pop & pour

I’ve been under the weather for the past couple of days, which means no wine, which means no wine reviews, which means sadness for all involved (i.e. me).  But the show and the blog must still go on, so I thought tonight I’d delve into the all-important issue of what makes one cork better than another.  Corks are one of my favourite parts of the whole wine-drinking experience, which is partly why the cork always gets a presence in every PnP wine review — it’s always nice when a good bottle’s cork lives up to the wine within.  Some people have delicately suggested to me that the PnP Cork Ratings are harsh and arbitrary, and to those people I say:  that’s possibly true. Read the rest of this entry »