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Top 5 Wines of 2009

Haven’t been doing a lot of top 5 lists lately. Will have to get back into that…
…right now!
I wrote this up in the waning days in December 2009, then realized that I had some good Champagnes queued up for the News Years Eve festivities. Better to wait until 2009 is officially over to [...]

Top 5 Wines of 2008

2009 cometh, and that means it’s time to shoot through the graveyard of empty bottles pick out my favorites from this past year. The rules are the same as last year: these are my favorite five wines that I owned and drank in 2008. I’ve tasted lots more, but you know how things [...]

Drink Local Wine! Revisiting My Favorite Maryland Wines So Far This Year

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 [...]

Top 5 Reasons Why Your Wine Bar Stinks

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 [...]

Top 5 Reasons…

…why Landmark Harbor East is the nicest theater I’ve ever been in.
5) The seats and armrests are very comfortable.  Big, leather(ish), rockable.
4) The theater we were in isn’t huge.  It’s wide, but only about ten rows deep.  That lessens the chance that your seated in front of people who talk through the whole movie…
3) Nobody [...]

Top 5 Wines In the Virginia Wine Showcase

I didn’t get to taste everything, so this isn’t a comprehensive Best In Show. We’ll just call it Best of What I Tasted.
The BWIT: 2002 Kluge Estate – New World Red. A fruit forward wine but the fruit is starting to fade as this was bottled a few years ago. This was [...]

Top 5 Wines of 2007

These are the top 5 wines that I owned and drank in 2007. I only keep notes on wines own and drink, not from wines taste. For some reason when I taste wines, they usually work better than when I have a glass of the stuff later in my home. Plus, after about [...]

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