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.

RIPENING.RED

Posted on September 14, 2011 by waywardwine

The clacking hooves of the four horsemen of the apocalypse are upon me. I’ve screwed up. I just ordered 75 pounds of cabernet sauvignon grapes. That sounds normal (for me). But this ain’t balmy Napa. No, I bought cab. from … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, Cabernet Sauvignon | Tagged Apocalypse, Cabernet Sauvignon, California, cold hardiness zone, Fall Bright Winemakers Shoppe, Finger Lake, Finger Lake vintages, Grape, hot twins, Keuka Lake, Ripeness in viticulture, wine, Wine tasting descriptors | Leave a comment

VIGNOLES.VS.VIGNOLES

Posted on September 7, 2011 by waywardwine

So I made this white wine last year. It turned out flawed, hazy, and unexpectedly fizzy. The last third of each bottle is a yeasty murk and somewhat undrinkable. Corks shot from bottles until I caged them. Luckily, I like … Continue reading →

Posted in Keuka Lake, New York, VIGNOLES VENTURING, White, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged bottle, Finger Lake Wine, Food, Fulkerson Winery, home winemaking, Keuka Lake, vignoles, wine, Wine tasting descriptors, Yates Cellars | Leave a comment

Cesanese del Piglio “Colle Ticchio” Corte dei Papi 2008

Posted on August 22, 2011 by waywardwine

If you drive southeast of Rome on the A1, the hills fold, one upon the next, building into the Apennine Mountains. Along the way, Anagni, a medieval town, hangs on a ridge, encrusted with Roman stone walls and cinder-block apartments. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cesanese | Tagged Anagni, Apennine Mountains, avignon, azienda agricola colletonno, cesanese, colle ticchio, colletonno, colosseum, Commodus, corti dei papi, drink, Food, Gladiator, Italian wine, italy, lazio, lorenzo landi, philip, Recreation, Ridley Scott, rome, russell crowe, wine | 4 Comments

Baco Noir, Henry of Pelham Family Estate, Ontario Canada VQA 2009

Posted on August 18, 2011 by waywardwine

A week into my Quebec vacation and I’ve yet to imbibe anything Canadian. The government owned wine-opoly SAQ, as reviewed last week, leaves few reasonably priced options beyond Southern France. So that’s all I’ve bought. Sure a Côtes du Rhône … Continue reading →

Posted in Baco Noir | Tagged ADD, baco noir, Canadian wine, concord, Finger Lakes, Great Lakes, Henry of Pelham Family Estate, lake effect, Lake Ontario, Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Pelham Henry, poutine, wine | 1 Comment

Chenin Blanc “Triple Zéro” Jacky Blot, Domaine de la Taille aux Loups, Montlouis, Loire NV

Posted on July 18, 2011 by waywardwine

I’ve wrestled with sugar before. No, not in that way. Grow up. I’ve introduced a dry Lambrusco, a dry rosé, a few dessert wines and fought to keep yeasts converting sugar with my own wines. This week, a wine that … Continue reading →