About a month ago, I had the distinct pleasure to attend a preview event for what promises to be the next big thing (pun intended) on the Maryland wine scene: Washington County’s Big Cork Vineyards, a collaboration between the Thompson family (of Thompson Gas fame) and Virginia wine all-star Dave Collins (formerly of Breaux Vineyards). [...]
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 [...]
Despite the 100+ temperatures, I trekked from Columbia to Carroll County to bring you this report from the newly-inaugurated Carroll Wine Trail, which officially opened on July 7. All three wineries in the trail – Cygnus, Galloping Goose, and Serpent Ridge – are relatively new on the scene but are doing great things. More importantly, [...]
Two weeks after the first major Maryland wine festival of the year – Wine in the Woods – I headed out to scenic Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay for the aptly named Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival. Since this is also a Maryland Wine Association-sponsored festival, many of the same wineries appeared on the guest [...]
What’s the problem? The issue at hand is that wine consumers in Maryland cannot order a bottle of wine from an out of state retailer and have it shipped to their house. This is because Maryland law dictates that alcohol retailing in Maryland flows through the Three Tier System: producer-distributor-retailer-(you) For more on the three [...]
It’s Drink Local Wine‘s second annual Regional Wine Week. My wine rack is comepltely bare of any local wines, so how about we do like a sitcom and run a clips show with the two best and two worst local notes I’ve taken over the past year. The interesting thing about this note… Very light [...]
Running Diary from the 2009 Maryland Wine Festival on Sunday, September 20. 12:45 – Arrive to the festival. It’s already pretty crowded for an event that started at noon. Lines to get in were epic, so noted to come earlier next year. Marylanders for Better Beer and Wine Laws are out in force, getting mailing [...]
I popped the 2007 Elk Run Viognier with some burgers off the grill. We were lucky enough to be grilling on one of the few nights lately that it didn’t rain. The wine was nice. Good citrus fruit, medium bodied. Lots of acidity that was sort of all over the place. A great wine to [...]
April 26, 2009, 1 – 6 pm Highlandtown Wine Festival, Baltimore, MD. $20 in advance gets you goats, bocce, and some of the best homebrew wines this side of Italy. I’ll be there working and pouring some wines. Info April 25-26, 2009, 12 – 6 pm Great Grapes! Wine, Arts and Food Reston Town Center, [...]
Taverna Corvino, the restaurant the replaced Junior’s in Federal Hill, is open. Beer in Baltimore has some scoop. I stoped by before opening today and perused the bar menu, a range of appetizers in the $6-$9 range, as well as cheese plates (three cheeses $11); dinners reportedly hover around $16-25. Grape Leaves Online reports that [...]
