In Vino Veritas

    Aging wine is a tricky practice. How many times have you been so enthralled with a wine when you went wine tasting that you bought a whole case, or maybe you just purchased a few bottles because the price ticket was exorbitant? This is kind of like when I tasted the 2003 Lazzarito vineyard Barolo by Ettore Germano. The grape is Nebbiolo and it was giving off intense lush aromatics that I…

Does wine glow in the dark? No, at least not unless the vintner adds some zinc sulfide and stronium aluminate, two elements commonly used in chemiluminescence.     Phew, I just had to get that out of the way. Now for something completely different. To screw cap or not to screw cap. It's been many years since some wine bottles started appearing with screw caps.     The reason…

I find it odd that entirely by coincidence I am posting a blog about aging wine on my birthday... Every year for many years I journeyed to a far away land called Santa Barbara County and in this land was a little village called Solvang (a small Dutch community.) Staying with friends at one of the cottages in the Chimney Sweep Inn, I would walk down the quaint cobbled street…