Three Winey Family members hamming it up on the ski slopes of Colorado Today’s wine is Don Rodolfo Malbec (2011, 13.5%, Argentina). The label proudly states that this is a high altitude vineyard (5,900 feet!). I am duly impressed, because I have a healthy fear and respect for high altitudes. Seems that I am one of…
Every year many words are written about which wine to pair with the Thanksgiving feast. You’ll get almost as many opinions about this as there are wine bottles in France. And Italy. Combined. I don’t mean to sound really wimpy about this and all, but when it comes to Turkey Day, it’s best to sip…
One of the joys of being a Winey blogger is that you get to participate in some extremely interesting wine tastings…all in the comfort of your own home. Thanks to web cameras and Twitter, I get to join with fellow Wineys once or twice a month and taste wines that I might never have thought to try –…
According to the Cryptic wine website, “Encryption is the conversion of a message from readable form into a mysterious puzzle”. To me, this usually means math. And that includes balancing the Winey Family checkbook, a job which was yanked from me over a quarter of a century ago. The Winey children were also told (by their…
I normally don’t think of needing a lot of “refreshing” this time of year. When I think of getting refreshed, I am usually picturing myself cooling down after a long hot gardening session. You know: sweaty, hot, tired. But I can honestly say that this November, I have needed some refreshing and it has nothing…
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words “Bennett Family” my winey mind takes me straight to the pages of my all time favorite book, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. I actually love all of her books, but since Pride was my very first Austen read, it gets first place. So when my…
I have freely admitted before that I am a bit, OK, woefully, lacking when it comes to my Italian wine tasting skills. Maybe it’s because I don’t think to make myself look for Italian wines specifically. Maybe it’s because they all have such long hard to pronounce words on the labels (and yes, German wines…
Being the wine loving Winey Mom that I am, I’m all about labels. Sure, I read them for the varietal and the alcohol content and the region…but I am totally not above grabbing a bottle because the label is cute/funny/pretty or if it has a little doggie on it. I also save all my wine…
Rory, 3 months old As you may have read recently on other articles in this blog, the Winey Household has expanded by four little feet…paws, to be exact. Her name is Rory and she is a Maltese/Shitzu mix. As of this writing, she weighs in at a whopping 3.2 pounds, adores her older doggie sister…
That hourglass… Does anyone else get a bit confused with the current usage of the word “wicked”? Cause I know that in some geographic areas as well as certain teenager minds, “wicked” means awesome, wonderful, amazing. And yet to my Winey mind, I can’t but help think of a wicked witch. And not just any wicked witch….
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