The Wine Stalker

“I jumped clear of his kicking legs, looking around frantically for a sturdy weapon - an empty Champagne bottle, or perhaps a premium Argentinian Malbec.”

Viñedos Organicos Veramonte is a leading producer of 100% organic and sustainable wines from Chile.

And so I did...

This wine is calling out for a porkchop.

Myself having Sicilian ancestry, the wines of Sicily hold a special place in my heart.

"Drinks have a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course."

I hope you like pottery!

I was lucky enough to try this stuff before purchase and liked it enough to go online and buy full bottles.

"Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug" was published in 2000, one year before I was legal to drink.

On the fifth of October this year I attended a wine dinner with Silver Oak's Matt Katz.

Photos from the Horizon Beverage tasting in Boston on October 3, 2023.

This book has nothing to do with wine (I believe alcohol is only mentioned maybe twice), but it was so good that I just had to share.

I was sent this book to review in December of 2020, just after one very difficult event in my life and just before another.

Just by going back into the articles on this blog, it should be no secret to you that I'm a huge science and history geek.

"Just as people can project irrational fear of bacteria upon fermentation, people can project any number of irrational fears of contamination by the other upon the race/nation/culture."

This isn't my first run-in with Art of the Earth by Mack & Schühle.

Wine clubs can be a whole lot of fun, and I just got this box by Fly Wines, whose goal is to share independent wineries from around the world with its customers.

I got these new wine glasses by Glasvin!

Yikes, man!

Where have I been?

"I was tempted to suggest that anyone who reduced a living wine - its relationship with its terroir, the stage of its development in its decades-long life, the conditions prevailing at the moment of consumption, not to mention the company in which it was…

Back in 2019 I reviewed a book by Steven Laine called Root Cause and enjoyed the crap out of it.

This past year and a half has been a very difficult one that has changed my life drastically.

Do me a solid and look at that.

I remember way back in the day when I was first getting into wine, the Primus Red Blend was staple of mine.