5 Questions You Need to Ask at Your Next Wine Tasting!
Ah, the wine tasting experience. What could be better than a lovely afternoon touring around a gorgeous, sun drenched landscape in a tiny rental car, visiting a few wineries, nibbling on cheese and crackers and tasting your favorite beverage. Life is good, right? For some, it’s purely relaxing entertainment
A delightful road trip through the Vosges mountains
Often during my travels I am absorbed into some episode that does not directly involve wine. I love to share these tangential interludes as they usually follow the same philosophical lens of the Highly Explorable experience - that the world is meant to be enjoyed and discovered! Simple experiences
A visit to Lyon France
With much anticipation, in June 2018 I embarked on a journey to Lyon, the northern Rhone, and the Jura regions of France. It was another jaunt to the traditional motherland of wine, so to speak - to research, analyze and enjoy their beloved nectar. I would be visiting wineries
Upcoming Trip – Lyon, the Northern Rhone, and Jura
Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you into a world of wine that is nearly upside down, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory world of inside out and upside down wine formats that will intrigue and challenge your notion of wine as we know it. This world is the
Pra Morandina Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore 2011
Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore represents one of the best values coming out of Italy these days. It’s not a wine you mindlessly gulp while yapping away with your girlfriends about the latest episode of who. knows what on Netflix. It is a wine to which you pause and gently pay
A brief primer on Valpolicella
My temptation when writing about a wine is to first give an entire lesson on the history and styles of the particular region the wine comes from. This can take a lot of time, and I usually wrap it up before I go too far down the rabbit hole.