Wine Wired

Bottle Talk: An escape from the red zone and into Malbec Land

As I said in my first column last month, I love to get people to move outside their “wine comfort zone.” There are thousands of wines made in so many interesting ways that we can only hope to one day try them all. At least I hope one day to try them all.

With this lofty goal in mind, we must continually push the envelope with what we are willing to sample. Many of us, however, (and I am guilty as well), tend to slip back to our old favorites. I am absolutely helpless over a Northern Rhone Syrah and venison tenderloin, for instance, but we’ll save that for another time.

I find that most people who claim to be red wine drinkers….(read the rest here)