Last night as I was dragging the recycling bins out to the curb, I was once again mildly astonished at how many wine bottles I’d managed to accumulate. And I smiled when I thought about what fun we’d had drinking all that! Yowzer! The star of the recycling bin was, without a doubt, the Stags’ Leap 2008 Petite Sirah we opened for Judy’s birthday. You would think — as Judy did — that anything from Stags’ Leap would be dynamite, but it was actually a bit of a let down. I later realized it was young and needed to breathe, or at the very least should have been decanted and allowed to open up. It was tight and a bit harsh. I have an aerator courtesy of friends who know that I love anything related to wine, but really I cringe at using aerators or anything that would interfere with the natural wine process. Okay, I’m a wine purist — I… Read More »