Sharon's Wine Blog

This post takes us to Slovenia, by way of Greenwich Village. A winter weekend lunch in a now chilled Manhattan, wind finding its icicle way up cuffs and sleeves, and a revolving door pushed ar...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2012/02/zidarich-for-chilly-day.html

Often times, as wine fiends, we think we know our tastes, supremely confident in the knowns and unknowns to us, the preferred and the shunned or slighted. Some good friends of mine (more in Ame...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/11/talking-wine.html

Joe Dressner has left us. I choose that expression carefully. In concrete reality, he passed away from brain cancer on Saturday morning. Also, though, he has left us, well, so much. He was an ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/09/wine-importer-joe-dressner.html

I just read an amusing article about a drunk elk that got caught in a tree in Sweden. Apparently, it was running after fermenting apples. Fortunately, I have never so much as gotten my foot ca...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-just-read-amusing-article-about-drunk.html

When I was a teenager, I liked to talk with my uncle about his early days training as a clinical psychologist. We would talk about the different approaches and schools. The fact that the mind h...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/06/rats.html

Champagne is not dead!* It is fairly telling that a tasting organized by a group of like-minded young Champagne growers and held on a sunny spring day in the town of Aÿ would drape itself in ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/04/earth-and-wine-in-champagne.html

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/04/stay-tuned.html

When people have asked me over the course of the past mumblemumble many weeks why I've been away from my blog, I've responded, "Oh, I haven't been away. I've been lurking." I kid, but it is clea...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2011/02/lurker.html

A lot of people haul out champagne for the holidays; it's like that, it's suggestive. I, however, as someone who guzzles the stuff at every wine bar and restaurant and private residence in the ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-lights-and-bubbles.html

–Flashback– Seamus wasn’t looking quite himself this morning. I'd made a Halloween pumpkin, carved out a carefully plotted set of eyes, one nose, one mouth. It glowed prettily with its f...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-wine-turns.html

Oh, psssh, this blog hasn't flatlined, what are you talking about?* Mysteriously, no post has appeared in two months. It could be that they do not sprout, like mushrooms after a rain, but rath...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/10/very-pale-bubbles.html

Every summer from mid-July to early August there is an outdoor cinema festival at the Parc de la Villette in the northeast corner of Paris. As night falls at 10.30pm or so in these long days of...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/08/wine-film.html

I had a madeleine the other day. Not the tea cake, but y'know, one of those things that jogs you, like a cobblestone sticking up that catches your foot and makes you stumble into the past. A w...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/06/proust-for-winos-or-vice-versa.html

This is my latest thrill. And it's thrilling* 2008 Domaine de L'Anglore "Sels d'Argent," which I tasted a couple of months ago twice, two days in a row, made my eyes pop. 2008 Clos de l'Origi...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/05/hello-grenache-gris.html

I have nothing against tasting notes. Truly I don't. Some people write such lively and lovely ones, one wants to read them for the joy of it, not necessarily in order to bone up about the wines...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/04/t-word-followed-by-n-word_26.html

Terroir, yes, indeed. It is often said—and rightly so, I think—that the foods and wines of a region flush, by nature. Some kind of terroir symbiosis. Some earthy confluence of tastes and an...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/04/vin-nature-andouillette-nature.html

Unable to contain myself, I have returned to my frequent thematic stomping ground of farmer fizz. Just up, a guest post scribed by me for my friend Scott Reiner's blog, The Wine Explorer . In...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/02/still-bubbling-up.html

Yes, Pommard. It's one of those things that people who don't know anything about wine know. Like Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Margaux. The word Pommard has a heft to it, a stately ring. I knew Pomm...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/02/pommard-like-that.html

After several days in the Loire Valley tasting natural wines, I find myself back in Paris. Natural wines hold pride of place hereabouts, as well; so it was that I stopped in to a local store �...

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At a recent day of tasting in the small Loire village of Valaire, I joined champagne vigneron Olivier Collin at a table full of Italian wines. The Roagna lineup included a white, "Solea," that ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/02/color-in-blanc-de-noirs.html

It was a month and a half ago, back in the dim gloom of mid-December, as the days were pulling tight and the dark, cold curtain of night fell with its heavy, blunt blade earlier and earlier... ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2010/01/unexpected-addiction.html

For all those who have an unquenchable thirst for more about champagne, surf away immediately to the excellent website Paris By Appointment Only and peruse my roundup of some fine bubbles I'll ...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2009/12/fizz-fizz.html

It's the end of the year, but I'm not going to do a "best of" or "top #" post. I'm just not. In fact, I'm just going to slap up a picture I like of a wine that pulls no punches, and then ramble...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2009/12/as-palate-turns.html

The intention was obviously to write about an astounding champagne I'd had a few weeks ago. But then other great bubbles came my way, and I realized it would be hasty to sum up everything in on...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2009/12/white-black-white.html

It's mushroom season; we're in the thick of it, and beneath, say, a squab en crapaudine or a ballotine of wild duck will be a little heap of black chanterelles or mousserons or cèpes. A few d...

http://sharonwine.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-mushroom-season-were-in-thick-of-it.html