Last week I went to a 2005 Burgundy preview put on by Joseph Drouhin. All the wines were very cheeky. But when I tasted the higher end whites, I was surprised, confused, pleased, and scared.
Surprised: Tasting fancy white burgundy this young shouldn’t be an entirely pleasant experience. These wines take a little time to come […]

My article in the Seattle Weekly about a surprisingly tasty, hideously named new alcohol.

computerless for the last week, iBook back, shakes subsiding…
Today, please enjoy my last few columns from the Seattle Weekly while I go make the tasting rounds:
More Helpful, Less Wicked
Pete gets the gang back together for a new brown ale benefiting the IMBCR, Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research
White Is The New Port
Yes, it comes […]

I get hate mail. Which is strange…can’t these people just get their own blog? But no topic has inspired as much hate mail as a post I wrote hating on the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen: the TAB Energy drink.
So I thought I’d respond. And I’ll try to be as nice as I can […]

So I get a check in the mail from the Orlando Weekly today. It’s what you call one of them there ree-zih-dyu-wulls. They picked up one of my Seattle Weekly beer articles, What Would Al Gore Drink?
In other news, I have a nasty case of bar rot. For the half of you that don’t […]

What can I say? I feel like such a girl lately–if it ain’t pink or sparkly, I don’t want it. I’ll get over it. Maybe I just need to go chop some wood or something.
Juvé y Camps Cavas ($12 to $45)
Catalunya, Spain (Penedes to be exact)
imported by Winebow, but available in select markets only.
When you […]

Sounds like love, but actually translates to “bitter.” As in, I am bitter I couldn’t talk about all of my favorite bitter liqueurs in my column this week. Why? They are not available in my nanny state, and that makes me un piccolo amaro.
Do-Overs For Gluttony in the Seattle Weekly
tags: bitters, digestivo