Pocket Wine Snob

let’s talk wine, shall we? it would be silly to deny my affection (yes, affection) for wine. hence, the website. before we get down to the business of the grape, let’s all make sure we’re on the same page. i love wine. i am picky about my wine, however. i love reds. i love big, heavy reds. i love them even more when they’re served in those big, globe-y red wine glasses where a typical wine pour only takes up the bottom inch of the glass and the rest is empty to allow the wine to open. as far as reds go for me, the bigger, the better. i love shiraz, tannats, syrahs, zinfandels. i also enjoy the lighter side of reds, like pinot noir. falling in the middle of the red scale is the cabernet sauvignon, and of course, my all time favorite, the chianti. i also occasionally like a glass of white wine. my top pick for white wine would be a sauvignon blanc, though typically i’ll default to a red. i AM a wine snob. i do not claim to have the end-all-wine-debates answer to any wine topic. i do claim to be an excessively picky wine drinker, and tend to favor wines that do not come in jug-sized bottles or bottles shaped like animals or shoes.

i promise to be open with my assessments of the wines i post about, if you promise to be open and try a few i recommend, and maybe some i recommend against! i also promise to try a few of your suggestions… who knows? maybe they’ll wind up here!

here’s to a long, wine-sharing adventure that brings stemmed glasses of purple (or white, if you choose!) to any open hand that accepts.

cheers!