A wine blog by Susannah Gold
This month's #Winophiles is staring the year with great ideas for newcomers to French wines. There are so many great posts that will be part of this series with lots of educational information for all. Jeff, from FoodWineClick.Com has already written some extensive ones which you can find here and here. My approach to this... Continue Reading →
With so much going on in the wine world in the US with impending tariffs, politically with impeachment and possible war with Iran, I haven't been keeping as up to date as I should have about Australia's fires. Today I read many articles about what is happening and it is heartbreaking on so many levels... Continue Reading →
Today's Wine Wednesday is about the House of Lustau's wines which were part of a certification program which I completed this summer during the Society of Wine Educators annual conference. This historic family's history began in 1896 with the planting of grapes on the family’s state - Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza by Emilio Lustau.... Continue Reading →
Tonight I am fulfilling a promise to my nephew and taking him to the Lion King. It's been a long time coming, maybe four years but the cost of the show seemed so outrageous. Earlier on it would have been two tickets but now it's three since my five year old is of course coming... Continue Reading →
Gearing up for the end of the winter holidays, everyone makes numerous resolutions, including me. One of mine is to write more copy on this blog and posting on other people's blogs. Thank goodness for the blogging groups I participate in #ItalianFWT, #WinePW, #Winophiles, without which I think I may have stopped writing. I love... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year. This will be my first post of 2020 and it is fitting that it should be part of the #ItalianFWT blogging circle which this month is dedicated to introducing Italian Wine to a curious friend. Nothing could be more up my alley since I've spent 23 years studying Italian wine formally, 12 working... Continue Reading →
This month's #WinePW is about pet-nat wines or wines that are pétillant-naturel. Since I love sparkling wines of all kinds I was excited. What I didn't realize was how hard it would be to find a Blanquette de Limoux méthode ancestrale from Languedoc. I did find one made in the traditional method. Blanquette di Limoux... Continue Reading →
Today is Wine Wednesday and I am writing about a wine I tasted at a recent seminar on Barbera d'Asti from the Nizza DOCG area specifically. This wine is from Michele Chiarlo. The wines are brought in by Kobrand. I did a few projects for Kobrand years ago and am quite familiar with their amazing... Continue Reading →
