by Warren Johnston | Jun 16, 2015 | Columns, Food + Booze, Leisure, The Pour Man
I’m generally turned off by cute wine labels. If I come across a bottle with say, a smiling, cartoon version of Ebenezer Scrooge and a name that borders on the scatological, I immediately assume the taste must resemble the appellation, and a clever label is required...
by Warren Johnston | Jun 2, 2015 | Columns, Leisure, The Pour Man
Last year, during a visit to Beaufort, S.C., a friend introduced me to his new favorite warm weather wine, Gavi, an Italian white wine from the Piedmont region. There’s nothing new about this crisp, dry wine — it’s been around since at least 1659 — but, it was unknown...
by Warren Johnston | May 20, 2015 | Columns, Food + Booze, The Pour Man
Terra d’Oro Zinfandel Amador County, Calif. $9.99 to $15.99 In the early 1970s in Atlanta, you could be considered knowledgeable about wine if you knew that the rose from Lancers and Mateus came from Portugal. And there were ego-boosting bonus points given if you...
by Warren Johnston | May 6, 2015 | Columns, Food + Booze, Leisure, The Pour Man
The Wolftrap Red Blend, 2013 Western Cape of Good Hope, South Africa $7.98 to $9.99 Last week, I heard a wine expert say that the best way for a regular wine drinker to become knowledgeable is to try something different every time. According to his plan, if you are...
by Warren Johnston | Apr 21, 2015 | Columns, Food + Booze, Leisure, The Pour Man
When I was in elementary school, we were considered cool if we could say a few lines from television commercials. We memorized a lot of them. One ad I still remember is “What’s the word? Thunderbird,” an ad for cheap, fruit-flavored, fortified wine named for the Ford...
