Old House Vineyards is our closest winery and, as such, is a place where we often meet up with friends. Recently we joined some friends there for a wine tasting and a picnic. Given the summer we’ve been having in VA, you’ve got to take advantage of bearable temperatures whenever they occur to spend a [...]
Tag archive: cabernet franc
Given that we buy at least 90% of our wine after first trying it, you’d think all our bottles would be ones we really like. Regular readers realize this is not the case. Sometimes whatever it was that attracted us to the bottle the day we bought it is no longer clear by the time [...]
Sometimes you want a wine that makes you think: a wine that challenges you, and is full of complexity… a real grownup wine. And sometimes you have a week that makes you feel like you’ve been dragged face first into a ball of barbed wire and dumped naked in a vat of lemon juice. Throw [...]
Lately I’ve been having some trouble with the bottles of cabernet franc we’ve opened. One was odd (e.g., jalapenos), and another was bad (e.g., oak table). That made it that much nicer when I got some nice fruit and spice from the bottle of ’07 Gadino Cellars cab franc we drank recently. This was our [...]
If you’ve read any of my reactions to fairly oaky chardonnays, you’re probably familiar with the fact that I often state my negative reaction to the unbalanced oak as being like licking a table. Oak is not always balanced in red wines either, but the lack of balance has not typically bothered me as much [...]
I’ve long had a complex relationship with cabernet franc. When Grape Envy Guy and I first moved to VA and started trying local wines, we found that most wineries offered one. Cab franc was a new wine for us, however, as I’d never had it as a primary grape before. This peppery, tannic wine was [...]
We’ve spent way too much time lately stuck in our house because of the Snoverkill we’ve been experiencing in Virginia. Because of this, we haven’t been able to visit VA wineries. This has not kept us from drinking local, however. We’ve just turned our attention to our wine racks and have actually taken some notes [...]
