Purple Teeth Begone
Oh, the exciting life of the wine writer. Recently the wine department received samples of a new product called Wine Wipes. To quote the flackery, "The gentle orange-blossom flavored Wine Wipes quickly and easily remove the stain and clean the p...
Highlights from the Foxwoods Food & Wine Festival
I've had a flurry of flying around the US in the past couple of weeks, which is going to have to serve as my excuse for not posting much on this blog. But this past weekend, instead, I took the train up to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut for the F...
Didier Dagueneau, A Great Loss
According to the Louis/Dressner website, Didier Dagueneau died this morning in a plane crash in the Cognac region. Dagueneau was the wildly-bearded wizard of the Loire wine world, as well as a brilliant winemaker; his Cuvée Silex Pouilly-Fum...
More Wine Weirdness: Kami no Shizuku
Thanks to the perspicacious Alder Yarrow over at Vinography, I now have a better idea of who my competition is, out there in the world of wine punditry. Somehow, though, I never expected it to be a character in a Japanese comic book. Kami no Shizuku ...
Great Wine (and Food) Bookstore: Rabelais Books
I spent the past weekend in Portland, Maine, which quickly earned my respect as one of the best food towns around—especially if you weigh the number of terrific restaurants there against the actual population, which is about 230,000 (greater me...
WineCountry.com: Events (Courtesy of WineCountry.com)
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Wine Education Come to Back Room Wines and enjoy seven of the freshest zingiest distinctive wines...
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Wine Education Come to Back Room Wines this Friday night and meet & taste with three...
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Food & Wine Education It s an awesome tasting of Dr Loosen wines and dinner too...
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Wine Education Come to Back Room Wines this Friday night and taste six of the best...
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Wine Education Visit Back Room Wines this Friday night and enjoy a selection of Italian wines...
Dr. Vino's Wine Blog
Wine investments, turmoil, Portugal, tropical wines - sipped and spit
SPIT: financial turmoilMike Steinberger provides some advance evidence that the financial crisis will not upend America’s fifteen year bull market–for wine consumption. But the make-or-break fourth quarter has just started! Stay tuned, and keep pulling corks. [Slate]SIPPED: wine investment (alpacas optional)The WSJ finds a stay-at-home dad who has sunk $120k into 400 bottles of 1996 [...]
HOWTO: successfully check wine on a plane
After two bad wine travel experiences this summer, I finally got it right about ten days ago. Returning by plane from a business trip to the Windy City, I found myself unencumbered by either checked baggage or children. Thus the time was right to return to the storage locker that I couldn’t empty when we [...]
The candidates and their wines - a Wine Politics giveaway
Last week we heard about the Palin syrah and because it’s organically grown in Chile, we knew it was the perfect wine for the veep wannabe, Sarah Paleen (as they say in Alaska, methinks). Check out reader Nate’s tasting note.In anticipation of this Thursday’s debate (when we will need mucho vino), put your country [...]
OMG the stock market is still crashing! Whither wine - redux!
Back in January, we ran a poll after a rough patch in the markets asking about how a downturn would affect your wine purchases. Ah, what a different era that seems! Everyone was saying that the economy was fundamentally sound (oh wait, for some that was also just a few weeks ago), we barely knew [...]
Clo wine bar - when the wine is self service, do you tip?
Strolling between the burnished steel Enomatic machines, with their bottles behind (plexi)glass and only dispensing nozzles poking through I thought the high-tech Clo wine bar seemed like a reasonable place. Selections included Dr. Konstantin Frank’s Rkatsiteli ($5), Domaine Tempier rose ($9), Nicolas Potel Savigny-les-Beaune ($11), Chateau Musar 1990 white and red ($33 and $30 respectively), [...]
