Imagine how easy it is to taste 100 wines.
Yes, maybe it isn’t so easy to imagine; you’ve really got to love wine and be willing to psyche yourself up for the challenge of it.
But if you can imagine how it is to taste 100 wines, then imagine how difficult it might be to choose from […]

15 Winehiker Points*

If you enjoy cultural pursuits and a good book or newspaper, you may have discovered the talents of author, playwright, Hollywood screenwriter, and San Francisco Chronicle wine writer Stephen Yafa. If you’ve been keeping up with the explosive growth of wine blogs this past year, you could probably develop the conclusion that wine […]

Hello, fellow winehikers! I’m Vindu Goel, a hiking and wine-tasting buddy of the original winehiker, Russ Beebe. Russ was kind enough to allow me to make a guest post on his blog evaluating the merits of two vintages of my “house wine,” the Lindemans Pyrus.
As Russ mentioned earlier in his blog, I’ve been a big fan of the […]

15 winehiker points*
Some of you may recall that I celebrated the results of last month’s congressional elections when my friend Vindu cracked open a 1994 Staglin Cabernet from the oft-toasted Rutherford Bench of Napa Valley, California. Vindu had been storing this bottle for quite awhile, and had been suggesting that he would uncork it if […]

7.5 winehiker points*
Every once in a while, we wine lovers find that promise does not deliver what expectation anticipates. You can read all the words that are written to describe a wine; most of us want to believe them enough to reach into our wallets if we are at all tantalized by the copywriter’s scribblings. […]

Mike at The Naked Vine today offers a nicely succinct post about how the tradition of Beaujolais Nouveau began. Plus, he reviews two of this year’s labels, Georges DuBeouf and Joseph Drouhin, and adds his thoughts about BNs. It’s a worthwhile read.
I’ll be sharing results from last Friday’s tasting of 2006 Nouveaux sometime over the […]

17.5 winehiker points*
Last month, my friend Kim passed along a personal wine recommendation to myself and to my friend Vindu. Vindu was the first to respond, saying:
Kim and Russ,
Finally found the 2001 Pyrus in my local Trader Joe’s today. Bought a bottle, cracked it open. OH. MY. GOD. It’s the most awesome $8 red […]

Review of a great red wine from Spain for under ten bucks. [from WineWeekly.com]
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18 winehiker points*
I’ve had a bit of a commitment lately. What a pain in the neck it has been. Shoot, if it hadn’t been for a nearly two-week-long bout of pinched nerves in the cervical spine — the recurring detritus of an old diving board injury — I would have helped myself to this lovely […]

16½ winehiker points*
Here’s that post I promised y’all way back on September 20th. After the novelty of the rubber chicken came the novelty of opening the wine and instantly smelling the herbal muskiness of cat pee.
Cat pee is good, mind you, as long as you’re smelling it in something you’re about to drink and not […]