Enobytes.com, a website devoted to just about everything about wine, posted the top hundred wine blogs in all the land as ranked by Google. Our benevolent search overlord has ranked Vinotrip #56. We’re ahead of nj.com’s Wine Goddess blog but still trailing Oklahoma Wine News. Oklahoma, everyone! You thought Vinotrip had a niche focus? Oklahoma! [...]
My former colleague Doug Wilder has launched his new blog here. Add his blog to your respective reader if you are at all interested in small-production, hard to find, and awesome to drink wine from California, Oregon, and Washington. Doug has personal relationships with many vinters up and down the Pacific Coast and his contacts [...]
Awesome interview over at Pajiba with Kevin Smith. If you’re geeked about his movies, or even about super hero moves or movies in general, go read it (then come back here). In the interview, Smith says the following. It’s long, sorry, but the context was necessary. I’ve bolded the parts you need to read. Circa [...]
CC licensed image courtesy of Flickr user joe lencioni Last week, The Wife and I walked down to Charles Street and into Juniors for their Chef’s Wine Tasting Dinner. These sorts of things, where you sit in a small group with the winemaker and have a multi-course meal pared with his wine, are somewhat unique [...]
$25 to get into the Federal Hill Wine Festival with 12 tickets. Each ticket worth one taste of wine. My numbers-based brain kicked into gear. Local wines for $2 a taste, really? In liters, how much beer could be purchased in Cross Street Market for $25? Which would be a better value? In these economic [...]
Washingtonian outlined four great winery trips in Virginia and Maryland.
The Kent County office of Economic Development is looking to help you get started on the road to owning and operating your own vineyard. MarylandWine.com put out a story last month on their ambitious program for vineyard expansion in Kent County. The County is doing it the smart way, with money. A vineyard loan program [...]
Purchased for $20 at The Wine Market. Golden yellow color, looking think and viscous in the glass. Smelled almost like an Alsatian Pinot Gris at first, but that gave away to lots of oak after a few minutes. Sharp, biting acidic taste which is out of character for a Viognier (vee-ohn-yay) so maybe it was [...]
…makes me happy to live in Baltimore. No snooty wine terms here, hon.
Cinghiale, the Italian Osteria sitting out on Lancaster Street in uppity Harbor East in Baltimore, has some good specials running this month. Monday nights in October they’re doing Monday Night Flights. $49 gets you a antipasti, salumi, and long flight of wines based around a specific region in Italy. October 13th is Piemonte, the 20th [...]
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