Attempting to set the record for most winery visits in one month, the Bloggers at Swirl Sip Snark have been blasting out a ton of posts on Virginia Wineries over the past few weeks. The writers over there are pretty blunt, so you know you’ll be getting an un-abashed review of the ins and [...]
First boxed wine, then screwcaps, now this. Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland wineries and restaurants are thinking plastic bottles might be the way to go instead of big, clunky, impossible to efficiently ship glass.
Quoth the article:
“The wine doesn’t know what package it is in,” said W. R. Tish, a wine educator who writes a [...]
Infrequent Vinotrip Guest Blogger Jon takes his blog and goes home to review Room 11, a wine bar in DC.
Writes Jon…
I like Room 11.
High praise, indeed.
Your regular blogger has let me pop in again and share a little Maryland wine tour.
If there’s one thing Maryland wineries can learn from Virginia, it’s signage. The very first sign we saw for Black Ankle Vineyards was the one directing us to turn left into the driveway. Virginia, on the other hand, [...]
Cracked open a bottle of Black Ankle’s Bedlam tonight mostly because I’d had a bad run of local wines lately and wanted to pull something out that would be worth writing about. Recall, if you will, my initial impressions of Black Ankle Vineyards Bedlam at the Blank Ankle tasting back in January
Bunch of stuff [...]
The 2005 Prince Michel Symbius is described as
A true Meritage (blend) of Bordeaux varietals create this full, big bodied wine with a smooth, velvety finish.
Prince Michel is a Charlottesville winery with whom I am not familiar, this was my first wine of theirs. The wine is 48% Merlot, and that is apparent with [...]
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