For some reason, there has been a lot of alcohol consumed in our apartment over the last few weeks. The picture here is actually from two shabbats worth of consumption. (In all fairness, although Lydia was here for one of those weekends, she contributed shockingly little to the cause).

In case anyone is curious, here are my wine reviews. Starting on the right, the two chardonnays were decent, but not really memorable. (In part I’m not a huge chardonnay fan, so I can’t really judge them so well). The Tishbi chenin blanc is really one of my favorite cheap white wines, and I will continue to buy it. (Although the non-mevushal version you can get in Israel is obviously much better). Sforno and Amiad are becoming two of my favorite brands of wine. Sforno makes an excellent Godello (pictured) and their tempranillo is a very good, earthy white. (Don’t believe what you see on kosherwine.com – it appears that one reviewer simply has a poor opinion of the brand and has entered multiple reviews to skew the average.) The Amiad merlot was good, although not as good as the Amiad cabernet (which, pending a second tasting to confirm, is one of my favorite red wines, bar none). Lastly the Joseph Zakon cabernet was the second pleasant surprise in a row from a winery I hadn’t expected to produce much of value. I don’t think it makes my top 10 (not that I really have one), but you can’t beat it for the price.

During the last few weeks when I haven’t posted at all, I’ve had a bunch of posts floating around in my head that for some reason I never bothered to write down. I’m just going to make them all rapid-fire in the next 2 days or so. You have been warned.