Our weary and alcohol-soaked traveling party of four arrived back into Austin at around midnight last night after the first annual Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma, CA. This event was a blast – a non-stop, two-day party and blogger love-fest, which Rachael has affectionately dubbed “Wine Camp”.
This was my first large-scale wine tasting ever, […]

I have been following closure debate for many years. Several years ago, Murphy Goode began offering a valued priced, screw top series, called Tin Roof. We tried their Sauvignon Blanc and found an unassuming drinkable wine that we served several times that year.
Screw tops seem to offer a number of advantages.
First, they eliminate […]

Well, as you may or may not have picked up on, Neil and I are both environmental engineers. And due to this other job that actually pays the bills, I’ll be spending the next two or three months in the beautiful mountain town of Morgantown, West Virginia (birthplace of Don-effing-Knotts). Morgantown is smaller […]

Restaurant wine lists can be extremely confusing with long lists of wines that you know nothing about — in fact, many of the wines you cannot even pronounce. When the waiter comes to offer assistance, you realize that he or she does not know anymore about the wine list than you do. At […]

Alice Feiring has blogged about it, the Wall Street Journal has complained about it, the Wine Spectator put it on their front cover, and it happened to us on our last outing – bad wine service. I know that this sort of thing happens, but there appears to be an epidemic. To make […]

Living in Texas, we can’t order wine online for about three or four months each year, because it will be cooked by high temperatures during shipping. Neil and I have talked before about how useful it would be to have a wine label that passively showed some temperature history of the bottle. Well, […]

What wine goes with Hurricane Ike? Do you go for the cheap shots like Windy Oaks wine or maybe Rainy Crick, or do you go for the more subtle pairing like Rain Riesling from Alois? These are not questions that you get to ask yourself everyday, even if you do live in Texas […]

It’s no secret that De Long’s Wine Info produces great resources for wine education. A recent post of Neil’s talks about his efforts to become a member of the wine century club, which promotes tasting of at least 100 grape varietals. In the past, I’ve been impressed by their wine tasting notebook and wine periodic […]

One of the interesting things about having a wine blog is the way it influences my view of events. For example, my wife and I recently gave a 50th anniversary party for my parents. It was a sit-down affair for about 60 people. I cooked all of the food except the cake, […]

De Long’s Wine Info has started a rather interesting club called the Wine Century Club. Admittance to the club is rather simple — all you have to do is fill out a form attesting to the fact that you have tasted 100 different wine grapes.
I have been tasting and drinking wine for almost 30 […]