I fully admit that I am a sucker for red blends. I mean, I have had such wonderful experiences with them! How can you go wrong if you take a bunch of wonderful reds and mix ’em together? Ok, it’s a LOT more complicated than that, but in my humble opinion, a red blend brings out the best in each wine used to make it.
You know those wines that you can always count on? The ones that are so good no matter how many times you taste them? The ones that you can safely order when someone at the table says, “You’re the wine expert, what should we get?” (I don’t care how long or often I write about…
So after a busy summer, The Winey Nest is empty once again. The Winey Daughter is safely ensconced in her second year at college. The Winey Son has some new digs in Texas. It’s just me, The Winey Hubby and The Winey Dog (more on the dog in the future 🙂 I was talking with…
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…
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…
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…
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….