We’re trying to be better about actually leaving some bottles of wine alone long enough to age.  This is made easier by the fact that we’re buying more wine so we actually have options when we go to pick a bottle.  At the same time, however, we try to make sure we drink bottles before [...]

I like that wine can be made in so many different ways.  That means I can always find a wine to fit my meal or my mood.  Some styles, however, just seem like a bad idea all around.  I often struggle with oak in my white wines.  I have come to recognize that a well [...]

I saw a great poster online today. It says, “public is the new private.” Given the 24 hour news cycle, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all manner of other technological innovations, I couldn’t agree more. The amount of knowledge we have about what’s happening in the lives of other people- even those we barely know- is [...]

Given my title, I bet you’re expecting to hear about a red that we’ve been aging for a number of years and recently opened.  You’d be wrong.  I’m talking about a white wine that we opened and left in the fridge for 4 days before finishing.  This was not a planned experiment – it’s just [...]

When we were at Aspen Dale, we were intrigued by the pairing of their sauvignon blanc with white chocolate.  It worked surprising well (in a mind-blowing, confusing kind of way), so we picked up a bottle so that we could try this with our friends and a nice white chocolate dessert.  This past weekend gave [...]

Before the copious, detailed wine tasting experiences this blog has led us to undertake, Grape Envy Guy wouldn’t touch a crisp dry white.  I was a fan, so anytime we found one he said he liked, I’d buy it so I’d have a crisp white wine we could share when the mood struck me.  This [...]

Speaking of wineries we knew nothing about, we decided to stop in at Aspen Dale Winery at the Barn. It’s aptly named, as the tasting room is in a centuries-old historic barn. Coincidence? I think not. Anyhow, this is a winery that likes to provide a food pairing with each of the five wines they [...]

I was in Charlottesville for a meeting recently.  Any time I’m in c-ville, I try to eat at Revolutionary Soup.  This time, I took home some Spicy Senegalese Peanut Tofu Soup to be part of a make shift dinner along assorted Mexican food items from the prepared food counter at Whole Foods.  I immediately started [...]

Last spring, before we started this blog, was the first time we visited Chateau O’Brien.  We did not enjoy our initial tasting experience; the whites were served so cold we could barely taste them and there was a rowdy bridal party that made it hard to learn anything about the wines or enjoy our visit.  [...]

The first time we visited Fox Meadow Vineyards was last spring before we started blogging.  I didn’t remember anything specific about their wines, although I did remember that no bottles came home with us.  The thing I best remembered about this initial visit was the picnic we had there with some spicy Thai wraps.  A [...]