Joel | August 3, 2011
Hauner Salina Bianco 2010
Some say it’s the “make-up sex” that puts right a passionate argument between lovers.
Others say it’s the “make-up food” that goes a long way to getting it all good again
This little story of reconciliation begins with hand-made Chinese dumplings, aka “jiao zi”, and a bottle of one of the [...]
Joel | July 26, 2011
Tenuta Sant’Antonio Valpolicella 2007
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH’INTRATE’.
ABANDON ALL HOPE YOU WHO ENTER HERE.
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno
When the Italian poet Dante wrote those words opening CANTO III of his INFERNO, he could have been referring to the under $15.00 wine market: I have many times been burned by wines in that category.
That [...]
Joel | July 14, 2011
Viberti Barbera D’Alba Vigna Clara 1999
A summer sun dissolves into rose-colored atmosphere over the water off Menemsha, yellow moon rising from behind above Chilmark: end of day and beginning of night are trading places.
While such beauty inspires some to thoughts of elemental origins, I drift to afterimages of a wine that immerses me in origins [...]
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 [...]
