I’m in San Francisco this week working with my employer and attending nerd fest 2008 on Wednesday and Thursday. Before all this I went to a wedding, drank too much, and eventually ended up back at Dell’Uva, one of my favorite wine bars in the city. Sitting just off the main drag in North Beach, [...]
Almost four weeks ago I set out two bottles of Selbach Riesling Dry at a party and encouraged partygoers to record their thoughts for Wine Blogging Wednesday. There was no other way to describe the effort other than FAIL. But where there is death, there is life. The host of said party had a half-full [...]
Took out my half bottle from the freezer last night and finished off the frozen wine experiment that I started back when I drank the Erik’s Big Zin from Basignani. The picture is of the wine thawing out on my counter with the frost developing on the outside (the only empty half bottle I had [...]
Financial Times has a ten page special section on wine investing in their paper today and in true Internets fashion has published the whole PDF online. I’m going to read it today and will no doubt have several paragraphs ready to fill up the “Blowhard Predictions” category by the end of the week.
Went to Wine in the Woods this weekend. While Big Brown was running circles around other horses at Pimlico, I was sitting in Symphony Woods with 50,000 other wine lovers listening to Jazz and drinking down Maryland Wine like water. The Wife are lucky enough to have friends who are seasoned tailgaters, so we were [...]
Featured: 2006 Boordy Chardonnay. Not pictured: my other pickle slice (consumed) The early wine glasses: big, aroma-releasing, tailored to each varietal, and a liability in the dishwasher. Broken wine stems and glass bowls abound, and my nice glasses were taken out of the rotation. Riedel devolved the wine glass into a stemless version, solving the [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book 101 Wines is up on Wine.Woot today (and today only). $10.99 and $5 shipping gets you a signed copy delivered to your door. I haven’t read it, but 1WineDude posted a lengthy review yesterday. Link to Wine.Woot.
Jim Porter will be at Bin 604 tonight pouring a slate of William James wines. $19 gets you a flight of 8 wines, chat with the winemaker, and a $10 credit toward one of the wines poured during the evening. Sounds like a pretty solid deal and a chance to go through a couple of [...]
Well, in my case a picture is probably worth closer to 20 or 30 thirty words because I don’t write that much. No matter, here are a few shots from a recent tasting trip: The vineyard at Basignani. Cows beware: A tasting flight all lined up and ready to go: The six liter of Pegau [...]
5a. You’re not a wine bar. You’re a restaurant with wines by the glass and you tagged “Wine Bar” on the end of your name. This is forgivable if only because I understand how hard it is to run a successful restaurant. If you stick some marketing mumbo-jumbo in your name to get butts in [...]
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