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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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…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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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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When I posted about Wine Spectator’s Awards of Excellence a few weeks ago, I noticed something interesting in the selection criteria. Wine Spectator doesn’t visit the restaurants that they’re passing out awards to. They take applications. A restaurant sends in their menu, wine list, and a [...]
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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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You’ve scanned the wine list over and over and picked out a few bottles that you might like to have with your smoked salmon or roasted duck or whatever. Maybe you’re sticking with a go-to varietal. Maybe tonight you’re going to try [...]
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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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We were lucky enough to get a chance to eat at Carpaccio’s Tuscan Grill this week as part of their Friends and Family hookup.
They have a solid wine list featuring several sub-$40 Italian wines. My party started with a Dolcetto, the 2004 Torremorro, and then followed that with a Sangiovese from Umbria. I [...]
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