Joel | February 10, 2010
Mad Love. Forever. That’s your likely reward for showing up on Valentine’s Day with Prosecco and white chocolate in hand.
Prosecco’s playful, mischievous character combined with the decadent attitude of white chocolate sets a mood that’s…uhmmm…appropriate for Valentine’s Day.
White chocolate truffles will up the pleasure ante: their round shape indulges sweet shared nibbling, [...]
Joel | February 1, 2010
Vaona Valpolicella Classico 2008, DOC
I imagine setting down a bottle of Vaona Valpolicella Classico in front of a mirror and, in the reflection, here’s what I’d see:
family members cultivating grapes, dressing
vines, hands, pruning knives; doing
good work, living
tradition, pursuing quality
for its own sake.
Yeah, this beautifully classic wine is that honest. Without trying to be overly [...]
Joel | October 27, 2009
Who inhabits the spaces we’ve lived in when we move on? Do they too scent the winter kitchen by tossing orange peels into the old iron stove? Have they looked with curiosity upon the egg shaped depression left in the window sill where we hammered open so many walnuts?
I am always nostalgic about such [...]
Joel | July 29, 2009
Paladin Salbanello delle Venezie 2006, IGT
In Italy, Annone Veneto is a place that takes its name from Ad Nonum Lapidem, referring to its ninth mile placement along the old Roman road via Postumia. Here, the Paladin wine estate sits surrounded by its vineyards, quite nearby the border with Friuli, where regional ways seem to [...]
