Gifts for Literate Wine (and Food) Lovers
Rabelais Books, a terrific bookstore in Portland, Maine, that specializes in books about food and wine (surprising how we love that around here, huh?) has released its first catalogue of rare and antiquarian food, wine and spirits books. It's gre...
Corktastic
There's a very amusing post over at Dr. Vino about what one can do with leftover corks—I'm particularly fond of the cork castle with the Obama action figure on the balcony, but there are a number of other nifty options. And if none of t...
World's Most Famous Chef Brews Beer
Actually, I can't say for certain that Ferran Adria of El Bulli in Spain is the world's most famous che, but he's certainly up there; and in terms of influence, he's definitely at the top of the heap. So it was a privilege to have him...
Crazy Wine Jobs, #1
If you're bored, unemployed, or just have a whimsical attitude towards life, you should check out this job offer/contest/who knows what at Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma. Apparently, they'll be paying $10,000 a month for six months to an as-ye...
The Season's Best Sake
The traditional harbingers of spring have finally arrived—asparagus at the farmers’ markets, cherry blossoms bursting all over the city—but one that might not be on your radar, and should be, is spring sake, or nama. Roughly the sak...
WineCountry.com: Events (Courtesy of WineCountry.com)
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Auction Benefit A martini and wine bar live auction gourmet meal and exciting performance await at...
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Celebration Celebrate The 4th of July with an evening of live music bar b que friends...
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Benefit Join the Bay Area s top restaurants and wineries Winery at Silverado Resort in Napa...
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Exhibition The upstairs gallery at St Supery Winery in Rutherford CA will feature an exhibit and...
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Food Education We meet at Napa s farmers market to purchase our provisions then a private...
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Gallup: “On Mars, They Drink Beer; on Venus, Wine”
If an alien landed in a room full American wine drinkers, it would meet mostly college educated, AARP eligible women, probably not from the midwest. There would be relatively few men aged 18 (!) to 49. So says the polling group, Gallup. Almost.In their annual survey of how and what American drinks, the smokin’ [...]
Where in the wine world are we? Picturesque but marginal edition
We haven’t done one of these for a while. But a site reader thought he could stump everyone with this shot from his travels (click to enlarge). As a clue, he writes “while this vineyard is in among the more picturesque parts of the region, it’s by no means the part of the region you [...]
Bottles as bricks, jugs, sprawl, Holy wine – sipped and spit
SIPPED: reusing wine bottlesWe like reusing corks. And we previously saw the 13,500 bottle wall house previously. And recently another bottle wall surfaced on reddit (though it may not be wine bottles). If this trend keeps up, a winery may soon make the equivalent of Heineken’s WOBO bottle, a brick masquerading as a bottle! [...]
Wine prices – beating the spread online and in-store
One of my friends told me that he recently was looking to get three bottles of one Chateauneuf du Pape. He found it online for $47.99 at a store in New Jersey, coincidentally, near where his mother lives. So he called the store and asked them to hold three bottles for his mom to pick [...]
Spot the 62 pointer – Viu 1 from Chile – and some Spanish
What does a 62 point wine taste like? Not that I follow scores for wine very much, but a 62 pointer? Man, that had to suck. Or, conversely, if you disagree with the critic giving the score, perhaps it was fantastic?Daniel Posner (above, right), owner of the wine store Grapes The Wine Company, [...]
