24 Nights of Wines: In Good Taste 2024 Advent Calendar — Some Thoughts

These thoughts are a little late in coming. For Advent 2024 we tried In Good Taste’s 24 Nights of Wine Advent Calendar (granted we mostly enjoyed the wines during the day, but as they say “tomayto, tomahto”…) The wines In Good Taste Advent Calendar are represented by 7 different brands – Andiamo (Italian), Balance ofContinue reading “24 Nights of Wines: In Good Taste 2024 Advent Calendar — Some Thoughts”

2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 13

La Pluma Gewurztraminer (California) Day 13’s wine is a California Gewurztraminer from the La Pluma label. It’s been an age since I had a Gewurztraminer, and I am not sure if I’ve ever tasted one from California. Most of the Gewurzes I had were from colder climate regions. So I went into this one notContinue reading “2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 13”

2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 4

“Andiamo” Grecanico Terre Siciliane (Sicily)(IGT) For Day 4 it’s back to Italy, or more accurately Sicily, for this Grecanico. I enjoyed this wine, but when I look at In Good Taste’s tasting notes and mine, I am wondering if we tried the same wine here. IGT’s notes say that I should be smelling and tastingContinue reading “2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 4”

2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 2 (Part 2)

La Pluma Brut (California) On the second day of Advent we finally began our maiden voyage with “In Good Taste”, a “one stop wine shop” founded in 2020, dedicated to crafting and curating small bottle wine flights and advent calendars. We start off with the first wine of the Calendar, a brut sparkling wine calledContinue reading “2024 Wine Advent-ure: Day 2 (Part 2)”