The Wine Source: Get Your Free Tastings Here
Finally made it by The Wine Source in Hampden last week for their Rhone Rangers tasting. The Wine Source runs these things all the time: five or six wines poured for free in store. While tasting, I wandered around the store snapping pics on my worthless cell phone camera.
The requisite Avalon Cabernet. This is the good stuff, not the plonk.
A vast selection of half bottles ranging from $9 to over $50. My wine heart has found a home.
If Champagne isn’t classy enough already, now you can drink it out of a can! Sofia Sparking Wine isn’t bad, actually, but I’ve only had it out of a bottle so I can’t speak to the aluminum can version. I imagine it can only get better when drank out of a can with a straw.
The Rhone Rangers weren’t bad but nothing moved me enough to take a bottle home. I did pick up a half bottle of Brunello and a Rose Champagne to sip on.
Coming up this week they have a winemaker’s tasting from Château de la Tuilerie and a tasting of spring sparklers. Wonder if the cans of Sofia will be popped.
The Wine Source
3601 Elm Ave
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-467-7777
April 24th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I want my Champagne / Sparkling in a can! I just want my cans to camouflage for when I go out huntin’!
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 am
If you missed this event last Sunday, you may look forward to attending next year – and if you were one of the lucky few hundred that did attend you ARE already looking forward to attending next year. The event was the first annual PEACH FESTIVAL held at the Calvin B. Taylor House Museum, in the little sister town of Berlin, just a few miles west of the big sister, seaside resort town of Ocean City Maryland. The occasion was a historic celebration of the peach – specifically the peaches from the renowned Harrison Nurseries once located in the area. The day began with a ‘peach’ proclamation read by Mayor Gee Williams followed quickly by a ‘peach’ pie-baking contest, which coincidentally was followed by a ‘peach’ pie-eating contest! Actually, there were pie samplings available for all attendees. At 3 pm, Mike McGrath, host of ‘You Bet Your Garden’ heard on NPR Radio gave a special presentation on gardening. Throughout the entire afternoon there were demonstrations of basket and quilt making, live music, kid’s crafts and races while adult games of croquet and bocce were being played on the beautiful lawns. Inside the museum, informational tours were offered, featuring an exhibition of Harrison Nurseries historic Nursery Catalogues and Peach labels. Also at 3 pm, children gathered and were encouraged to ‘make their own ice cream’! By this time, due to the wonderful attendance, the fresh, homemade peach ice cream made by Worcester County’s own local dairy purveyor – Chesapeake Farms, had run out and many had to make do with fresh black cherry or buttered pecan. Surely a woeful experience! HA!
Alas, at 6 pm the special daytime fete was over…only to be followed by the Museum’s monthly summertime ‘Concert on the Lawn’. On this evening the entertainment was provided by the popular local group – ‘Backfin Banjo’!
For more information on this and other FREE events visit the Taylor House Museum website at http://www.taylorhousemuseum.org. See you next year!
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