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 | April 21, 2011
Three Italian Whites That Get It Right
As Spring makes its appearance where I like to walk along Frog Hollow Road, yellow flowers bloom, tractors cough awake from their winter rest, the season’s first bicyclists spin past coloring the landscape with bright, eye-catching outfits.
Spring also brings with it a gradual shift from hearty cold weather fare [...]
Joel | March 25, 2011
Nusserhof Tyroldego 2006
Nearly forty years have found their way by me since I walked with my dog Storm through the forests surrounding my boyhood home in New England.
Warm days of skunk cabbage, lady slippers and princess pine, watching the ground for specimens to add to my pine cone collection, hands all pine pitch and never [...]
Joel | March 17, 2011
Two wines from Arianna Occhipinti: Sicilia Bianco 2009, Nero d’Avola e Frappato 2009
Sprezzatura, that Italian word which refers to the art of doing something difficult with nonchalant ease, echoes its meaning in Arianna Occhipinti’s SP68 Bianco Sicilia and her SP68 Nero d’Avola / Frappato.
In true sprezzatura fashion, I found both wines to be effortlessly fresh, [...]
