Just last week, regarding Bordeaux futures, I mentioned that “You’re going to see some Bordeaux estates up for sale before the decade is out.” Well, be it from distress or just selling high, First Growth Megabux Chateau Latour is up for sale.
Over at myvinespot.com, Dezel posted about a recent tasting at Whole Foods in Fairfax. [...]
Anytime I ask the family what I can bring to Thanksgiving dinner, I always get the same response:
“Bring some wine!”
It makes sense. I’m the family “wine guy” carrying on the tradition of my aunt. Not counting the wee-ones, I’m the youngest and I’m a guy, so the automatic assumption is that I can’t [...]
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One of the instructions reads “Do not deliver to an intoxicated person.” Glad they got it to me before noon.
This box represents the last of my wines that I had in storage out on the west coast. Having wines in off site storage isn’t uncommon out west or in New York, but around [...]
My former colleague Doug Wilder has launched his new blog here. Add his blog to your respective reader if you are at all interested in small-production, hard to find, and awesome to drink wine from California, Oregon, and Washington. Doug has personal relationships with many vinters up and down the Pacific Coast and [...]
Thanks to both Jamie and Jon for posting while I was gone. Go check out Complaint Hub for your D.C. related blogginess and Marketing, Finance, and Obama for your effervescent marketing analysis.
For the past two weeks I’ve been gallivanting through Central and Eastern Europe with The Wife. Our trip took us [...]
I’m stepping out for a little bit. I scheduled a few posts for next week to jam up your RSS reader and invited a few good friends to come in and guest post in my absence. Jon from Complaint Hub and Jamie from Marketing, Finance, and Obama will provide some content that is [...]
The Wine Source in Hamden has some nice Friday wine tastings coming up. The first is tonight from 4:30 to 7:30 and again tomorrow from 1:30 to 5:30.
We have selected wines that descend out of a variety of appellations from both the Northern and Southern Rhone in order to highlight the diversity [...]
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Tom Shelton, president of Joseph Phelps Vineyards from 1995 to 2007, passed away Saturday night. I only had the chance to meet Tom once, but I remember him being very friendly and accommodating towards me. Given that the event we were attending was hosted by him and was filled with lots of important [...]
Took out my half bottle from the freezer last night and finished off the frozen wine experiment that I started back when I drank the Erik’s Big Zin from Basignani. The picture is of the wine thawing out on my counter with the frost developing on the outside (the only empty half bottle I [...]
