Announcing: Wine Blogging Wednesday 76 (#wbw76) Wednesday April 25, 2012 Australian Comeback Kid-The Barossa Boomerang Sometime around 2008 American wine drinkers flung their boomerangs en masse far outside US borders, feigning good riddance to indistinguishable Australian Shiraz that all seemed to blend together in minds and cellars. US Australian wine imports sagged in volume and value from […]
Strategy & Debate for 2009 Bordeaux
Let’s not debate the greatness of the 2009 Bordeaux vintage as the top wines make their way to US markets. For now, squelch all lamentations over price inflation for first and second growths on the heels of their runaway futures market. Turn a blind eye to Parker’s very recent The Empire Strikes Back article where he wrote “this is unquestionably […]
Steve Heimoff on Wine Blogs and Journalism
A guy from Brooklyn meets a guy from the Bronx inside an Oakland Whole Foods to talk about wine blogging and journalism. This is not a set up line to a cheap joke. It’s a real vignette that was the basis of yesterday’s post about the real Steve Heimoff. We did gab about the New York […]
Grower Champagne Makes Sense
The last few years taught me that Champagne is wine, not just bottled fireworks poised to explode on special occasions. Champagne’s food and aperitif friendliness are more interesting to me now than at any other time during my twenty seven year wine zag. I used to zag around Champagne while others zigged straight at it. I […]
2011 Wine Highlights Part 2- Wine Community
When I launched WineZag in 2009, I did it under a founding motto of “wine is a lubricant for human connection that holds no bias.” The essence of my wine appreciation has always transcended the juice, gravitating to the center of human bonding and relationships that are accelerated by shared wine experiences; either during dinner […]
Clos Rougeard 2007- A Wine List Automatic
Pouring over wine lists before meals is the ultimate public foreplay. In advance of fine dining reverie, the hunt for favorites, values, rarities, ultimates, and classics is my secret little indulgence. It’s a moment of truth that determines the tone of an evening’s meal. I remember the same jittery excitement stepping into Coney Island’s Luna […]
Erpacrife Nebbiolo-Best Sparkling Wine Ever?
Rarely do the polarizing forces du jour swirling around wine’s combustible circles, like new world vs. old world, traditional vs. modern, or natural vs. unnatural(?), create radically new standard bearers overnight. Each corner in the world of wine is too steeped in history, nature, method, and skill to be knocked out in a single round. So how […]
3 Reasons Puech-Haut Prestige 2009 Is Top Holiday Wine
Imagine the convenience of someone delivering two cases of one very perfect red wine to your front door every year at the start of the holiday season. Not 100 point and $6,000 a case perfect, just perfectly versatile, delicious, and affordable red wine for all the usual and familiar holiday situations. Something to serve at oversubscribed […]
Calvet-Thunevin Hugo On Turtle Creek Mansion List
Once again I found myself staring at a classic wine list, this time at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, that was deep in severely marked up classic Bordeaux, Burgundy, and California Cabernet. Looking for an after dinner bottle to enjoy with some colleagues did not call for $300 California Cabernet, $600 Burgundy, nor […]
Wine Writing Styles Reflect Culture
There is no surprise that Do Bianchi author Jeremy Parzen, whose wine and food credentials drip with immersion and cultural understanding, recently managed to illustrate old world vs. new world wine writing styles in utterly poignant fashion. In his post about the differences in European and American wine writing genres he brings new light to the […]
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