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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Sloughing our way through Dulles airport to our gate to take off to Frankfurt, I was happy to see a Vino Volo tasting bar sitting right next to our gate. Vino Volo began a push into airports in 2006 is up to nine locations including one each in Baltimore Washington International and Washington Dulles. [...]
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 [...]
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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The Wife and I ate at Junior’s Wine Bar in Federal Hill a few months back and the experience was mediocre and fell short of the snoty-tooty blogworthy standards of this Blog. Nothing was bad, but nothing blew me out of my chair and into my Merlot.
Things changed last week when I got a call [...]
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Right on the main drag as you come into Rehoboth Beach sits a little gem of a wine bar. The Wife and I stopped in there Thursday night and were both pleasantly surprised.
The three staffers that were on hand were all completely knowledgeable about wine. Being Dogfish Head transplants, they also knew their beers. There [...]
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I’m in San Francisco this week working with my employer and attending nerd fest 2008 on Wednesday and Thursday.
Before all this I went to a wedding, drank too much, and eventually ended up back at Dell’Uva, one of my favorite wine bars in the city. Sitting just off the main drag in North Beach, [...]
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 [...]
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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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Dropped into Charlotte’s in Federal Hill on Wednesday night to see a friend of a friend play some tunes. Turns out that, despite all appearances to the contrary, Charlotte’s runs wine tastings every Wednesday starting around 7pm. You get 5 wines for $5.25, each selected around a certain theme for the flight. [...]
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