Shirley helps make that decision easier by planning some meals ahead of time or by just giving me a warning of what's on the menu for the night. One of the problems with bringing home lots of wine from a Finger Lakes wine tour is deciding which ones to try first. Sometimes though, it can be challenging choosing the right wine for the meal. MORE >>

I can’t help but exclaim, looking at the large, crude, roughly hewn 12th century wine press in the equally antiquated looking cellar. In 2004 he was able to buy out other family members so that he could make the wine he wants to make, and after my tasting today must concur it was fabulous. “Your grandfather actaually used that press!” MORE >>

Franco-American couple Michael and Hélène Affatato purchased the1646-dated Chateau La Gatte in 2004, and enovated it into a B & B and winery. And the servers also thanked Becky and the others for helping them better serve the customers by tasting some of the more popular wines on the menu and being able to describe them accurately. MORE >>

Feiring controls the narrative, one cant help but commend her fairness, quoting him at length. A reader cant help but be gripped by the chapter "Desperately Seeking Scanavino," about the Italian producer of her first love, a 1968 Barolo that most connoisseurs would consider an ugly duckling. Big Joe on April 23, 2008 08:36 PM YIKES. MORE >>

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « And For that Pudding-Like Texture | Main | LVMH--the machine » Looking for that Magical Mood Altering Taste December 14, 2008 Im sure THEY ask you, THEY are surely asking me: what have you been drinking that is exciting. JEALOUSY! JEALOUSY! Dull, short. MORE >>