Popped a bottle of Breaux Vineyards Jolie Blonde this weekend while trying to comprehend the insanity that is the Nintendo Wii. I remarked in an earlier post that the wine was light and crisp, like a Sauvignon Blanc. It was different out of the bottle. The Jolie Blonde, made from the Seyval Blanc grape, looked [...]
My vitriol for Maryland’s wine shipping laws will find no sympathy up I-83, where Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board keeps wine drinkers on a short leash. Not only can you not have wine shipped to you, but you can’t even purchase from a private wine shop. The only place to pick up your Pegau is at [...]
Wine.woot has a Corison Cabernet two pack up until Wednesday. $60 gets you one bottle of the 2000 and one bottle of the 2001. MacArthur Beverages has the 2000 for $45 up on Winesearcher.com, and the 2001 looks to be about $50 in some other stores. Getting both for $60 sounds sweet. Nevermind the fact [...]
Ah, Virginia. Your lobbyist-driven laws make me miss living there. Yes, Virginia is a state where you can walk into Dick’s Sporting Goods and walk out twenty minutes later with a Glock 19 and enough ammo to really ruin your day. You can walk down the street with your weapon in plain sight and turn [...]
Food and Wine Blog tosses out some recommendations for Baltimore Restaurant Week Dezel on the Virginia Wine Showcase with discounted tickets. San Francisco Chronicle article on Australian vs. German Riesling and paring them with crab and other shellfish. New Vine Logistics keeps your wine shipments cool while managing to not destroy the environment. You might [...]
As the stock market comes crashing down all around us, the best investments in your portfolio in 2008 may turn out to be the Lafite in your basement. You can drool over the fairy-tale-like returns of the Liv-ex here. Wine will continue to rise (though not at this stratospheric pace) for the next few years [...]
Popped into the Vineyard Wine & Spirits closing sale on Saturday. Got there around 4pm and most of the reserve room had been picked dry. There were some stragglers remaining and I plucked out a Brunello and a Chablis to bring home. The $15 and under wines upstairs were holding up but were going fast. [...]
Made some salmon with steamed broccoli and tomatoes last night and opened a 2005 Stadt Krems – Gruner Veltliner Wachtberg to go with it. I didn’t think it would turn out to be a spectacular paring (it wasn’t) but I’d had the Gruner for a while and wanted to try it. The bit about German [...]
Just got an email that Vineyard Wine & Spirits is closing up shop and going out of business. What a drag. No time to cry about it, because the closing sale is in effect starting this Saturday and running until they run out of stuff to sell. Here are the sale prices: 15% off all [...]
Was excited to see a 2003 La Croix de Beaucaillou in The Wine Market for around $30 the other night. Picked it up and poured into the decanter around 3pm to see how things went. It is a little young and didn’t really come together until after a two or three hour decanting. Initially it [...]
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