Thanksgiving is almost here and that means we’re in the peak of Beaujolais Nouveau season. The drop date for this year’s vintage (i.e., Beaujolais Nouveau Day) was just last Thursday, a week before Thanksgiving. While the origins of Beaujolais Nouveau have nothing to do with Thanksgiving, it’s a happy coincidence that Beaujolais Nouveau wines happen […]
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Cheap Wine Ratings on What Ya Into? Podcast
There’s a French expression I’m quite fond of, “l’esprit d’escalier.” The literal translation of this is “the spirit of the stairs” but meaning of the expression is the experience you have as you’re walking away from a conversation and you think of the perfect response after the fact, when it’s too late. Therefore a less […]
Wine Travel: Rogue Valley, Oregon
Every now and then, I’ll talk with someone who spent time in Napa Valley or Sonoma back in the 1980s or 1990s. The good old days, as they say. It was a time of pioneering and excitement, when winemakers adventurously experimented in order to realize the potential of their terroir. Visiting wineries was pretty casual, […]
Save on Wine and More with Ibotta
Most of what I do on this site are wine reviews to help consumers find good, inexpensive wines. While I love making wine recommendations, part of my mission is to help wine lovers stretch their dollar a little bit further. Sometimes that’s done by sharing specific bargain wines. Sometimes it’s by sharing where to shop […]
Where to Buy: Wine Insiders Club
In our current reality of stay at home orders, quarantine, social distancing, etc., I’ve become even more appreciative than before of online wine retailers who deliver to your door. The two primary categories for online wine sales are online wine shops and wine clubs. With shops you can choose specifically which wines you want to […]
Surprise, surprise! See Saw Wines!
Surprises can be good or can be bad. Either way they tend to create memorable moments. On a recent visit to Orange, New South Wales in Australia, I came across one pleasant surprise after another. Some were absolutely mind blowing surprises, resulting in a slew of memorable moments — right from the moment we landed. […]
Wine travel: Finding Strange Birds in Granite Belt Wine Country
One of the things wine lovers love to do is try something new, something different, something unique. It seems like we’re on an endless quest to find the holy grail of wine. We know we’ll never find that one perfect wine, but the journey is really what we’re after. We want to have unique, exclusive […]
Hunter Valley winemakers embrace chaos at wine tasting
Since 2008, the Wine Media Conference (formerly Wine Bloggers Conference) has taken place in different wine regions. Historically, those locations have been in North America but this year they’ve descended upon Hunter Valley Wine Country in New South Wales, Australia. As a part of this conference, wine writers participate in a “live blogging” or “live […]
Live Blogging Red Wine @ #WBC17
This week is the 10th annual Wine Bloggers Conference, being held this year in Santa Rosa, CA. Yes, even though there have recently been some devastating fires in California’s wine country, the region is open for business again and they want you to visit. Every year there is a live blogging event which is a […]
Live Blogging at #WBC17
This week is the tenth Wine Bloggers Conference (WBC), being held in Santa Rosa, California — where the first WBC was held nine years ago. I was at that first one, so I thought it would be a good idea to come back for this one. One of the annual events at this conference is […]
