HeyJaredKristy's Wine Travels
Weekly wine reviews, travel stories and inspiration, sprinkled with a bit of wine education, real life people and their stories, and other random musings as wine and life intersect. Grab a glass and join the conversation.
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This is Uncomfortably Good (opens the original)
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In My Glass2024 Boundary Breaks Dry GewürztraminerThe wine that broke my brain. Really. It had me questioning everything I thought I knew about myself as a human. It still is. Gewürz has never been my thing. I can think of exactly two that I have actually enjoyed. And I can think of dozens more that I most certainly have not. We’re talking nose scrunching, head-shaking, reluctance here. Until now. As I raised the glass, I was ready to do my polite nod at its quality, but inst
In the Line of Fire (opens the original)
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Despite having accidentally set a grease fire on my kitchen stove in my newlywed year (which was put out immediately, but not in time to prevent the sprinklers from being triggered and flooding our entire apartment - as well as the one below…renter’s insurance was a lifesaver), fire was not something I regularly thought about. Of course, in school we were taught to stop, drop, and roll. And growing up in Chicago, we learned about the Great Chicago fire, but the Midwest is generally not prone to
Genuine Articles (opens the original)
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In My Glass2025 Dr. Konstantin Frank Grüner VeltlinerBadda-bing! This Grüner is a zippy, zesty, zeitgeist that’s gunna get the garden party started. It’s fresh, fun and the kind of wine you don’t leave far from reach - because if you do, someone else will be finishing it off. It’s your welcome to the party wine, the appetizer chaser, the first course palate primer, and the spicy dish’s relief pitcher. However you want to play it, it’s for keeps. AirTag. $22 (
One More Round (opens the original)
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Of Method Oregon that is. And honestly, I’d take another round of any of the wines mentioned hereafter.In My Glass2019 JM Sélèque Soliste Meunier Rosé “Pierry 1er Cru Les Charmiers"Fleshy, vinous, and a reminder that it’s impossible to top a good Champagne. This 100% Meunier rosé was no afterthought, nor was it done to add a colorful bubbly to the line-up. It was a passion project from vine to glass - an intentional, gastronomic
Giving You the Fizz (opens the original)
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In the WorksI’ll be drafting the next issue this week, but for my paid subscribers, I wanted you to be the first to read my insights from this weekend’s Method Oregon event in the Willamette Valley - my hot take, so to speak.<img alt="A hand hold
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