Drinks Reviews & More
We nabbed this white wine for $7 or so at Safeway. It was slightly herbal and generally pleasant. Just what we were looking for on a 70-something degree day. (Rating: Good) Don’t believe us? Well, these guys also gave it
Do not buy this wine. We got a case of it via a Groupon or somesuch, and it is quite bad. We’ve opened multiple bottles and all of them are the same dreck-quality. A green pepper flavor predominates, making the
An enjoyable $15 bottle of wine. Barboursville Vineyards Pinot Grigio 2013 offers a bit more nuance than the typical mass-produced Italian Pinot Grigios we find in supermarkets. The apple note was an unexpected surprise. (Very Good) You may read more and
It is getting warm here in Washington, DC. Bye-bye heavy reds, hello chilled wines! We got this at Whole Foods for a little under $10. It did not disappoint. In fact, we’ll buy more of it next we can. (Rating:
Drink, Memory: 2010 Freemark Abbey Cabernet Sauvignon by B.D Fischer, ThreeStrangeThings.com Wine is inextricably bound up with memory. This is partially because wine itself is memory—terroir is nothing but the circumstances of creation, like your parents’ blind date a dozen years before
by B.D Fischer, ThreeStrangeThings.com Wine isn’t like a book, or a movie, or an album. Actually it’s like all these things, but not in this sense: It’s nearly incoherent to proclaim a wine of the year. The reasons, I hope, are