The Wineauxs

Perfect for Halloween - Dracula's Blood. This was a gift, so I'm not sure of the price though I can't imagine a novelty thing l...

I want to hold back on going on a rant here, but I want to make this clear - I loathe Wal-Mart. I felt nauseous entering the store, but whe...

Today being my birthday, I decided to pop open something from the top shelf of the wine rack, aka "the special occasion and whatever yo...

This is an offering from Ciccone Vineyards, the winery owned by Silvio Ciccone, Madonna's father. We visited and took some notes in Jul...

Mollydooker's wines are ridiculously large - their wines can be a bit much for many people and situations. My experience has been rathe...

This is an eight dollar bottle of wine at Costco - we dug the 2006, so why not snag an 07? Black pepper and cherry on the nose. A big cola q...

Another from the discount rack. At six bucks - down from fourteen - I was game. A blackberry sorta nose. Black fruit - plum, blackberry, bl...

I appreciate when a wine gives some proceeds to charity - I also appreciate when they are up front with what how much. A quarter may not se...

On the one hand, one should not think of sparkling wine as something to consume only for celebration. On the other, why not celebrate the l...

I got this for about eleven bones (500 ml bottle) on sale - it normally goes for around fifteen I think. This was tasted in less than ideal...

A while back, Shannon from Michigan By the Bottle wrote an article praising free tastings and arguing (more or less) against them. This is...

I'm not going to pretend to be up on vintage ratings for Michigan, but my understanding is 2007 was considered exceptional and 2008 was ...

I was wandering the audiobook stacks at the local library and the new David Cross book, quite appropriately titled I Drink for a Reason cau...

So we visited Brys Estate a few months ago and were not particularly impressed - in (large) part due to at no fault of the winery , a majo...

There's an interesting ad campaign pushing the fact that Cotes du Rhone is food friendly - even with asparagus? Even with those weird l...

This goes for roughly eight bucks but was knocked down to four. A fairly tight nose - I suppose it's a bit of cherry in there, almost in...

A local shop sold this at $30 - a more recent vintage is going for $33 from the winery itself. Iron Horse is one of the more famous domesti...

This is a strange varietal that is apparently a cousin to Grenache. Cheers to Coppola for making an oddball wine that goes for right around...

We actually have been pretty forgiving to the Little Penguin - when we tried it several years back I recall liking it and feeling that it ma...