Summer of Riesling doesn’t officially start til next week, but not for grapefriend! Kicking it off with some Rosacker Grand Cru. Continue reading
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mad men: wine isn’t old fashioned
So the finale was far less dramatic than last week’s episode, but we did have wine! And of course, leave it to our Official Mad Men Grapefriend, Megan. So first, we see OMMG and her mom drinking some Burgundy. This is what they’ve been drinking all season, and they’re having it as their pre-dinner cocktail … Continue reading
you deserve a grape today, rafael nadal!
Oooooooh look who won the French Open! Not much of a surprise but still it’s quite a feat, especially with the rain delay and everything. Surely, it earns Rafa some grapey goodness. We could easily just pop open some Champagne – the region’s about an hour from Paris. But I think it would be much … Continue reading
happy BBQ happy hour
Grapefriend came to a BBQ. Grapefriend came packin with lots of rosé, which goes great with BBQ. Continue reading
grapefriend saves lives
drink me: clos de la roilette fleurie beaujolais
grape: Gamay producer: Clos de la Roilette country: France region: Fleurie, in Beaujolais year: 2010 price: $18 yum factors: Big fan of good Beaujolais – a good light and fruity red option for summer. I also love the appellation Fleurie there as you might remember, so when the guy at Anfora suggested I try it I was in. But when I took my … Continue reading
ray bradbury’s wine love (of the dandelion variety)
Ray Bradbury passed away today, leaving many science-fictional works behind (27 novels and 600 short stories to be exact). His one sort of autobiographical novel though was called Dandelion Wine. The main character is Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy whose grandfather makes dandelion wine during the summer. Most people think of dandelions as weeds, but the Spauldings … Continue reading
god save the grapes
Jubilee Time! Celebrating with English wine? Yeah, probably not. But over the past few years, the quality has been gone way up. English sparkling wine producers RidgeView released a bottle of sparkling rosé, the Victoria, to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubliee. It’s 63% Pinot Meunier and 37% Pinot Noir, with a pale salmon color. I … Continue reading
mad men: the catcher in the whiskey
I’m not that into Mad Men trying to live in the world of one of my favorite books of all time, The Catcher in the Rye. I was getting Holden Caulfield vibes right from that Sally/Glenn convo when he’s in his prep school hallway. Then I realized that Holden dates a Sally in the city. … Continue reading
happy balcony happy hour!
Deep, deep rooftop rosé. Couldn’t love early summer more. Continue reading
