my … gosh

yes. This is the first thing I’ve ever tasted from this bottler. Spoiler: the contents of these pieces of glass will thrive for at least a day or two after opening–and maybe for weeks afterward. Bodegas Tradicion, Fino Tradicion No. 586, Saca de Mayo 2017 SRP $40 Color. I poured it after sunset. It’s dark,

High Summer

Seek deep, velvety, unctuous ruby port in high summer. Quinta do Infantado Ruby is unfiltered, medium-dry, and subject of a Summer Madness Sales Event in the state of Michigan. Licensees, see your Veritas representative. Western MKT sells it for $16. It’s an utterly ridiculous price for this quality. I think QdI is really shooting itself

Cembra Schiava

Of all the thousands of wines to drink in the midwest there is nothing to compare with Schiava. It’s a red wine, but so pale that it is actually lighter in color than some rosé wines. The usual reference point for sensually light reds is Beaujolais, but even that doesn’t include anything relatable to this. 2013 Cembra Schiava

Chianti

On one hand “Chianti” is a precisely defined term. On the other hand it has been used globally and for so long that it can mean quite different things to different people: Italianesque red wine; fiascos wrapped in straw; ukelele music dappled in the canopy of an acacia; an essential pairing with liver and fava beans. The expansion of Chianti’s geographical limits within Tuscany

Drink the Sun

A quick attempt to discover the etymology of the Sicilian grape variety known as Inzolia yielded these google translations from Latin: in sol ia = the sun is in solia = throne insolia = SUN Drink the sun. The perpetual search for wine value provides us with certain patterns. One of them is this: use an established wine