In Vino Veritas

This is my second installment of Wines on the cheap tip.

I’ve had my years of affluence and my years of absolute poverty. Strangely enough some of the most relaxing, peaceful, blissed out times I’ve had were when I had only the change in my pocket to my name.

Last week I talked about pairing food with wine. I’ll come back to that in a future blog, but I was asked a question today that I’d like to touch on. How come some Chardonnays I absolutely love and others I can’t stand? They’re all the same grape so why are they so different even in the same price range? I’ve talked about how different regions have different growing and vinifying styles,…

There are so many times when I see someone looking at wines in a store with that lost look in their eyes. They are aimlessly searching in hopes that a wine will jump off the shelf and shout “I’m affordable, and have the exact flavor profile that you’ve been waiting for!” Except every time the wines stay on their shelf, and the customer ends up going with a…