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Liquor Direct Holiday Spectacular
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Actually, it's their quot;Holiday... (more)
Wine-Girl.net's Virtual Thanksgiving Dinner: Host and Hostess Edition
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pThis week, Kevin and I are having a virtual (er, imaginary) Thanksgiving... (more)
High Bang-to-Buck Ratio Watch: CVNE Monopole Rioja Blanco 2005 AND Santiago Ijalba Abando Rioja Crianza 2001
The other night at Barcelona Restaurant in Greenwich, CT, I found two more wines to add to our growing list of Rioja wines that retail for less than $20 and also deliver great value.
The CVNE Monopole Blanco 2005 kicked ass I thought. As Gretchen pointed out, it was from a vintage older than... (more)
In Greenwich with Gretchen
Rioja wine dinner at Barcelona Restaurant, November 19, 2008
Gretchen Thomas, wine director for the Barcelona Restaurant Group in Connecticut and one of five sommeliers who came with me to Spain a couple of months ago, invited me up to one of the group’s five restaurants to help her host a... (more)
Selbach 2006 Riesling Kabinett - Fish label
pEvey so often, Destination Riesling in New York, sends me samples of German Rieslings. Most of the time, they aren't wines I can easily find around here, but this one is an exception. /p
pSelbach 2006 Riesling Kabinett - Fish label/p
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The Bunch - a voice for the independents
With more than 1,000 years experience between them, The Bunch is a group of six wine merchants representing the independent sector. With growing competition from supermarkets and high street off licences The Bunch provides a voice for the independents, all be it quite a softly spoken one.... (more)
Ohio v Michigan Wine Clash: Results
div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"pOn Monday night, Kevin amp; I drove up to Columbus to judge the Ohio v Michigan wine clash. Of course, the point of all this is to Drink Local and perhaps make a smaller carbon footprint, and the winners will be sipped at a dinner in Columbus tomorrow... (more)
Straight from the Barrel
pWhat are you doing Thanksgiving weekend? Do you want to escape your relatives? I have the perfect solution. /p
pFive of our local wineries (and vineyards) are a href="http://www.kinkeadridge.com/barreltasting.htm"offering a barrel tasting/a on Saturday, Nov 29. You can visit Harmony Hill,... (more)
Universal What? Doug Frost on Chocolate, Liver & Onions, and the 100-point Wine Rating System
Doug Frost MS, MW at the Worlds of Flavor Conference at CIA Greystone, November 8, 2008. CLICK IMAGE TO SEE VIDEO
Over the weekend, at the Culinary Institute of America Greystone’s Worlds of Flavor Conference in California’s Napa Valley, “A Mediterranean Flavor... (more)
Barbarian at a wine media tasting in Napa Valley
Wine is all about emotion and connection to people, food, and place. A place could be a dining room, tasting room, vineyard picnic, romantic restaurant, or wherever else. As I#8217;ve blogged before, context heavily influences taste.
Out of curiosity I attended a media tasting for small Napa... (more)
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