On the advice of my local wine steward, Alan, I picked up a bottle of Gran Oristan, a Spanish wine from the La Mancha region. He recommended it as a reasonably complex and flavorful wine for the district. I found it a bit astringent, but with a good smell and taste, perfect for pairing with a strong pasta sauce (as well as in a strong pasta sauce ( Read more... )

This Friday, after the kids were in bed I opened a bottle of Stone Vertical Epic, an incredibly wonderful beer fermented with the juice of wine grapes on top of a Belgian golden triple, along with chamomile ( Read more... )

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I haven't blogged about this because it was lost in the notebook I took with me to the restaurant, but one of the things I had the pleasure of discovering a few weeks ago was a wine called Tormaresca Neprica, which was odd because it was an Italian wine served at a French restaurant ( Read more... )

Since I enjoy the ocassional Menage a Trois, I succumbed to impulse and also decided to try Monogamy ( Read more... )

This evening LisaKit had her semi-weekly D&D game. One of the running themes of this game is Barrels of Evil, apparently imported from some other plane. Since we're dealing with Barrels of Evil, one of the other players brought a bottle of R Winery's 2006 Cab Sav, EvilIt has a nice smell, but it's very astringent. Purple colored, flows freely, ( Read more... )

I just tried make an authentic 19th century daquiri: a shot and a half of cheap rum, a half shot of lime juice, and a quarter shot of agave syrup. The Cubans seemed to think it might cure malaria. Well, it'll keep you ignorant of the symptoms, all right, but... yuck ( Read more... )

PopCap games has released Bejeweled Twist for the PC, and is scheduled to come out with a Mac version later this year. Since Omaha is a Mac game reviewer, she gets nifty free copies of lots of different things and one of the things she scored was a copy of Bejeweld Twist PC edition. Most people have seen Bejeweled, the tetris-like game where you ( Read more... )

For the past week, I've been enjoying Bernard Griffin Rosé of Sangiovese, a pretty much perfect summer wine, especially when chilled close to freezing. The scent of strawberry is strong-- in fact, it seems to be the only note of note to the nose-- and it's surprisingly sweet for a wine that describes itself as a "dry rosé." There's a slight ( Read more... )

Snoqualmie Vinyards has a number of wines that they tout, and the 2004 Chardonnay is among them. T best thing the website says about it is its "new packaging!", which I will admit is rather nice. Unfortunately, that's the only thing that's really nice about this wine ( Read more... )