Biography
My first taste of wine was a glass of very cheap Riunite Lambrusco (the type of wine you can buy in gallon jugs at Wal-Mart) during my college days. But after four years of drinking rail liquor and Pabst Blue Ribbon, I was ready for something more refined.
I started to take my love of wine more seriously ever since I tasted a 2003 Etude Pinot Noir at a restaurant called Lewnes' in Annapolis, Maryland, a few years ago. The half-bottles were only $18 that night, and since then, the price has skyrocketed.
My goal in writing this blog is to enlighten the public on how good affordable wines can be. Too many "wine snobs" out there rate wines that cost well into the $100s --- wines that most of us could only dream of tasting. This is not that kind of blog.
I rate wines that are no more than $20. Really. You'll never see a review of a wine costing more than that. Even famed wine critic Robert Parker suggests, "Stay open to amazing wines for $10, $15--every bit as good as $50-to-$100 bottles, in many cases better."
As for my background unrelated to wine, I work for a civil liberties organization in Washington, DC, and live in Silver Spring, Maryland, with my partner, Mike, and two cats. I enjoy reading nonfiction, debating politics, watching foreign films, and dining out at the numerous superb restaurants in the DC area.
