Cinghiale, the Italian Osteria sitting out on Lancaster Street in uppity Harbor East in Baltimore, has some good specials running this month.
Monday nights in October they’re doing Monday Night Flights. $49 gets you a antipasti, salumi, and long flight of wines based around a specific region in Italy. October 13th is Piemonte, the [...]
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Picked this up from the LA Times of all places: Both Brooks Robinson and Eddie Murray have lent their names and likeness to a series of commemorative wines that will be sold for charity. Brooks Robinson Chardonnay and Eddie Murray 504 Cabernet Sauvignon are both on sale now and will be shipped in mid-June. [...]
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Gary Vaynerchuk’s book 101 Wines is up on Wine.Woot today (and today only). $10.99 and $5 shipping gets you a signed copy delivered to your door. I haven’t read it, but 1WineDude posted a lengthy review yesterday.
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Wine.woot has a Corison Cabernet two pack up until Wednesday. $60 gets you one bottle of the 2000 and one bottle of the 2001. MacArthur Beverages has the 2000 for $45 up on Winesearcher.com, and the 2001 looks to be about $50 in some other stores. Getting both for $60 sounds sweet.
Nevermind the fact that [...]
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Vinfolio has a cheap Muscadet in stock for $10: 2005 Ragotiere - Muscadet Sevre et Maine Sur Lie Cuvee Vieilles Vignes (Don’t bother trying to memorize it)
http://www.vinfolio.com/do/store/detail?vid=90826
Muscadet is made from a grape called Melon de Bourgogne, hardly fitting considering that the grape wasn’t used in Burgundy until very recently and even still is treated [...]
