Category Archives: EMPTIED BOTTLES

Here reside my bottle breakdowns. These reviews provide information about each wine’s context: history, geography, value, etc., and composition: from appearance and aromas, to sweetness, acidity, tannin, body, length, flavors and quality within its type. Each review features a chart where I rank the wine’s qualities (e.g. light, medium, or full bodied) according to the Wine and Spirit Education Trust’s tasting guide. These are snapshots of a wine and reviewer. Don’t be surprised if the wine and your perception of it change. Use this data to buy and taste wine with purpose.

Stop worrying if a wine is bad or good. Judgment only describes the judge. Instead, treat each wine, each bottle, even each sip as a meeting unique unto itself. Find new wines here to stretch your mind and palate.

Open bottle. Open mind.

Nerello Mascalese/Nero d’Avola, Hauner, Salina Rosso IGT Italy 2009

Posted on January 30, 2012 by waywardwine

Lost at sea and desperate for home, they sight an island. Shear cliffs loom above. A citadel walled in copper gleams. Within it they find a hospitable ruler; his court redolent with savory smells and echoes of feasting. The sailor … Continue reading →

Posted in EMPTIED BOTTLES, Nero D'Avola, Red | Tagged Aeolian Islands, Aeolus, Capers, Carlo, Carlo Hauner, Hauner, italy, Malvasia, Nerello, Nerello Macalese, Nero D'Avola, odysseus, Sabbatino, Salina, Sicily, Stomboli, UNESCO, Volcano, wine, World Heritage Site | 4 Comments

Grenache Blend, Cuvée de Peña, V.d.P. Pyrénées-Orientales FR 2008 3L

Posted on January 9, 2012 by waywardwine

While I wait for my wine to age in tank, it’s time to consider the world of boxes. While I recorded this, I found that Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate newsletter gave Cuvée de Peña’s 2009 Red a 90 point score … Continue reading →

Posted in EMPTIED BOTTLES, Grenache Blend, Red, TOOLS TOYS & TIPS | Tagged 3 litres, bag in box, box wine, Catalan, cuvee de pena, French wine, Poussez ici, Pyrénées-Orientales, Pyrenees, Robert Parker, Spain, Wine Advocate | 1 Comment

Midas Touch Ancient Ale, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Posted on October 14, 2011 by waywardwine

Beer? I’m reviewing beer? Seriously? Well, it has been a few weeks. But I thought this was a wine log: one of thousands, where another Caucasian, male, lump of righteousness rambles about stuff in a glass to justify his drinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Beer | Tagged Ancient beer, ancient wine, Andrew Zimmern, Beer, Bizarre Foods, Dogfish Head Brewery, mead, muscat, muscat grapes, Patrick McGovern, Pennsylania University, saffron, TiVo, wine | 2 Comments

piNOT NOir, saratoga winery, LODI, NY 2009

Posted on September 26, 2011 by waywardwine

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. This is just wrong. A bottle of bestiality parading a pinot in order to pander to the puerile, lowest, and least in all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Pinot Noir, Red | Tagged autochthony, bottle, drink, Food, Horse wine, local wine, locavore, pinot noir, Recreation, Tasting room, wine, Winery | Leave a comment

Syrah, “Syrocco” Domaine des Ouleb Thaleb, Thalvin (Alain Graillot), Zenata, Morocco 2008

Posted on September 20, 2011 by waywardwine

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Jordan and more to follow. While revolutions burn through Arabia and North Africa, one monarch has quietly avoided wholesale annihilation. King Mohammed VI of Morocco. His de jure constitiutional parliamentary monarchy kinda, sorta works. When … Continue reading →