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Last week, The Wife and I walked down to Charles Street and into Juniors for their Chef’s Wine Tasting Dinner. These sorts of things, where you sit in a small group with the winemaker and have a multi-course meal pared with his wine, are somewhat unique [...]
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$25 to get into the Federal Hill Wine Festival with 12 tickets. Each ticket worth one taste of wine. My numbers-based brain kicked into gear.
Local wines for $2 a taste, really?
In liters, how much beer could be purchased in Cross Street Market for $25?
Which would be a better value?
In these economic times, one must [...]
Washingtonian outlined four great winery trips in Virginia and Maryland.
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The Kent County office of Economic Development is looking to help you get started on the road to owning and operating your own vineyard. MarylandWine.com put out a story last month on their ambitious program for vineyard expansion in Kent County. The County is doing it the smart way, with money.
A vineyard loan [...]
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…makes me happy to live in Baltimore. No snooty wine terms here, hon.
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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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This week I’m participating in a project featured on drinklocalwine.com. Headed by Jeff Siegel and Dave McIntyre, drinklocalwine.com was put together to highlight the “everywhere else” in American wine regions. Since “wine country” means west coast to so many wine drinkers, the project is going to draw attention to wines from where you [...]
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The Wife and I were wandering through Fells Point three Fridays ago when V-NO Wine Bar pretty much fell out of the sky and greeted us. Sitting out on a nice spot facing the water, the place had a scrappy elegance about it when we walked inside. The menu (and retail section) is [...]
Bin 604 has navigated the treacherous waters of alcohol permits and is now open from 12-8 on Sundays. To celebrate, they’re pouring a bunch of Italian wines from 2-6 this Sunday, September 28.
On the slate:
1.Ferrari Brut NV $22.99
2.Ferrari Brut Rose NV $32.99
3.Fonterutoli Chianti Classico 2006 $24.99
4.Feudi di San Gregorio Falanghina “Sannio” 2007 [...]
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Hello fellow Vinotrippers.
I know you’ve been waiting for this post with unbridled anticipation - the second of the guest posts with Gary AFK. Hopefully this will be worth your patience. First, a little about me. I’m Jamie and I’m a highly-educated wine connoisseur (read: avid bar-hopper who lived in San Francisco for 2 years). I’m also a [...]
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