Bigger Than Your Head
June 27, 2010
18:11
Bigger Than Your Head Wins Again
Dear Readers … I learned yesterday that this blog — affectionately pronounced “Btyh” by its many fans — won the “Best Wine Reviews” category in the 2010 Wine Blog Awards now operated by Open Wine Consortium. The awards were announced Friday afternoon at the annual Wine Bloggers Conference, held this year in Walla Walla — [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 26, 2010
23:19
Oveja Negra Is No Outcast
Yes, Oveja Negra means “black sheep” — the outcast, the shunned — but this quartet of blended wines from Chile should be insiders on your table this summer. The wines are thoughtfully made from sustainable vineyards by Rafael Tirado, they’re primarily tasty and approachable, and the price, as you’ll see, can’t be beat. They’re from [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 23, 2010
20:39
Benito & I Blind-Taste Six Pairs of Big Deal Red Wines
I invited wine-blogging colleague Benito to come over and taste six pairs of mainly limited-edition red wines with me a couple of weeks ago. The wines within each pair were related in some way, mainly in the sense that they were made by the same producer but from different vineyards or appellations. My intention was [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 21, 2010
23:12
Wine of the Week
It’s so blasted hot here — it’s predicted to go up to 101 this afternoon with a heat index of 105 to 110 — that cooking food over, you know, heat seems like the last thing we want to do, so LL has been looking for cool dishes for torrid weather. Last night she relied [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 20, 2010
14:18
A Great Rosé, and Don’t Hate Me for Mentioning It
I am fortunate to live within short or fairly easy driving distance of four or five excellent wine and liquor stores, and I happened to be in one of them a few days ago when my eye fell upon a selection of rosé wines. Now it’s already stinkin’, freakin’, awesomely and unseasonably hot in Memphis [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 16, 2010
22:49
No Shrinking Violets These
It’s ironic that the logo for August Briggs Winery features a delicate dandelion puff-ball with a few of its gossamer filaments a-drift on a gentle zephyr, because these six red wines are anything but gossamer-like. They are, instead, in a few words, solid, substantial, robust. The winery is on the Silverado Trail in Calistoga, in [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 14, 2010
22:59
Wine of the Week
I get so many inexpensive wines from Chile that my heart sinks when I empty a box and see one more carménère. Do not, however, neglect this one. The Viu Manent Reserva Carménère 2008, Valle de Colchagua, is certainly the best wine made from carménère grapes that I have tried so far this year. Guess what? [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 11, 2010
17:46
The Blasphemous Brew of Nameless Gods
When Benito comes over to taste wine, he habitually brings a gift, and today was no different from other occasions. Traipsing through the door, he handed me a black and silver can and said, “Try the beer that drinks like a port.” The beer that drinks like a port? Nay, brethren, like a porterhouse steak! This [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
13:41
BTYH Featured Today on Foodista.com
Readers, today, June 11, 2010, BiggerThanYourHead is the Featured Wine Blog on Foodista.com, “The Cooking Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit.” You’ve already read the post — it’s Monday’s “Wine of the Week” — but follow the link to see what’s up on their website. Thanks, Foodista!
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 8, 2010
17:45
Perfection
“That’s perfect,” said LL, sipping from a glass of Girard Sauvignon Blanc 2009, Napa Valley. She was referring not just to the wine but to its quietly impeccable match with our dinner last night, an improvised dish of Fava Bean Risotto with Mint and Green Peas. It’s always exciting to see fava beans in the markets [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 7, 2010
18:50
Wine of the Week
If you’re grilling salmon or trout this week or preparing a vegetarian pasta dish or a Southeast Asian stir-fry, twist open a bottle of the Kilikanoon “Mort’s Block” Riesling 2009, from the Watervale area of South Australia’s lovely Clare Valley. The Clare Valley is one of the world’s great regions for producing wines made from [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 4, 2010
22:46
The Cork That Broke the Screw
Lo, my children, such a thing has never happened in my many years of extracting corks from wine bottles, thousands of wine bottles. Look at the picture. Yes, that’s my treasured Laguiole corkscrew, a gift, broken by the cork in this bottle of Bastianich Tocai Plus 2006, Friuli, which, as it happens, is a terrifically suave, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
June 2, 2010
23:11
This Pasta Dish Needed a White Wine of Class & Restraint
Last night we made the Orecchiette with Cauliflower, Anchovies and Fried Croutons from the May 2010 issue of Bon Appetit. The recipe is included in an article about the cuisine and wine of Puglia, the Achilles heel and actual heel of the Italian boot. Simplicity is the byword in that rugged region, and not much [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 31, 2010
16:10
Wine of the Week
Here’s a sauvignon blanc that’s packed with personality. The Simonsig “Sunbird” Sauvignon Blanc 2009, from South Africa’s Western Cape region, is a crisp and snappy classic bursting with notes of fresh-mown grass, gooseberry, lime peel and grapefruit. A few moments in the glass bring up hints of tangerine and nectarine, beguiling whiffs of tarragon and [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 30, 2010
22:19
They Make White Wine in Piedmont Too
During my excursion in Piedmont back in March, lo these many weeks ago, I naturally tasted primarily red wines, 400 or so. Barbera, nebbiolo and dolcetto are the grapes that have made the region famous, though nebbiolo, particularly in the form of Barolo and Barbaresco, has made it immortal. Piedmont cultivates white grapes too, however, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 28, 2010
18:06
Cooking the Momofuku Way
There’s no need to dilate upon the extraordinary career of Manhattan chef and (now) entrepreneur David Chang, so this recapitulation will be brief. Chang is Korean American, and his culinary stomping ground is the East Village. First, in 2003, came Momofuku Noodle Bar, then, in 2006, Momofuku Ssãm Bar and then, in 2008, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 26, 2010
19:54
Two Great California Cabernets: A Newcomer & an Oldtimer
Geography counts, in war and in wine. The locations, the microclimates or terroirs where the cabernet sauvignon grape achieves greatness are few, through the grape is grown around the world. The Left Bank communes of Bordeaux qualify, of course, though there cabernet sauvignon is blended with merlot, cabernet franc and petit verdot. Small pockets of [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 25, 2010
21:41
Vote for BiggerThanYourHead – Nominated for a Wine Blog Award 2010
Readers, this blog has been nominated again for a Wine Blog Award in the category of Best Wine Reviews. How about that! We won in this category last year, but this is a different year, with a few different competitors. Let’s maintain the momentum! If BiggerThanYourHead is helpful, informative, education and fun, and especially [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 24, 2010
19:02
Wine of the Week
Michel Rolland has been criticized, demonized and vilified, but on the occasions I met and chatted with him, he seemed pleasant and humorous. (He won’t remember this, but we got sort of smashed and had a long witty conversation — so it seemed — at a lovely dinner at the late, lamented La Caravelle back [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
May 19, 2010
17:54
How Many Wines Does Jess Jackson Need?
I received some wine samples from Freemark Abbey not long ago, and I thought, “Gosh, how nice to hear from this venerable Napa Valley winery,” and then I remembered that Freemark Abbey is owned by Kendall-Jackson. Same thing happened with Matanzas Creek and Murphy-Goode. Other labels owned by the Jackson Family Wines division include La [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs in English
RSS | TOP
» What is RSS?