The Rhône Valley.
That’s all I have to say, it is a region that does not need a proper introduction. South of Burgundy, here is where we start to leave the Pinot Noir, Gamay, Cabernet Franc dominated reds and move into deeper Syrah, Grenache, Mouvedre and Carignan.
Chateauneuf-du-Pape is the big stand out in this region, […]

After a lengthy evening of sipping (and sometimes chugging) champagne, and fun filled conversation, it is now officially 2008. Someone pointed out last night that it will be extremely easy to turn the accidental 2007 into a 2008, which further brightened my excitement for the coming year and a common problem of mine.
Someone else also […]

As one moves on from Undergraduate to Young Business Professional, or YBP as we say at Harvard, it is important to hold on to social conventions once so prevalent in the college arena, and while 10:30am red-eye liquor parties or red wine-white t-shirt bashes are no longer acceptable to the population that inhabit the ‘real […]

I developed my interest in wine several years before turning 21, as I’m sure many others have. The high-school food and beverage job, that exposed so many of us to the wonders of the world, was my first real introduction into the world of wine. Initially because the most expensive items sold were […]

I brought a bottle of this home the other night – opened it, poured two glasses, left them in the kitchen and stepped in to have a shower. When I emerged I found that my wife had come home. She was sitting on the couch in the living room with a glass of the Can […]