Link Roundup for a Rainy Friday
A brief summation of what is going on outside of Maryland Wine Shipping.
Richard Leahy reports that the first-ever Virginia Wine Week is coming up starting March 22. Kinda cool how whenever the tourism office wants to promote something, then just make it a week. Wine sales down? Wine week! Local farmers complaining? Buy local week! State legislators in the pockets of Alcohol lobby? Shark Week! Restaurants need some love? Restaurant week! Funny that here in Baltimore, Restaurant Week is actually twice a year, each time extending for over fourteen days. Restaurant month, perhaps?
Richard has all the details in his post on Virginia Wine Week.
Andres Stover, a sommelier at two (nice and fancy, I’m sure) D.C. restaurants is on a Quixotic mission to bring in wines from every state that he can. Would be nice to sit down and open up a wine list and see some variety. Dave McIntyre has a brief post and a less-brief Washington Post article about it.
Swirl, Sip, Snark blogs about the merits of Linden’s Hardscrabble Chardonnay. Couldn’t agree more, it’s one of the best whites in Virginia and can stand toe-to-toe with Chards from out west.
The Other 46 finds merit in a Malbec. Not surprising until you hear that the Malbec in question cost $29 and was from Idaho.
March 13th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Damn price tags;-)
Are you going to make it to the DrinkLocalWine.com conference in April? I believe a few Maryland wines are going to make a showing. If so, let me know. A couple of us are headed up to Breaux for a tweetup on Saturday and would love to have you join us!
Cheers!
March 15th, 2010 at 6:30 am
Probably not. April is a really nutty month. I’ll follow the Tweetup though, really like Breaux.