by Mary Beth Vierra | Jan 5, 2021 | Wine Education, Wine Regions, Wine Reviews
Happy New Year! 🌟I hope you rang in 2021 safely, warmly and with a glass of something good in hand (even if it wasn’t until your favorite coffee at 8am!) TJ’s Wine Finds – Good Wines Priced at a Steal! Trade Joe’s has a wine aisle teeming with (often)...
by Mary Beth Vierra | Oct 30, 2020 | Wine Education, Wine Regions, Wine Reviews
You like rare, undiscovered, phenomenal? Meet TIMORASSO Timorasso – the indigenous white grape born from the hills around the city of Tortona (the Colli Tortonesi DOC) in the southeastern-most corner of Piemonte, pushing like a thumb between the hills of Liguria...
by Mary Beth Vierra | May 21, 2020 | Wine Regions, Wine Reviews, Food & Wine
It’s Chardonnay Day! What are you enjoying? I’ve opened a gorgeous 2017 Read Holland Peter Martin Ray Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains. Did you notice the vineyard prominently featured in the wine name? Does the vineyard matter when it comes to...
by Mary Beth Vierra | Apr 4, 2020 | Wine Regions, Wine Reviews
Benanti Pietramarina Etna Bianco Superiore 2013 If there were a grand crus white in Sicily, the Benanti Pietramarina would qualify. When friends give you this as a thank you — you know they appreciate you! 80 year old vines of Etna’s indigenous Carricante grape grow...
by Mary Beth Vierra | Feb 1, 2020 | Wine Education, Wine Regions
An Ideal Seafood Wine Muscadet (a wine, named for the region where it’s grown) is produced from a single white grape called “Melon de Bourgogne.” and is grown near the mid-Atlantic coast of France, not far from the fresh seafood and famous...