Piece in the Washington Post last week about how Southern Maryland farmers are recycling their tobacco fields into vineyards, hoping to reap the benefits of a booming wine industry.
A region once known for its leafy tobacco fields is trying for a new image: a mini-Napa in the heart of Southern Maryland.
I got a chance [...]
Anytime I ask the family what I can bring to Thanksgiving dinner, I always get the same response:
“Bring some wine!”
It makes sense. I’m the family “wine guy” carrying on the tradition of my aunt. Not counting the wee-ones, I’m the youngest and I’m a guy, so the automatic assumption is that I can’t [...]
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This week, the mostly unheard of 2005 Quinta do Crasto Reserva landed at #3 on Wine Spectator’s top 100 wines of the year list.
Demand has spiked and retailer’s phones have likely been ringing off the hook for the juice ever since the announcement (Something from Portugal that isn’t Port? I MUST drink it [...]
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Anything Wine posted a “how’s it going?” update from Jim Law at Linden Vineyards. To many, Linden is the bar to measure against when it comes to Virginia wines.
The whites sound like they’re off to a good start.
White wines from 2008 will be very mineral driven (similar to 2006) with bright acidity, [...]
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One of the instructions reads “Do not deliver to an intoxicated person.” Glad they got it to me before noon.
This box represents the last of my wines that I had in storage out on the west coast. Having wines in off site storage isn’t uncommon out west or in New York, but around [...]
Amid the news of bank seizures, declining real-estate, and congressional ordered bailouts, fine wine prices are on an absolute tear. Everyone is buying. Asians are buying. Russians are buying. All these new buyers are competing with the old buyers, because while prices are rising the old buyers are still buying. [...]
Piece ran today in the Washington Post about Oasis Winery and the long-running efforts to sell it off to anyone who will shell out a couple of million for a winery in Fauquier County.
The Oasis Winery in Fauquier County, one of Virginia’s oldest, has been on the market since May 2007 and is now selling [...]
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Wine retailer and collector services magnate Vinfolio launched Wineprices.com last month. The front end was designed by Hydrant in San Francisco. The Hydrant team did a great job with the challenge of displaying all the information that Vinfolio has about a particular wine in such a way the the user wasn’t overwhelmed or [...]
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