I’ve been meaning to do a comment recap on my wine investing post from a few months ago. The comments on that post (all three of them!) were good and merited further discussion and rabble rousing. In the meantime, Eric Asimov has a recent piece in the New York Times on the benefits of a [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user thegourmetro This past Wednesday, Bin 604 hosted a tasting of six wines in the portfolio of Blank Ankle Vineyards, a new Maryland winery intent on creating Maryland wines with quality comparable to those of more traditional wine regions. In short, they’re trying to run with the big dogs. [...]
Gazette.net reports that the 2006 Blank Ankle Crumbling Rock, a Governor’s Cup winner, is selling like hotcakes. “We have probably sold 150 cases. It’s been going like crazy,” O’Herron said recently. Clearly my snarky jabs at the wine prices at Black Ankle aren’t working. Forty dollars a bottle and the wine is flying out the [...]
Just last week, regarding Bordeaux futures, I mentioned that “You’re going to see some Bordeaux estates up for sale before the decade is out.” Well, be it from distress or just selling high, First Growth Megabux Chateau Latour is up for sale. Over at myvinespot.com, Dezel posted about a recent tasting at Whole Foods in [...]
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