Wine Category: White
Type of Wine: Chardonnay
Producer: ONEHOPE Winery
Vintage: 2009
Region: Napa, Sonoma and the Central Coast of California
Alcohol: 13.5%
Average Price per Bottle: $18.99
Today Michael and I tasted the third bottle in my ONEHOPE wine half-case – the ONEHOPE California Chardonnay. I was looking forward to trying this wine since it was created in partnership with winemaker Robert Mondavi, Jr.
The grapes for the ONEHOPE California Chardonnay were sourced from a few select (undisclosed) vineyards in Napa Valley, Sonoma and the Central Coast of California. The winemaker also
Archive for September, 2011
ONEHOPE 2009 California Chardonnay
by Shannon Cyr on September 30th, 2011 | California Wine, White Wine, Wine
Mulled Cider
by Dennis Mayer on September 29th, 2011 | Ask the Bartender
With all of the fresh apple cider available locally, I want to use some for an adults-only version. What would be the best spirit to add to cider? Also, do you have any hints for spices (besides cinnamon or nutmeg) that would work well?
To answer your second question first, there are any number of spices that would work well in a mulled cider. You were right to start with cinnamon and nutmeg. Allspice or cloves would work well, too. You don't want to add them all, or you'd get a muddled mess of flavor. Just pick a couple of
To answer your second question first, there are any number of spices that would work well in a mulled cider. You were right to start with cinnamon and nutmeg. Allspice or cloves would work well, too. You don't want to add them all, or you'd get a muddled mess of flavor. Just pick a couple of
Spirits Aren’t Just for Drinking, You Know?
by Jason Lightner on September 28th, 2011 | Liquor
Raise your hand if you only use alcoholic spirits for drinking. Yeah, I figured most of you would. You see, I think spirits are unfairly pigeon-holed into the drinking category. The truth is, they have a wide variety of uses, many of which you may not be aware of.
You may think I'm just a fan of drinking great Scotch, and you'd be right... sort of. You see, not only is Scotch a lovely drink to sip, but it's also a pretty excellent palate cleanser. I'm not talking overly smoky or peaty scotches, mind you. I'm talking run-of-the-mill Scotches
You may think I'm just a fan of drinking great Scotch, and you'd be right... sort of. You see, not only is Scotch a lovely drink to sip, but it's also a pretty excellent palate cleanser. I'm not talking overly smoky or peaty scotches, mind you. I'm talking run-of-the-mill Scotches
Morgon Jean-Ernest Descombes 2009
by Dennis Mayer on September 27th, 2011 | Red Wine, Wine
One of the best ways to get great value from a bottle of wine is to buy a blend. Vineyards put blends together to balance out the strong points in vintages that aren't so great by themselves - wines that would otherwise need time to age, driving up the price. While some blends are famous, and thus more expensive (Bordeaux wines are a great example), other blends are better for everyday drinking.
Today's wine, a blend from vintner Georges Duboeuf, is a good example of the latter. It's nothing spectacular, but at the sub-$10 price I got it at, it's
Today's wine, a blend from vintner Georges Duboeuf, is a good example of the latter. It's nothing spectacular, but at the sub-$10 price I got it at, it's
Double Trouble
by J Frazzetta on September 26th, 2011 | Beer
In the literary world there is a neat device called foreshadowing. To foreshadow is to make mention of events before they happen. Kind of the like the time I said ‘now if someone could market banana bread beer, then we’d be getting somewhere’; that should have tipped you off avid reader. I’ll let you in on a secret: I’ve been planning this for a few weeks and needed some build up time to find all the pieces. I’m here to tell you that someone made banana bread into a beer, and it was interesting.
In this corner weighing in
In this corner weighing in
