Alcoholic and unbalanced, giving way to aromas of nothing in particular. I was disappointed, considering this bottle retails for a little over $20. The Wife made it two sips before she poured it down the sink. We opened up something else to drink and I let a glass of the Elk Run sit out for [...]
One thing I’d forgotten when moving from California: That bottle prices are often higher at the winery than they are at the store. A friend reported that Wegman’s prices trounce those found at the Virginia Wine Showcase, sometimes by a dollar and sometimes by five or six. Those of you wondering where your sub-$10 Virginia [...]
I’ve been holding off posting on The Wine Market for some time because I hadn’t eaten dinner there. The retail wine shop is small and cozy with two aisles with a wide range of affordable stuff under $10 and some high end First Growths high at the top of the shelves. If you’re looking for [...]
I recently came across a blog post (actually written in .doc) that derided the pricing of Virginia wines in light of their perceived quality relative to that of the rest of the world. That post was from 2003, so it’s a problem that isn’t new. More recently, fellow bloggers at Wine Compass lamented the pricing [...]
(This post has little to do with Maryland or Virginia. -ed) Production is down at Ye Olde Screaming Eagle Winery, and that can only mean one thing: prices are up. A 50% rise over last year is expected so those on the mailing list are going to fork up $750 per bottle for their allocation. [...]
I heard from the guy behind the guy behind the guy that the good guys aren’t optimistic about HB-1260 passing this year. They are, however, looking forward to next year, when they feel it will have enough votes. Food and Wine Blog posted an all-inclusive update here. There is a hearing on the bill today [...]
Three cups of flour, three eggs, and two hours of manual labor is all it took for me to make my own pasta for dinner last night. In preparation, I’d forgotten to buy a pasta rack, one of those tree-looking things that has a ton of arms from which to hang your pasta. I enlisted [...]
Picked this one up from Beltway Fine Wine for about twelve bucks to go with a stuffed chicken breast dish I was cooking up that evening. The chicken was to be stuffed with a spicy sausage concoction, and I thought the Riesling would go well with the spices in the sausage. I ended up murdering [...]
I didn’t get to taste everything, so this isn’t a comprehensive Best In Show. We’ll just call it Best of What I Tasted. The BWIT: 2002 Kluge Estate – New World Red. A fruit forward wine but the fruit is starting to fade as this was bottled a few years ago. This was the most [...]
Visited the Virginia Wine Showcase on Sunday and had a great time. It was like going on a winery tour but without managing driving and paying tasting room fees everywhere. $25 ticket price got you access to 30-40 wineries and a bunch of other tables selling perfumes, jewelry, olive oil, and cheese. The cheeses, actually, [...]
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