Via the Washington Post’s All We Can Eat blog, it looks like Bethesda Central Farmer’s Market will soon carry wines from Baltimore County-based Basignani Winery (aside: Basignani, how are you still embedding music on your website in 2010?). This news is SO NEW that you won’t even find and information about it on the winery or [...]
There is a new wave of wine shops braking rank with the typical “bland elegance” you find in new wine shops. At least, that’s the point that The Pour is making. In the process, writer Eric Asimov puts into words something that I’ve been trying to figure out how to articulate. Americans today are bombarded [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user protographer23 Last week, Wine Business broke the sad news that uber-retailer Amazon is ending their push into the online wine retailing space. This comes on the heels of the much quieter news that Costco.com is ending their online wine sales. These two companies, Amazon and Costco, total $92 [...]
One issue that Wine 2.0 is struggling with is normalization of wine names. Is that a 2006 Arlaud Pere & Fils – Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes 1er Cru (Vieilles Vignes) you’re drinking, or is it simply a 2006 Arlaud – Gevrey-Chambertin? Are they the same wine? What’s with all these words on the label? What if [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user killthebird The path of the wine collector is littered with cases of remorse and magnums of regret. These missteps pile up in a subterranean warehouse in San Francisco and sit in the friendly confines of perfect storage conditions. Neglect comes from many factors: case purchases that weren’t as [...]
Finally made it by The Wine Source in Hampden last week for their Rhone Rangers tasting. The Wine Source runs these things all the time: five or six wines poured for free in store. While tasting, I wandered around the store snapping pics on my worthless cell phone camera. The requisite Avalon Cabernet. This is [...]
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 go when [...]
Spirits of Mount Vernon is a nice, spacious place to sit around and enjoy the light coming in through the huge glass windows at the front of the store. No chairs to sit around in, though, so, I got on surveying the wine around the store. They have a lot of regions represented, but not [...]
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 organized by [...]
Popped into D’Vines Wine Shop which just opened in the newly uppity Columbia Heights neighborhood. The shop is small but represents all of the major regions fairly well. There looked like an emphasis on Australians and there was a whole section devoted to Argentina and Chile. I asked for a recommendation on a Malbec and [...]
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