, imported into the US by Kermit Lynch: Domaine Les Pallieres lies in …
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