By Terry Sweeney The winemakers of Willamette Valley are as thin-skinned and persnickety as their Pinot Noir grapes when it comes to getting the name of their valley right (it’s pronounced Will-AM-ette) and can you blame them? With an average [...]
By Terry Sweeney The best way to describe the Sean Minor 2010 Sauvignon Blanc is “music for the mouth.” Something magical happens when the bottle is opened and the first notes of fresh ruby grapefruit come wafting their way up [...]
By Terry Sweeney Recently I attended a wine tasting where a lady and her husband, visiting our fair city, were very vocal about what they thought about every wine; although from their earlier conversation (which anyone but the stone deaf [...]
By Terry Sweeney In my book, eating a scrumptious wedge of fabulous French triple-creme cheese with a warm crunchy crusty baguette is a religious experience. On the other hand, three or four blocks of rubbery ice-cold supermarket cheese on a [...]
By Terry Sweeney Every so often a Pinot Noir comes along that you just know you shouldn’t get mixed up with. It’s just too luscious and velvety. Its undertones of vanilla and leather are too hard to forget. And the [...]
By Terry Sweeney Right now, it makes my head hurt to think of all the Swedish mulled wine I drank while trying to adjust the recipe with a pinch of this and another pint of that. Lawd! This was my [...]
It’s time to break open those holiday bubbles! By Terry Sweeney Now, I’m no “fizzicist” but I am quite fond of sparkling wines and champagne with their festive little pearls of CO2 that happily tickle my nose and help me [...]
By Terry Sweeney Around the Christmas holidays on the first chilly evening of the year, I like to break out a bottle of my peppery, tummy-warming, ruby-colored old friend … Zinfandel. It pairs beautifully with turkey, or duck, or chicken [...]
By Terry Sweeney Well, fellow Happy Winos, summer here in the Lowcountry is almost over and if you’re like me, you’re waxing nostalgic about fun times drinking wine and swapping hot gossip on friends’ porches, or throwin’ em back at [...]
By Terry Sweeney If ever I were to write an apology to a grape; it would have to be Merlot. In the 90’s, I happily drank gallons of the stuff. It was always my “go-to” red wine; my plummy, velvety [...]
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