Archive for the Wines in Review Category

• Speed Tasting in Walla Walla - June 26th, 2010

  Friday afternoon at Wine Blogger’s Conference 2010 had a dozen white wines come flying by in the form of speed tasting 101. Fingers are stretched, positioned over the keyboard, and the wines are coming fast and furious… Here’s the scoop: A winery shows up at table (7 folks at mine… 300 folks total in the [...]

• Chew on This… - July 22nd, 2009

  In our on-going journey to reframe organic in the wine world, we’re going to play with the term, living wine.

  Wine in general needs to open a while, and we’re talking more than an hour. Imagine wine that gets better for several days once opened, maybe 3, 4, or 5 days.

  Okay, you get up in the morning, you stretch, breathe, get some water in you, a little coffee, step outside, breathe some more air, go for a walk… you’re waking up, and you start to find your mojo for the day.

  If a wine is alive why wouldn’t it need it’s own version of that?

• Biodynamic Wine from Cowhorn Vineyards - June 20th, 2009

  I recently visited Bill Steele of Cowhorn Vineyards in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley (a solidly under the radar viticultural area). When one discovers how young their vines are, paired with how good their wines are, the question becomes, ‘what’s up with that’? Answer #1: Biodynamically farmed grapes made according to Demeter standards so the wine can be labelled as Biodynamic® Wine.

• Domaine Selections Rocks! - June 4th, 2009

  I had some happy wines today, or should I say wines that made ME very happy. The sales representative from Domaine Selections in Southern Oregon, Beverly McKenzie, stopped by with several wines singing in the zone of the Conscious Wine practices & principles. Scores for each wine are explained in My Scoring System. The prices here are the suggested full retail, and you should expect to pay quite a bit more in restaurantland.(…)

• Organic Value at Ashland’s Shop’n Kart - June 1st, 2009

  What would a wine blog be without words on wines? My intention will not be to fill you with descriptive words (although often I won’t be able to help myself), but to offer ideas on what’s new, a good buy, a good story, or something I haven’t thought of yet. With each review will be a score whose meaning can be found in My Scoring System.

• Our Scoring System - June 1st, 2009

  As a buyer for a large wine shop in the NY area, I needed a way to decide if the wine I was considering purchasing for the store was a good buy for the consumer I wanted to sell it to… and whether the odds were good that they would come back and buy it again.

  In my early days of school 65 was a passing grade, 70 worthy of an exhale, 80 meant competent, 90 was ask the parents for something, …

  With that In mind I created the following as a 10-point scoring system to evaluate wine.