Wine of the Day, No. 459

You may say, "FK, as a person who writes about wine, you receive an ungodly amount of samples for review. Why would you go out and buy wine at retail?" Because, Dear Reader, I have scads of chardonnay, merlot and cabernet sauvignon on

hand, but I grow weary of those wines, especially in their manifestations fashioned in California, where wines made from …