Dim the lights, don the leather and pour the wine! For our first Halloween show, I’m joined by special guest Ellen Clifford of the The Wine Situation – perhaps the world’s only Goth Wine Podcast – to talk about the Top Four Goth songs and the wines that pairs with them. So, what will it be? The Cure with Apothic Red? All I can tell you is that there won’t be any Rosés. Unless they’re Blood Roses…
The 2016 Altocedro Gran Riserva Malbec es muy loco, but in all the good ways. To start, Altocedro harvests from 70-year-old vines from a 107-year-old vineyard. Not unusual, especially for Mendoza malbec. BUT, then they take the harvested Malbec in whole clusters and barrel co-ferment with 4% Semillon in French oak.
The 2017 Clay Shannon Cabernet Sauvignon is almost equal parts Napa Valley and Lake County fruit, but is definitely100% Cabernet… Read More »Clay Shannon Cabernet Sauvignon