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Merlot Thursday: Feudi di San Gregorio Pàtrimo Campania Rosso IGT (2016)
Here we go again, tasting Merlots from near and far! Merlot lovers, it’s you and me against a 21-year-old road-trip movie. (That’s right–Sideways was released on October 22, 2004. So as of last week, it’s officially old enough to drink.) While somms and wine writers are working doggedly to bring Merlot back, there are places…
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Wine, food, and more wine at the DFW Italian Festival (Irving, Texas)
It’s State Fair of Texas season in Dallas this month–but if sharing Fair Park with 100,000 people doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, there are lots of smaller community events to choose from. On Saturday, we dropped in on the DFW Italian Festival, a celebration of Italian food and heritage that’s now in its…
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Review: Donnachiara Fiano de Avellino (2022)
When shopping for EU wines, it can be hard to make sense of the label. There are far too many proper nouns. It’s a humbling reminder of how much there is to learn in the world of wine. For those of us who grew up drinking mass-produced domestic wines with just a couple of words…
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Southern Italy (Campania & Puglia) tasting at Corner Wines (Plano, TX)
Wine, at its best, is both a teleporter and a time machine. The right glass can whisk you away to distant locales visited long ago (or never), to historical moments remembered or imagined by the yearning, eternal soul inside each of your tastebuds. This is why we drink wine. That, and because it’s a tasty…
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Review: Trabucco “ÉRRE” Falerno del Massico (2020)
Small wine shops are the best, am I right? Even better are the ones with a “drink it here” option. Once a week or so, I make a date night out of it and choose a bottle that I can’t find on every wine list in town. Often, it’s a bottle I doubt is on…