Holiday Smack-Up: Homerism and the Sublime at Walter Dacon
Walter Dacon wines, vintage after vintage, are in the top two or three Syrahs I sample from all of Washington and are sometimes flatly the best I taste.
The Pour Fool
Veteran writer, Steve Body, on beer, wine, spirits, the Business Of, and those who make them…
Holiday Smack-Up: A Two-fer of George Remus and The Lost Abbey
I’m making this a two-fer of bottles that each richly deserve their own mega-watt spotlight. By comparison, this is like making Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep share one car headlight: doesn’t do justice to either but, at least, you can see ’em.
A Confederacy of Brats: The Great American Tantrum
What we have is millions of emotional and intellectual toddlers; arrested development cases who grew into the idea that they should always get their way, whether anybody else liked it or not, whether they deserved it or not.
Holiday Smack-Up: The Mega-Value Reds All-Stars
You DO NOT need to spend anywhere north of $50 to get a great bottle of wine for that will shock ‘n’ awe your family, for holiday dinners, or your friend, as a gift.
Holiday Smack-Up: American Whiskey: Paddleford, Old Camp, and a George Dickel Shocker
These are American Whiskies that offer insane QPR (Quality to Price Ratio)…which is what you need to at least create the illusion that self-quarantine is not the vast suckhole you think it is.
Holiday Smack-Up: The Winter Warmer Immortals: Deschutes, Rahr, Sierra Nevada, and Boundary Bay
So, ya lookin’ for a little liquid cheer to help hammer a true SUCKFEST of a year into some vague, celebrational-ish shape? I gotcha, my sufferin’ brethren.
Holiday Smack-Up: Once Again, Uncle Nearest: The Greatest American Whiskey You Never Heard Of
As someone who was so repelled by the South’s heinous record of discrimination and savagery against blacks that I moved all the way to Seattle to get out of the virulent remnants of that culture, it is grimly satisfying to me to see parts of the South, however slowly and painfully, begin the process of accepting and honoring the enormous cultural contribution of its early African American settlers.
Holiday Smack-Up: The Stealth IPAs
Just know that, to some guy who tastes about 500 – 650 IPAs every year, these had that certain Something that really set them apart.
