by Webmaster | Mar 31, 2025 | News, Wine Tastings
The Emerald Coast Chapter of the AWS held their March tasting at Pam Davey’s beautiful waterfront home on Sunday afternoon, March 23. Dear friend Bobby Likis offered to pick up Margie and I and drive us out the highway to Pam’s! The extended drive there...
by Bob Holmes | Oct 25, 2024 | Wine Tastings
We only had six sign up for this event, so it was relocated to our secondary location, our home! I thawed out a standing rib roast to roast and and was going to cut it up into bite size palette cleanser morsels. When we only had six expected, I threw in a couple of...
by Bob Holmes | Oct 4, 2024 | News, Wine Tastings
Sarah from Touton Selections poured from their portfolio six wines from France. See Tasting Card below. The whites were nice, as was the Beaujolais, but i found the Chateauneuf du Pape with a great nose and with less on the tongue, especially at that price point. I...
by Bob Holmes | Oct 4, 2024 | Wine Tastings
In spite of our late newsletter announcement, we had twelve attendees for our second Italian red tasting held at my home on October 2. We tasted two wines from a local Italian importer, Ray Jones**, and three wines from Martin’s Wine Cellar* in New Orleans....
by Bob Holmes | Sep 20, 2024 | Wine Tastings
Eleven (11) wines were presented from various distributors. All were promotional wines. The best of show on my dance card was the 2021 Wente Mt. Diablo Highlands Cabernet Red Blend with a suggested retail price of $17. People were nice, music was nice, weather was...
by Bob Holmes | Sep 19, 2024 | Buying wine, Choosing Wine, News, Wine Tastings
Years ago when I was lucky enough to be on the Kistler Mailing List (that was at that time the only way to secure some of the best Chardonnays in California!), I didn’t get too miffed when I was asked to purchase on bottle of Steve’s Pinot Noir for every three Dutton...
