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 beforeContinue readingFreemark Abbey Cabernet Sauvignon (2010)
Oh, Central New York. I wanted to like this $18 wine more than I can say. I spent six years in CNY, including many a fall afternoon on the shores of the Finger Lakes, throwing Frisbees in stinging needle rainContinue readingVilla Bellangelo Pinot Noir 2012
Wine from Texas—well, why not! Our man, Famous Jacob, brought a bottle back after a recent jaunt south. We did not know what to expect. We quaffed it while wolfing down a cheese sandwich—it was a decent light red wineContinue readingMcPherson Tre Colore V. 2012
by B.D. Fischer What to drink this summer? Like most serious wine guys, I poo poo “red in winter, white summer” to the exact same extent that I poo poo “red with beef, white with fish.” Like most things, itContinue readingSummer Wines Survey: What to Drink?
by B.D. Fischer In Sideways Paul Giamatti famously and vulgarly declares (paraphrasing here; this is a family booze site) that he will not under any circumstances drink Merlot. Although equally famously partial to Pinot Noir, in so doing he throwsContinue readingChateau La Croix St. Georges 2007
Both of these red wines came from Argentia, and both cost $8.95 retail at Pearson’s in Washington, DC. Red Diamond Merlot 2011: Like the bottle says, it offers plum and vanilla flavors, the latter being pretty faint. This wine wentContinue readingBargain Red Wines We Have Enjoyed Recently