Sometimes it’s really nice to open up a bottle of wine you don’t have to think about. Just uncork, pour, and sip with whatever you’re having, and know it will manage just fine regardless of whether you have a rack of lamb or mac and cheese on your plate. Naturally, if you go to the [...]
Over the last 25 years or so, the island of Sicily has tranformed itself from an overgrown grape juice factory into a hotbed for cutting edge, superripe, fine wines. Its long, arid, sweltering summers allow for extreme ripening of grapes, thus producing ripe, dense, fruit-packed wines. In the last decade some remarkable (and expensive) Sicilian [...]
When you are looking for a fresh-flavored, light-to-meidum-bodied, food-friendly red wine with good depth and a uniqueness based on its origins, and don’t want to spend a fortune, one region to consider is Sardninia (or Sardegna) in Italy. Perhaps best known for Cannonau (known elsewhere as Grenache or Garnacha), Sardinia still is a relatively unknown [...]
I have been swirling, sniffing, and spitting wines as a PR / marketing professional in the wine industry since 1996, and currently head the marketing communications department for Opici Wines. You can follow me on Twitter @joejanish or @wineweekly.
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