It’s Earth Day, and we’re going green all week! The latest study with news we should pay attention to: suitable winemaking areas will decrease between 25% and 73% by 2050. That’s the impact global warming will have on some wine regions, creating potential water conservation issues. There are all different levels of how green wineries can … Continue reading
The first two episodes (and one was the two-hour preem) made us wait til the last 15 minutes until we got wine. Then in Mad Men‘s whip-you way, we got not just one but two wine scenes in the FIRST 15 minutes! Woo hoo. So let’s start with Joan’s dinner, with three glasses of Lancer’s … Continue reading
grape: Syrah. Most Australian Syrah is called Shiraz – it’s the same exact grape but usually made in a way bolder style Down Under. Not this one – hooray! producer: Luke Lambert – also makes a more refined Syrah, but this one’s the wild younger brother. His others Syrahs are really worth checking out though too – … Continue reading
Confession: I don’t love Malbec. I find it gritty, rustic, and can usually find something else on a wine list or in the store that I’d rather have. But I know a lot of people drink it and today is Malbec Day, so in anticipation I went on a quest to see if I could find … Continue reading
Sort of bored with this Sylvia affair. She seems too frumpy for Don. All of his other tryst women have at least been cool and/or intelligent in some way. She and her poofy hair just seem really lame and matronly. Her saving grace: she’s a grapefriend. When they were at dinner (winner: clunkiest set-up to … Continue reading
I don’t watch Scandal but I might as well since everyone freaking talks and tweets about it so much. I also find it very odd that until recently no one brought to my attention that one of the main characters is a major grapefriend. That said, the show does a shit job of it. I … Continue reading
This, from the opening scene of Charade, which was made in 1963 and still so good. Audrey’s having some déjeuner at Mont d’ Arbois in Megève, Switzerland. Local red wine there is made mostly from either Mondeuse or Gamay grapes, both make light red wine perfect for Alpine ski breaks. (Check out that vintage bottle of … Continue reading
Lollapalooza has been rocking Brazil and Chile with bands like The Black Keys, Queens of the Stone Age (love), Puscifer, and Pearl Jam. Solid lineup, but let’s focus on the last two since they’re the best – because they’re grapefriends. First, Puscifer is fronted by Maynard James Keenan who makes wine. His wineries, Caduceus and … Continue reading
So last night Louisville won, and we are done with the Madness and all its squeaky sneakers. If we were doing this according to grapes, we all probably would’ve been rooting for Michigan, whose wine is a little better than Kentucky’s, at least according to the Wine Spectator who did a Final Four taste off … Continue reading
We had 15 minutes left of the 2-hour premiere and wine hadn’t even been mentioned. Blue cocktails in Hawaii, vodka guzzling at work, puking up Old Fashioned’s at funerals. I was convinced that the opening scene with Don reading The Inferno was Matthew Weiner’s way of telling me to abandon all hope that anyone would … Continue reading
