http://blog.porterswine.com A Blog About Wine Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:15:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What happens when you send me, your local internet wine expert, out to buy a bottle of wine? Well, I come back with seven bottles* (seven, I've found is the maximum a person can carry on the subway and still make it home without his/her arms falling off). $19 Vino Nobile ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/wine-expert-goes-wine-shopping/ Paperwhite/Narcisuss/Daffodil Flowers - soft citrus pith and egg shells sort of aroma. A favorite flower of Tennessee Williams that smells so much like Torrontes grapes it is insane. In Tennessee Williams plays it attracts gentlemen callers when the characters are young and deflects them when they are old... much like ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/things-i-smelled-this-week-2/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="162" caption="I want to go to this guy's party!"][/caption] I've purchased seven bottles of wine in the past week... all but one of them have been for cellaring, all but one of them have been doubles (meaning two bottles of the same wine), and all but one of ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/magnums-15l-bottles-classy-or-sad/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="178" caption="Northern Rhone Syrah Vines"][/caption] Four Syrahs in seven days.... I tried for seven Syrahs, but new world Syrah (second only to Malbec) is one of my least favorite types of wine so I find four to be both an overwhelming number and an admirable effort. The ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/the-great-new-world-syrah-showdown-2010/ the #1 thing I look for is having it be so very, very varietally/terroir expressive that it makes me feel the same way I felt the first time I really "got" the taste/aroma of a type of wine. Much like Summer Roberts, I started my wine career with a very ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/when-i-taste-wine-that-i-have-to-write-about/ My palate is just plain weird so I almost never take anyone's - especially a sommelier's - advice when ordering wine, but your palate is probably not accustomed to pairing dessert wine with almost anything, much less with a rare steak. If you don't work in the wine business though, you ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/how-to-be-classy-and-cheap-when-ordering-wine/ and the best ones for the price were from New Zealand. I did this at the Michael Skurnik Pinot/Germany/Austria/Champagne tasting on Monday. I want to say I was surprised, but that would be a lie; New Zealand has so few vines growing compared the rest of the world that there ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/02/i-tasted-100-pinot-noirs/ I've been writing monthly articles with recipes for a "$30 Dinner Party" over at LifeStylerMag.com, and this month's dinner party article includes wine pairings... BUT for the sake of parralellism and length,  I included a different wine pairing for every dish. Really though I would have paired the same wine ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/01/30-dinner-party-with-wine-pairings/ Ok, so it's only halfway through January, but nonetheless Mocali's Brunello di Montalcino might is the best wine I've had all year. I split it with three friends, and that makes it $10 a piece with the discount I give myself... for a full price bottle, it would be $11 ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/01/10-for-the-best-glass-of-wine-youve-had-all-year/ Some people may know I'm in a fight with myself to figure out if I should become an Alsatian, South African, or New Zealand expert. Right now, New Zealand is winning. I've spent $30 this week on tasting New Zealand wine, and it has delivered more in flavor than any ... http://blog.porterswine.com/2010/01/new-zealand-is-winning/