I’m sick of it all. In times like these, I’ve decided to do the only sensible thing I can - start a beer, wine, and food blog.
Nothing will change here, I just want a place to keep all my gastronomical musings, which at the moment are getting lost to posterity through sheer laziness on my [...]

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I picked up a bottle of Kilda Shiraz 2005 from a store called Balducci’s in McClean, Virginia, after the noon-o’-clock high Mass at Fr. McAfee’s today. At $5.99, I thought any South Eastern Australia Shiraz was worth a try.
I was right.
This is a nice wine, a bit on the earthy side (the Shiraz wines I [...]

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If you’re like me, you have a sufficient appreciation for wine that the $3 a bottle variety doesn’t really cut it on taste, but you are unwilling, even for special occasions, to spend more than $15.
I’m finding that most wines that I really enjoy therefore fall in the $6 to $12 a bottle category. I’m [...]

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I’m not a wine snob. Not that I would mind. The fact remains that if I was faced with a blank form labeled “tasting notes” I’m virtually positive that I wouldn’t be able to write down with a straight face any of the normal flavor characteristics. I don’t know what leather tastes like, I couldn’t find [...]

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