Colby Jack Mac & Cheese
We paired this meal with a 2012 Ehler’s Estate Cabernet Franc. You can read about the pairing in my post When Will Some Day Be? Open That Bottle Now. ~Sláinte!
Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Chicken
We paired this meal with a 2013 Ehler’s Estate Cabernet Franc. Our tasting notes can be found on Delectable and a detailed post titled, “A Tale of Two Francs” can be found here.
#MerlotMe More
Rodney Dangerfield of Wine From an October 5, 2016 article in Forbes: “The #MerlotMe movement dedicated the month of October to the Merlot grape—a varietal that has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous movie lines (read: Sideways) for far too long and has quietly been staging a steady, quality-driven comeback. To be sure, this…
Hello, can you #MerlotMe? #WinePW
I love October! The leaves start to change (maybe the only thing I will miss when permanently living in California.) Morning air is crisp, but nice enough to wear one of my many cozy hoodies in the afternoon. Octoberfest beers, show up on tap, and don’t get even get me started on all the pumpkin…
A Tale of Two Francs
“It was the best of times, (I had a bottle of Ehlers Estate rosé and Cabernet Franc in hand) it was the worst of times, (I drank both bottles and I didn’t have another) it was the age of wisdom, (In wine there is wisdom) it was the age of foolishness, (Wine makes people act in…
When Will Some Day Be? Open That Bottle Now
The final Saturday of February has been declared “Open That Bottle Night” or #OTBN. It was created by two Wall Street Journalists who realized that too many people kept waiting for that special day to open a bottle of wine. Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher , known on twitter as [email protected] created the event in 2000, and it…
Exploring the Wine Glass; March 2, 2016
Fàilte! Welcome to the next installment of Exploring the Wine Glass. Mike and I are big proponents of you should drink what you like and you are the only one who can taste like you. We advocate the fact that everyone experiences the wine differently, so in these posts we do not discuss our tasting notes. Instead we include basic information…