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Getting to know Sicily: Etna Rosso Edition
Oh hey! I recently posted about some white wine gems here so how’s about some reds? Yes, there are other red grapes in Sicily. But right now, the Etna DOC is gunning to become a DOCG (it’s like a DOC...
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Chilly Winter Wines Part 1: Cabernet!
Why no, I am not doing dry January as I’m more a moderation in everything kinda wine gal. Also, it’s cold out. Okay I’m in LA it’s sometimes at least chilly at night when it’s windy. But that doesn’t...
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Chilly Winter Wines Part Two: Cozy Port Vibes
The New Year may, for some be time for hedonism, tbut for many it is the time to dip into desire without needing to justify. Because cold. And/or awards season stress (in LA). Whether it’s cold or you...
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Chilly Winter Wines Part 3: Chardonnay v the Chill
She will warm, soothe, and energize you. On really cold days, do you alternate between trying to literally hibernate and shivering so hard your muscles are hard as rocks? Your body either shutting...
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Chilly Winter Wines Part 4: Carmenère, I Barely know Her!
A bunch of Carmenère from Chile! Also I was a little nervous to know her too well–Carmenère is famed for its pyrazine notes which I can be hit or miss on, admittedly. But where did she come from? And...
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Montepulciano, grape or ground?
Italy just loves its confusing wine names. So! Today, let’s clear up two wines that could throw you: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Are we excited now or what?! I am, but...
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Drink Rodney Strong, Get E-bike Strong?
Sonoma County’s Rodney Strong Vineyards has impressed me for a hot minute or two. I recently received a few of their Cabs, in concert with the news that the winery is continuing its annual sweepstakes...
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Argentina Go!
Domaine Bousquet is a pioneer in Argentina, making a variety of bottling that are always forward-thinking in this increasingly complicated world. The wines of Bousquet are every woman: organic,...
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Tre Bicchieri: THERE and HERE!
I kept prolonging the writing of this. I got the recap of the first half of the trip to Puglia written up here, made expedient by both deadlines and my adoration for Southern Italy and the crew I was...
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Chard for the Dogs!
I love Chardonnay, I love animals, I love that Frank Family Vineyards is always doing cool charitable shiznit. At hat trick of wine coolness is a good way to start a blog, no? I don’t know what else...
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Three Sticks!!!
The name Three Sticks came out of the founder Billy Price being a third–in Roman numerals III, which resembles, yes, three sticks, which led to Billy Three Sticks being his nickname and Three Sticks...
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As Above, So Below: Pinot and Chard
Above, below—not like heaven. And also, maybe below isn’t necessarily like above. All this is talking of the latitude-ist, dare I say hemispere-ist language dividing this earth. Much like a...
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A Bousquet of Rosés
Never can I ever say no to rosé. Literally I try to imagine hypotheticals…maybe if I was about to take a test or go on stage or was pregnant? Although in all of those circumstances I am sure a spit...
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Get in line!
I’ve had favorable opinions of Line 39 before (the name comes from the 39th parallel latitude!) and, of course, always want to hype a woman winemaker, in this case Alyssa Reynolds, who works with the...
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Down With Douro
This is what a wine writer’s life looks like sometimes: coffee, spit cup, wine, zooms (and also, yes, a box of athletic tape for my feet–going back on pointe in ballet has been killer!). I first got...
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Explosive!!!
The biggest turn-on on earth for me is making someone laugh. Oddly enough, I don’t care if they make me laugh. It’s all about can I get a guffaw. Other turn-ons? Height and volcanoes. I jest not (I’ll...
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Pretty in (Rhone) Pink
Funny thing is, you couldn’t have a paint named “Rhone Pink” because they come in a variety of colors! Though you probably COULD have a “Tavel Tint” or even a “Provence Pink” paint…or nail polish!...
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Getting to Know Sicily: Rosato Edition!!!
I’ve been on a pink wine kick, I know. Call it my trip to see Barbie at the Hollywood Bowl accompanied by the Sinfonietta, an all-women chorus, all of Los Angeles dressed in pink in attendance. Call...
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They Make WHAT in Napa?
Bouchaine, wild n crazy kids, down in Carneros, the southernmost (yet counter-intuitively one of the coolest) Napa appellations. Sure, they make some Carneros standards (I have enjoyed the Pinot!),...
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Tannat or Not Tannat
Tannat or not Tannat? Have I made that joke before? Welp, I don’t care I’m making it again. And the answer is To. Not, to not. So to. To try Tannat. Part of my intrigue came from my experience with...
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