A couple of weeks ago I came across a blog (http://thedrunkencyclist.com) that addressed the question of Pinot Grigio — more specifically, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio. I have long puzzled over the popularity of this wine and was thrilled to see someone writing about his experiences with it. Maybe his post could explain to me what it was I had been missing. When I worked at Trader Joe’s pouring wine, I would occasionally get asked if we carried Santa Margherita. We didn’t. Although I pointed out — and often poured tastes of — other white wines we did carry, they were fanatical about their devotion to SM PG. So now I’m reading what someone else, who also had questions about this wine, had to say, and I quote (in part): There was an interesting nose of banana and coconut and on the palate there was an inviting acidity that screamed “food”. I… Read More »
The Irony of White Wine
Now that weather is finally showing signs of cooling down (the thermometer on the patio dropped below 90 last week) I am looking forward to getting back to the red wines I most enjoy. However, last week I’d fixed some shrimp for dinner and suddenly realized I had no white wine — or even a nice dry rose which would go well with shrimp. (How about trying pink wine with pink food like shrimp and salmon? Pink wine — blush, rose — isn’t necessarily sweet. In fact the trend now is a lot more toward dry rose which can be a bit of a shock if you’re expecting something that tastes like white zinfandel! But I digress …) I looked through my rapidly dwindling stock of wine and found two whites — both expensive wines from Daou (www.daouvineyards.com) in Paso Robles. WAY too expensive for me to just glug by myself. So instead I… Read More »
