Gary on December 31st, 2007

These are the top 5 wines that I owned and drank in 2007. I only keep notes on wines own and drink, not from wines taste. For some reason when I taste wines, they usually work better than when I have a glass of the stuff later in my home. Plus, after about [...]

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Gary on December 27th, 2007

Piece in the Washington Post about shelf talkers (the little cards on the shelves of wine shops calling out certain bottles of wine).
Jordan, a scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, rarely spends more than $10 on everyday wine. But this time he decided to splurge. Intrigued to learn more, he logged on to the [...]

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Gary on December 26th, 2007

Vinfolio has a cheap Muscadet in stock for $10: 2005 Ragotiere - Muscadet Sevre et Maine Sur Lie Cuvee Vieilles Vignes (Don’t bother trying to memorize it)
http://www.vinfolio.com/do/store/detail?vid=90826
Muscadet is made from a grape called Melon de Bourgogne, hardly fitting considering that the grape wasn’t used in Burgundy until very recently and even still is treated [...]

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Gary on December 24th, 2007

Tasked with bringing the adult beverages to my family’s Christmas dinner tomorrow, I picked out two bottles of Guigal Cotes du Rhone, a Morgon, 2005 Stadt Krems Gruner Veltliner Wachtberg, and rounded it out with a crowd-pleasing magnum of Yellowtail Chardonnay. Happy Holidays, everyone.

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Gary on December 21st, 2007

As I liberated my wines from the storage boxes into my wine fridge today, I realizes I left a couple things out of my wine fridge post:
Depth and shelf height is important. You want to make sure that one spot on the rack/shelf and accommodate even the most ostentatious of Champagne bottles or the [...]

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Gary on December 20th, 2007

Robert Parker (who lives right up the road in Monkton, MD) is offering limited edition wine glasses on his eRobertParker.com store. The glasses are top notch and carry all the features you’d expect in a top-flight wine glass, including a $250 price tag (for a set of two). $125 spent and you haven’t [...]

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Gary on December 19th, 2007

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Gary on December 17th, 2007

In Best Buy tonight I noticed they had a twelve-bottle wine fridge on display for $99. I’m not sure, but I think it was this one:
http://tinyurl.com/224bo2
Anyway, it was the first sighting of its kind for me here in the East Coast. Wine fridges are all over the place in California which is interesting [...]

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Gary on December 14th, 2007

A friend recently asked about wine storage conditions. This is something I’m faced with myself as we prepare to move into a Federal Hill rowhouse. It isn’t a terribly big deal since most of my wine sleeps in a temperature controlled warehouse in California, but I wouldn’t want to torture the wines I [...]

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Gary on December 12th, 2007

One thing I meant to mention about my first trip to Virginia wineries was that the variety of varietals (how’s that for alliteration?) was much more broad than I saw in California. Our pourer at Breaux Vineyards mentioned that Viognier is fast becoming “Virginia’s grape.” Maybe it likes one week of spring, sweltering [...]

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