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Good Times with B.R. Cohn Cabernet
Silver Label and Olive Hill In recent weeks I’ve enjoyed three Cabernet Sauvignons from the B.R. Cohn winery in Sonoma, California. Bruce Cohn purchased the property in 1974 and is the manager of the...
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Brabo in Old Town Delivers
Brabo at the top of King Street Recently Gabriele and I enjoyed a true dining experience at Brabo, a Belgian restaurant in Alexandria next to the Lorien Hotel and Spa. We have enjoyed their Tasting...
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Guicciardini Tuscan Wine Dinner
Castello di Poppiano This week Gabriele and I attended an Italian wine dinner at Riverbend Bistro, a favorite neighborhood spot. The theme was wines from Tuscany, including Castello di Poppiano, which...
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Fall 2016 at Calvert Woodley
I lucked out – rock star parking on a very busy Saturday It’s fall in the greater Washington region, so that means it’s time for the Calvert Woodley wine sale. I received the new catalog a few weeks...
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Work, Wine and Wheels New Year’s Eve Triple Shot
Merry New Year! It’s been a great year at Work, Wine and Wheels, though the time demands of my consulting firm again cut down on the number of stories published. Before the clock runs out on 2016,...
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Affordable Bordeaux Redux and Other New Favorites
I’ve written previously on this site about the challenge of finding affordable Bordeaux wine. The wines are out there, but the average wine drinker needs help deciphering which ones deliver good...
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Fine Savannah Dining
We’re just back from a week spent in Savannah, Georgia. It was a relaxing holiday with a lot of good food, and the finest meal we had out was at the well-known Savannah landmark Elizabeth on 37th. As...
View ArticleDurham Wine Finds
Gabriele and I are just back from a week in Durham, NC. We rented a house through Airbnb in a laid back neighborhood not far from the campus of Duke University. It was a fun week, and we enjoyed some...
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Talking Oregon Pinot Noir with Ken Wright
Last week Gabriele and I spent an enjoyable and educational evening learning the finer details of Oregon Pinot Noir. Our instructor was Ken Wright, owner of the eponymous wine company and all around...
View ArticleBordeaux Winners Update
Periodically I share information about Bordeaux wine we’ve enjoyed. Recently we had dinner with another couple at a favorite French restaurant and enjoyed a wine which then led us to a couple of other...
View ArticleExcellent Pinot Noir – Evesham Wood Mahonia Vineyard
Recently Gabriele and I found an excellent, and relatively affordable, Oregon Pinot Noir. It’s the 2015 Evesham Wood Mahonia Vineyard. I heard about the wine from a trusted source for all things Pinot...
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U.S. Wine Market Update
One of the most popular wine posts on this site was a story I did five years ago on the demographics of U.S. wine consumption. So it’s past time for me to return to the U.S. wine market and see what’s...
View ArticleAntiquum Farm Wine Tasting
Last Sunday Gabriele and I attended a tasting featuring Antiquum Farm wines, put on by Grape and Bean in Old Town, Alexandria. Owner and winemaker Stephen Hagen took us through his unique approaches to...
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Red Wine Winners
Recently Gabriele and I have had three excellent wines while dining out. Two were Italian, and one was a Bordeaux. We had a nice Barolo while away for a week on vacation in West Virginia. We had dinner...
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Fine Dining in Pittsburgh PA
Recently we got back from a quick trip to Pittsburgh, PA. Neither of us had ever been before and we were ready for a different scene not too far away. We had also read that there was a flourishing...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and a Costco Cabernet Review
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended society in the past three weeks. It’s a massive challenge and meeting it requires a level of communal cooperation not seen since WWII. I hope everyone reading this is...
View ArticleA French Thanksgiving
Like (hopefully) most people, our Thanksgiving was smaller and quieter this year. We couldn’t celebrate with the number of family and friends that we typically have in past years due to the pandemic....
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State of the Wine Industry 2021
Silicon Valley bank bank produces an excellent annual report on the U.S. wine industry. With all the industry has been through recently, first fires and then the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of the...
View ArticleRed Rhone Roundup
The Rhone wine region in southern France is one of the most famous sources of wine in the world. Rhones wines can often deliver a quality to price ratio that other French regions such as Burgundy and...
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Pittsburgh Delivers Again in 2021
Earlier this month we took a long weekend in Pittsburgh. Gabriele’s new company is headquartered there and her job is full-time remote. But her boss wanted to bring the department together before the...
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