Kyle McNichols of Palate Press sees the silver lining in accidents. This might get me into my local wine shop more, since I don’t have a whole lot of reason to go in. Honestly, I’ve had a very mixed experience with the clearance aisle. Our local wine and liquor shop will coordinate wine tastings on Friday and [...]
“Cheap, gross, oily, swill, garbage, lame, snobby, trash, syrupy, only good for a buzz, local wine is not. If you like dry, dessert, red, white, chilled, mulled, varietal, blended, fruit, sparkling, dandelion, mead, boxed, bottled, homemade, or anything in between, stems up! Maryland has wine for you.” Local bloggers are celebrating Regional Wine Week, an outgrowth [...]
Although I’ll have to work for it. I finally found information about volunteering at the Maryland Wine Festival next month, which again, I highly recommend (my tendency to say yes to volunteer gigs between the Potomac and the Mason-Dixon aside). While I’m not always a big people person, the chance to interact with people who [...]
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 [...]
Heard on @fiorewinery 21% off a case, serious stuff. None of this 10% nonsense that we’re normally accustomed to. Nor is it a sham where a store raises prices, then discounts from those inflated prices. Pick up a case to stock your cellar throughout the holidays. Better yet, if you’re in sales or some other [...]
First boxed wine, then screwcaps, now this. Baltimore Sun reports that Maryland wineries and restaurants are thinking plastic bottles might be the way to go instead of big, clunky, impossible to efficiently ship glass. Quoth the article: “The wine doesn’t know what package it is in,” said W. R. Tish, a wine educator who writes [...]
Murphy-Goode, a winery located in Sonoma’s Alexander Valley, was faced with a problem that lots of small businesses grapple with: how to get on the social media train that so many people are yammering about. They did the smart thing and set out to hire someone who is plugged into this sort of thing. So [...]
Savoy-Lee Winery near Smith Mountain Lake is up for sale, asking price is $1.79 million. Looks like a turnkey opportunity for someone who wanted to own a winery. Tasting room, offices, and wine making supplies: it’s all there. From the post on OWC. …located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains on 117 acres, [...]
“How low is your net worth?” has become something of a recent social phenomenon. Just as people bragged about their (and their neighbors’) victories in the ballooing real estate market earlier this decade, people now almost celebrate how bad their 401(K) statements look. We’re at the point now where almost any story in any media [...]
