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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In California, people are always looking for ways to get into the wine industry. It’s a clique that can be hard to break into from the business side as the ties are tight and usually family-oriented. One answer that always applies, though, is to head up [...]
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If you’ve been down to Ocean City recently, you may have seen “OC Vodka” stocked on the shelves of liquor stores. The OC branded Vodka is selling for $19.99 and is flying off the shelves, so says a report on DelmarvaNow.com.
“We can’t keep it in stock,” said Denver Gerhart, manager of Liquid Assets Wine [...]
This was supposed to be one of those run-off-the-mill wine blog posts.
1) I bought it
2) I drank it
3) I blogged about it
4) Post a picture (optional)
5) Profit!
I strive to inject humor and my own brand of witty repartee into the blog posts, but not this time. This time, I was going with [...]
100% or less markup? Check
Bunch of drinkable wines under $30? Check
Balanced selection of Whites and Reds? Check
Plenty of wines by the glass? Check
Something Italian? Check
Bonus points: Something local? Check
The wine list at The Dogwood in Hamden takes care of pretty much everything I need out of a restaurant wine list. The restaurant itself takes [...]
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The Evening Sun put out a terse item today about the Maryland Wine Festival. The Festival is looking for volunteers to run ticketing, glass handouts, etc… Take it from someone who has done it before, volunteering at one of these things is a good way to go. You provide some much needed [...]
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Just in time for restaurant week in Baltimore and Washington DC, Wine Spectator pushed aside their vintage charts for a moment and released their list of the most triumphant wine lists in the country.
The only two-glass “Best of Award of Excellence” in Maryland went to Lewnes’ [...]
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Saturday night, The Wife was out of town visiting friends and left me all alone to fend for myself for the night. In the early days, this would have turned into a savage situation involving beer, pizza, and an XBOX 360 marathon. But now, the worldly and civilized wine blogger that I am prevailed and [...]
My brain couldn’t keep up with the simple five option tasting menu at St. Michael’s Winery. They were doing a brisk business: every seat in the tasting room was taken, every seat on the deck was taken, and every neuron in my brain was taken trying to decide which flight I was going with.
Shall [...]
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