Category: Wine Wednesday

Wine Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Potential.  A humble grape, with its meaty flesh sealed tight by a waxy skin, waits.  This cluster, in mid-winter, missed the harvest. Missed the chance to be pressed and bottled into fine wine.  Missed the chance to be sniffed and swirled and boasted over. Instead, the cluster remained clinging to the vine.  Instead, it waited…

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Wine Wednesday: October 18, 2017

We were excited about this wine: a Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet 1984. It had sat quietly waiting in the darkness of the cellar where flecks of mold found their way along the label.  But the contents remained clear. As we poured the wine into our glasses, we marveled at the intenseness of its color made ever more brilliant by the final rays of the setting sun.

Wine Wednesday: Fogust 23, 2017

#WineWednesday @KarltheFog “Today’s forecast: mostly foggy with a high chance of forgetting what warmth feels like.” 
#Fogust continues.  I was 15 miles inland before the clouds broke. Suddenly the house Chardonnay in a water glass was a beautiful thing.  

Wine Wednesday: May 24, 2017

“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”
–Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist

[and wine tasting]
–Living Life Forté

Wine Wednesday: Ides of March

Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me; And we, like friends, will straightway go together. … The ides of March are come.