Wines. Consumed. Enjoyed. Reviewed.
It's a lot of work, but someone has to do it.

This was created by metro Detroiters who love moments with friends & family, sharing tales of travel, food, connection and novel experiences. All that is often made even better over wine & cheese- or dinner- especially when some of the wine or dinner fixins' are homemade!

Having contributed at a couple of global wine-review sites, and getting generous feedback regarding the "novellas" we were leaving as tasting notes, we wanted to create this as more of a homegrown page, a place for us Metro Detroiters to "gather" and discuss- electronically- (but also breaking actual bread when desired) wines available and the places from which we purchase them locally...

Vino has been a part of our personal journey for years, from what we made and gifted to our wedding guests, to how our tastes have changed, to eventually building a unique cellaring space.

We'd love to hear from other metro beverage fans... We want wine lovers to Drink Better Wine in Better Places!

We see this page evolving a great deal over the coming years, if any of you find it useful enough to visit and read the reviews shared.

Noroc & Salud to you all!

What We're About

We're a small group of fun people. We like to stick our neck out. Drive fast, take chances. If we had to describe our energy here with six zingers, these might come to mind, on a good day.

  • Wine. Drink. Write.
  • Travel To Distance Places
  • Cheer Detroit Teams
  • Oogle Fast Cars
  • Soak In Nightlife
  • Nosh Exotic Munchies

Recent Reviews

These are some recent things we concluded based on our uber-palette. If you like the cut of our jib, we invite you to click furiously , with wreckless abandon. Life is too short for anything else. (Click the image for wine details, click the wine name for full review)

2012 Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon
USA> California> Napa Valley
Wow, what a yummy linger this blossom of a wine offers! We just now stopped tasting the finish from last night- OK, not that long, but Oh So Good! On the nose, it opens fresh, fruity, juicy, and earthy without making us think of dirt. It is a supremely balanced vin; nothing obtrusive stands out.

We had two...

2011 Cramele Recaş Cuvée Uberland
Romania> Transylvania> Recas DOC
If 91, on the old 'school' scale, is an A- then absolutely- this wine drank as an A-... We'll put it up there with the 2007 Penfolds Bin 389 ($70) and 2014 Caymus Cab ($75) we had earlier this week (was a nice week for us) and it met or exceeded our smiles from those couple of evenings prior.

It had been in our...

2013 Brancaia Tre Toscana IGT
Italy> Tuscany> Toscana IGT
Very interesting. When a writer has a feeling about a wine, an amateur writer like us, it's so reaffirming when it's already laid out there by another...

On 8/17/2017 - BRETROOKS wrote... "...this one had a bit of burnt rubber to it which receded over time but never fully went away..." And before we saw...

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