07 Gran Feudo Rosado, Bodegas Julián Chivite, 100% Garnacha, Navarra
SCENE: I am in the kitchen of the apartment I share with my boyfriend, the Mathematician. We are eating a lovely summery dinner I’ve prepared of poached salmon, patty pan squash and caprese salad.
ME: Want to help me taste the next bottle in my Toro wine [...]
Regions and Varietals: Bizkaiko Txakolina
D.O. Bizkaiko Txakolina
Pais Vasco, Basque region of North Central Spain
I find the Pais Vasco (Basque region) located in north central Spain intrinsically fascinating – the people are ancient and fiercely independent, the language, with its frequent employment of “X”, a letter woefully underrepresented in English, exotic. The region’s signature Txakoli is [...]
‘07 Cortijo III Rose, Garnacha/Tempranillo Blend, Rioja $22
We’ve passed those novelty days of summer, when the first balmy breezes seem a refreshing counterpoint to, you know, winter. Now it’s just Boston in July: hot on most days, sure, but more specifically, humid. I swim through it to crack open bottle #3 on the Tour-o-Toro, the [...]
This wine is a special and rare find. We didn’t even know they made Txakoli rose, then one day, there it was! Like absinthe before legalization, or jamon from the mythical pata negra pig, or a chupacabra, sitting right there beside me at briefing.
Txakoli is a slightly effervescent, usually white wine made in three subregions [...]
Pink is my favorite color. For a brief period in high school I tried to pretend otherwise: I rimmed my eyes with black liner and pretended that black was the closest color to my heart. I’m pretty sure everyone knew I was posing – it was pink all along.America’s relationship with rosé has suffered a [...]
‘07 Muga Rose, Garnacha/Tempranillo/Viura, Rioja 28
Ah, the Muga Rosé (Rosado en Espanol). I don’t think I could have picked a better inaugural bottle for this project. It’s a delicious, easy drinking rosé (perfect for the heat wave that has had the city under siege for the past week), a [...]
I am going to drink every bottle of wine on the Toro wine list.
One of the great privileges of employment at Toro ( 1704 Washington St, Boston, MA) is that we’re allowed to buy any of the non-reserve wines from the list at cost. Talking about the wine list and recommending bottles to guests is [...]
Once upon a time in the ‘90s, when the South End was the still the gayborhood with nary a stroller in sight, the Franklin Café opened its doors [...]
You’ll never forget your meal at that awesome trattoria in Rome…the one you discovered on a narrow, cobblestone side street, with hand-written menus and just two kinds of wine: red and white. If [...]
