Joel | June 27, 2011
Belisario Verdicchio di Matelica Terre di Valbona 2009
What can one say of beautifully simple, delicious wines, except to pity the people who do not appreciate them?
Belisario’s Verdicchio di Matelica Terre di Valbona is a wine of uncomplicated, delicious dignity, owing to its own honest style.
Founded in the ‘70’s as a cooperative, Belisario has since become [...]
Joel | June 16, 2011
iGreco Catà Gaglioppo Rosso 2007
A flow of humid air lifts gauzy curtains from the open window.
Somewhere, thunder.
Lazy, quiet, stillness.
And…
I. Am. Bored.
I’m especially bored with wine / food pairings that leave me needing adventure.
Seeking to sate my culinary wanderlust, I order a couple of Indian dishes, grab a volume of Pablo Neruda poems from the bookshelf [...]
Joel | June 7, 2011
Santadi Villa Solais Vermentino di Sardegna 2009
A piece of consumer “wisdom” recently offered to me - a suggestion that Italy’s cooperatives produce wines of inferior quality - I find to be rather démodé bullshit.
Once upon a time…perhaps. But, as Bob Dylan once wrote, “The times, they are-a changin’.
In fact, I continue to be [...]
