Notes of Wine

The last one of these that I had was XXXIV, and it was just not good. The XXXIII was beautiful, a steal for the price. This is better than i...

Bodegas is just really good wine, plain and simple. Their Viva Tu blend is complex and beautiful from the start. Once it opens up, it is eve...

This unusual wine was originally intended to be my Halloween post, but it will have to be Friday the 13th instead. We discovered the tasting...

Well, they can't all be winners. Their subtitle says "great red wine." What a load of shit. The only part of that statement th...

Yowza! I was surprised. We all were! Folie a Deux has nice wines. They are kind, and complex in their own way, but not necessarily upper-ech...

There we were, on the path toward wine drinkin', and it was a big ol' caber-net sa-VIG-nun, the like a-which I ain't never seen....

No sooner had I planned my posting schedule, having convinced myself that "I can do this!," than I was sidelined by a trip, a rat...

Well, well, well... look who it is! It's me! Yes, I have been away from this for a while, sorting out my time, my priorities, and trying...

Hey all, sorry for neglecting you. I have been on vacation in Yellowstone, and will return to my wine drinking duties shortly. I can say t...

I am not a fan of Viognier. There some weird flavor in them that is dry and crappy. But I can no longer say they are all awful. This Curtis ...

I was all excited about SIMI. Mostly because of those big capital letters. It's one of the more expensive cheap wines at Costco, at $15 ...

This was a fun cheap wine. Not spectacular, but not awful. I think it was about $12 or so. I know I post a lot about cheap wines, but it...

Tobin James! The party tasting room! This is a fun winery. Their sun logo is on everything, and not just on some garbage merchandise. Some a...

This wine is from our recent trip to Paso Robles, where we explored a whole new, and as it turns out, magical!, area of California. Paso = G...

This Zin is a friggin' delight. Though not without tannins, it isn't too sharp and pointy. It has a spiciness you would expect from ...