I introduced you to my Napa Valley friend Kerrin Laz back in the early days of my wine blog with the article “Dean & Deluca’s Kerrin Laz.” I have followed her career from her early days at D & D to her new venture at K. Laz Wine Collection. Here is just one of the […]
K. Laz Wine Collection, Kerrin Laz, Napa Valley, wine tasting, Yountville
A couple years ago, my good friend Tom Pletcher came to a wine tasting I was holding. And while we were in a discussion about the wines we had tasted, he made the statement “I know how to drink wine but I’m not sure I know how to taste wine.” I found that to be […]
drinking wine, overall impression, sight, smell, swirling, taste, tasting versus drinking wine, wine tasting
In this week’s wine blog I want to share and update you on several items I hope you’ll find interesting. Lettie Teague, wine columnist, author I have been reading The Wall Street Journal for years and one of my favorite columns is Lettie Teague’s “On Wine.” The column appears weekly in The Journal’s “Off Duty” […]
French wines, Lettie Teague, wine books, Wine Club, wine dinners, Wine in Words, wine shops, wine tasting
For the last couple years I have struggled to find a new wine distributor in the Chicago area who would handle our wines. In today’s wine world if you aren’t producing upwards of 10,000 cases of wine per year (I make less than 1,000 cases) the major distributors aren’t interested in your wines. The distributors […]
Chicago, Glenwood Cellars, Manfred Bauer, Morton's Steakhouse, Original Morton's, wine tasting
A couple of weeks ago I had a friend ask me: “How long can a bottle of wine be open before it goes bad?” My answer to the question was “two to three days, depending on how it is stored.” Once the bottle is open, the oxidation process starts. In the beginning this is good […]
Beckmen “Cuvée Le Bec”, Javier's Bistro, Lucchese’s, McCarthy's, storing wine, wine dinner, wine tasting