Porch Pounders | The 5 Best Wines for Memorial Day Weekend

There’s nothing more liberating than having official plans for Memorial Day weekend when finally out of quarantine. When Mr. W&D asked me where I wanted to go this

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Snoop Dogg’s 19 Crimes Cali Red Wine Review – Wine This Good Is a Crime

I believe in creating.  I believe in doing what you love…  I believe in bringing an idea to life. It’s just one of the reasons why I love

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Drinking Mettler Family Petit Sirah & Watching Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story Review

The other night, we did a marathon binge of five of the eight episodes of Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story on a school night! Most nights, I’m in bed

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Mainlining 2011 Sonntag Geschlossen Grüner Veltliner, Fish & Chips, & Complaints

Would you rather live with someone who was a perpetual optimist (a Pollyanna)… Or someone who’s a realist with an eye for micro details that can turn complaints

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Time to Get Ballsy and Drink Bougie Wine – Caymus Does Malbec

I’m not sure if you know this… But I’m bougie as hell. The urban dictionary defines it as, “Adjective meaning extravagant, often to the point of snobbery. Usually used about

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What Wine Glasses Should I Buy?

When I was younger, the idea of having separate glasses for wine was absurd. My multicultural wine-loving family always used old school bubble-shaped wine glasses that were squat

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Goddammit That’s Going to Be a Good Steak & How to Dry-Age Steak at Home

When I was little, my mother would swear when she got upset, and I don’t mean “Gosh darn,” or “Oh Sugar.” Her swear of choice was “Goddammit!” She

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What Are the Best Wine Pairings for Steak?

Oh, where do we begin? The simple rule is the fattier the steak, the more of a robust in your face wine you want to drink with it.

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The Violet Eyed Icon – Let’s Make a Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cocktail

There aren’t many icons as outrageously beautiful and stylish, like Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Oh, yes. She’s a Dame. The British-born star was made Dame Commander of the Order

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Voulez-vous Vouvray Wine? The Wine That Needs a Little More Loving

Are you in the mood for something light, a little demi-sec, and a bit frizzante? Now, I can hear you saying, “What exactly are you talking about, Alexandra?”

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