Amid the news of bank seizures, declining real-estate, and congressional ordered bailouts, fine wine prices are on an absolute tear. Everyone is buying. Asians are buying. Russians are buying. All these new buyers are competing with the old buyers, because while prices are rising the old buyers are still buying. [...]
Enobytes.com, a website devoted to just about everything about wine, posted the top hundred wine blogs in all the land as ranked by Google. Our benevolent search overlord has ranked Vinotrip #56. We’re ahead of nj.com’s Wine Goddess blog but still trailing Oklahoma Wine News. Oklahoma, everyone! You thought Vinotrip had [...]
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Awesome interview over at Pajiba with Kevin Smith. If you’re geeked about his movies, or even about super hero moves or movies in general, go read it (then come back here).
In the interview, Smith says the following. It’s long, sorry, but the context was necessary. I’ve bolded the parts you need to [...]
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The answer came to me as I drank down my Wine Blogging Wednesday selection, the Sofia Sparking Wine. The answer also came from Dirty of Dirty South Wine, posted in the comments of my review of Bottle Shock.
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Editorial comes out of the Roanoke times today about the Virginia law that demands that 45% of a bar’s sales must come from food and non-alcoholic beverages. If a bar wants to serve mixed drinks, the requirement is 50%. This puritanical law had the (intended?) side-effect that [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk took his Wine Library TV show down to Virginia this week and sent his thunder live over the Internet from La Grange in Haymarket, VA.
Right away he got down to business, calling out La Grange’s Pinot Grigio for the $19 price tag. “Nineteen bones for a Pinot Gris is pushing the high [...]
I started this blog because I like writing and I like wine, neither of which are really related to my day job of Software Engineer. When The Wife and I moved back to Maryland, I thought it would be nice to document our experiences with giving local wines a try. Thus Vinotrip was re-born.
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Yesterday, someone from the Baltimore City Public Schools took an hour out of their day and ran through every listing in my Maryland and Virginia Winery Map. I’m pretty sure it was manual and not a bot or search engine spider because it took them just a hair under an hour to get through all [...]
These days, lots of wine critics claim that they didn’t want to score wines, but their readership couldn’t process their results without numbers and turned into beer-swilling barbarians. The reality is that nobody takes you seriously unless you crown a winner. Remember back in little league when the kids were too young to keep score? [...]
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5a. You’re not a wine bar. You’re a restaurant with wines by the glass and you tagged “Wine Bar” on the end of your name. This is forgivable if only because I understand how hard it is to run a successful restaurant. If you stick some marketing mumbo-jumbo in your name [...]
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