Author Archives: thewineraconteur

I was putting away some new wine purchases in storage, when I looked at the fixture that I was filling with bottles and smiled.  There on the top of this fixture I have a couple of empty wine bottles that … Continue reading →

Chateau Margaux is one of the four, then five Premier Crus (First Growths) of the 1855 classification of the Medoc.  The Medoc is the glorious part of the Bordeaux region that makes everyone think of wine.  Chateau Margaux had a … Continue reading →

After reading the Bespaloff book, I decided that I wanted to try some of the more esoteric wines of France.  I knew that I would have no problems finding wines from the popular regions like Bordeaux or Burgundy.  Every restaurant … Continue reading →

When people know that you are into wine, sometimes they find something that they haven’t used or forgotten about.   Cordon Rouge 1937 is an example of this.   This is a very celebrated bottle of champagne from the Mumm Company.  Champagne … Continue reading →

As I write these pages, I like to think that we are having a quiet conversation with a bottle of wine, cheese, crackers and other assorted munchies that are really enjoyable.  Now onto the business at hand, a wine scrapbook. … Continue reading →

This was the title of the book that Mr. Paul Mann suggested for my initial reading.  I still have the book, and still is my first “go-to” for quick reference.  It was written by Alexis Bespaloff.  The book was published … Continue reading →

One night I was having dinner in the old Statler Hilton Hotel on Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit.  The dinner was at Trader Vic’s (which at the time was the flagship restaurant of the Hilton chain).  We had ordered dinner … Continue reading →

Back in my day, when you took a young lady out for a date you had dinner as part of the evening.  At local places that were the norm for us, you would have to have twenty pieces of identification, … Continue reading →

As a teenager I remember going with the other guys to the park, and drinking beer, not a great tasting beverage to me, as I always thought it had a bitter taste, but it was the beverage of choice in … Continue reading →

Please bear with me, as I give some background exposition, before I get into the actual stories about wines.   This is all to set the stage for my discoveries and to explain why I enjoy the grape so much. My … Continue reading →