Now although we usually try to find good value wines at around $30 or under for our weekly wine picks, we couldn’t help ourselves to go (ever so slightly) over the budget in picking this week’s wine, Channing Daughters 2008 Meditazione.  Wow! This is truly one of the most interesting, complex, funky and fun white wines [...]

As we are only a couple days away from celebrating France’s national holiday Bastille Day (July 14th), we decided to celebrate a little bit early by choosing a French rosé as our wine of the week.  Andy and I have been drinking a ton of great rosés this summer – especially with the recent heat [...]

Happy Australia Day!  For some fun, boozy specials in honor of Australia Day (which apparently commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and which is the official national day of Australia), check out our post below (or click here).  Instead of reaching for one of our favorite bottles of Shiraz [...]

As we start off the New Year,  Andy and I have decided to focus on finding some really great value wines.  We also decided to get out of our comfort zone and to seek out some wine varietals and/or wine regions that we do not normally drink at home.  So, our first wine of the [...]

Austrian Wine Month recently came to a close, but Andy and I are still stocking up on and enjoying some Austrian gems- from the famous Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners to the lesser known reds, such as the Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch varietals. We have discovered some truly exceptional wines, and we learned that a classic Austrian Riesling [...]

We decided to try out some Castlebank Old Vines Zinfandel after we saw it on sale for just under $13 a bottle on WinesTilSoldOut.  We know that the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma produces some great zins, so we were psyched to give a good value zin a try. The grapes were handpicked from 25 to [...]

As we’ve previously mentioned, we scored some bottles of Mollydooker 2008 Two Left Feet at a great price a couple of weeks ago. We love Mollydooker wines and we love the husband and wife team behind Mollydooker, Sarah and Sparky, who we met at a wine dinner a while back. Mollydooker is an Aussie term for [...]

Andy and I tend to taste a lot of fantastic wines (and some not so fabulous wines) each week.  We love to pop open a new, interesting bottle of wine as we sit down to a home cooked dinner, and I especially love to have a glass while I’m hard at work in the kitchen [...]