• Bottles and corks from 2011 Foxtrot Pinot Noir.
    Food and Wine Pairings - Pinot Noir/Nero - Varietals - Wine Tasting Notes

    Canadian Wine for Our American Holidays

    December 7, 2015 - By 

    Every year for the past 16 years, Julie and I have hosted a “Sunday Before Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Dinner.” Billed as a pre-Thanksgiving event for our friends who have become our extended family, the event has grown with the square footage of the house and the capacity of the kitchen. From a relatively modest dozen-or-so guests at the inaugural event in 1999, we had 40 guests this year, a near capacity crowd. The menu is steeped in holiday tradition, with a little variation around the edges, and wonderful wine. It has always been a protein-and-dessert-fest, featuring a very large, traditionally-oven-roasted turkey…

  • Ohio Wines - Pinot Noir/Nero - Wine

    Wayda’s Wine of the Week from Ohio’s Grand River Valley

    November 20, 2015 - By 

    It has been several weeks since I have published here because I have been wine traveling and hosting large food and wine parties – but I am back! Julie and I took a long, fabulous wine tasting trip in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, which you will be reading much more about in the next couple of weeks. We also have been entertaining this fall on a large scale, featuring some of our trip’s most interesting wine and food experiences, which I will write about as well. Great wine and food make for great parties. Now, as we prepare…

  • Oregon Wines - Pinot Noir/Nero - Wine Tasting Notes

    Celebrating Oregon Wine Month with Thomas Pinot Noir

    June 1, 2015 - By 

    The month of May was Oregon Wine Month, and while I am not sure by what authority that designation was made, I nonetheless enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to drink more Oregon wines. In honor of Oregon Wine Month, I thought it would be fun to put together a tasting of one of the best, but also one of the least-widely known, Oregon Pinot Noirs. Several weeks ago, I invited a handful of central Ohio’s accomplished wine and food professionals to join me in tasting six vintages of the John Thomas Dundee Hills Pinot Noir. We tasted and evaluated the 2007…

  • Italian - Italian Wine - Pinot Noir/Nero - Restaurants and Wine Lists - Wine - Wine Tasting Notes

    Alana’s Offers Unique Italian Wine

    April 6, 2015 - By 

    As I noted in my very first post to this blog, one potential direction for my budding wine career is to develop an import portfolio featuring wines that one does not often see in the United States. The world of wine is wide and varied, and I am excited by opportunities to broaden the experience of the unique. These can be uncommon wines because they are made from varietals little known here, or are wines from better-known grapes that are grown in regions of the world that are not well represented in the American marketplace. A few weeks ago, Julie and…