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 [...]
Finally got the chance to get over to Harbor East and visit Bin 604. Bin 604 was managed and owned for several years by Wine Advocate reviewer Dr. Jay Miller (has has since ended his relationship with the shop). Still, the influence is there, with the only shelf talker scores coming from the Wine Advocate. [...]
Amazon.com, Internet purveyors of…. well, everything, are looking to expand that universe by beginning to sell wine. Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer, whom it says will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new product selection” for its site. The wine sales will augment a rapidly expanding non-perishable groceries business [...]
I’ve been holding off posting on The Wine Market for some time because I hadn’t eaten dinner there. The retail wine shop is small and cozy with two aisles with a wide range of affordable stuff under $10 and some high end First Growths high at the top of the shelves. If you’re looking for [...]
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